"The i9 12900K put in a score of 11,632, which isn’t far off week’s guesstimate of 11,300. That’s very nearly double the 6,419 achieved by the preceding i9 11900K Rocket Lake flagship, while being the 11th fastest CPU tested, only falling behind Xeon, Epyc, and Threadripper processors."

 

https://www.pcgamesn.com/intel/i9-12900k-benchmark-vs-rocket-lake

Interesting. I noticed the 12700K vs the 11700K there wasn’t as drastic a rise as the aforementioned comparison. Definitely something to keep an eye on. 

Just Hope the 1000 Dollar plus price tag is just a place marker.

That and a 4090 should be a good 5 grand sim build 🤑.

Edited July 23, 20214 yr by G-RFRY

3 hours ago, G-RFRY said:

Just Hope the 1000 Dollar plus price tag is just a place marker.

 

Seriously hope so. 😞

Of absolutely no value without availability of a GPU that offers somewhere within a light year of the same performance capability.

30 minutes ago, fppilot said:

Of absolutely no value without availability of a GPU that offers somewhere within a light year of the same performance capability.

 

Some us have got one though. 😊 We are the elite, the masters of the universe.

 

Edited July 23, 20214 yr by martin-w

Something else to read re 12900K. It's an interesting new CPU design.

 

"The Intel Core i9-12900K will be the flagship chip in the 12th Gen Alder Lake Desktop CPU lineup. It will feature 8 Golden Cove cores and 8 Gracemont cores for a total of 16 cores (8+8) and 24 threads (16+8). The P-cores (Golden Cove) will operate at a maximum boost frequency of up to 5.3 GHz with 1-2 active cores and 5.0 GHz with all-cores active while the E-cores (Gracemont) will operate at 3.90 GHz across 1-4 cores and up to 3.7 GHz when all cores are loaded. The CPU will feature 30 MB of L3 cache and TDP values are maintained at 125W (PL1) and 228W (PL2)."

 

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Core-i9-12900K-benchmark-leak-puts-the-Alder-Lake-S-way-beyond-the-capabilities-of-the-AMD-Ryzen-9-5950X-while-embarrassing-the-Core-i9-11900K-and-Core-i9-10900K.551705.0.html

Edited July 23, 20214 yr by martin-w

7 hours ago, martin-w said:

 

Some us have got one though. 😊 We are the elite, the masters of the universe.

 

And it`s going to cost some too stay there next year.

Edited July 23, 20214 yr by G-RFRY

22 hours ago, martin-w said:

 

Some us have got one though. 😊 We are the elite, the masters of the universe.

 

I am a master of nothing, but I am a jack of all trades. 😁

No 12900K for me, my new computer has a 10700 and that seems to be enough for FSX, should be  enough for P3D and/or MSFS, should I ever decide to go that route.

On 7/23/2021 at 4:02 AM, G-RFRY said:

 

That and a 4090 should be a good 5 grand sim build 🤑.

If there are parts available lol

Well AMD now have a problem.

AMD Epyc CPUs have a flaw that exposes the Secure Processor under virtualization (guru3d.com)

1 hour ago, G-RFRY said:

Well AMD now have a problem.

AMD Epyc CPUs have a flaw that exposes the Secure Processor under virtualization (guru3d.com)

I doubt there is mass amounts of concern on the enterprise side after reading the last line of the article

"Physical access to hardware is required". With physical access to any hardware people could do what they want in most instances anyhow.

I'm watching closely.  I plan on doing a re-build of my rig in the next 12 months.  Will have skipped 2 cpu generations.  

My AMD 3900x copes quite well with MSFS, especially after SU5 but still there is that main thread limitation. Intel usually has higher clock speeds and if Alderlake can maintain >5 ghz on all 8 cores while keeping it cool that would be a nice upgrade.
I am most curious whether the power-efficient cores still function when the high-performence cores are running at full speed. If they are, they could take care of all background processes freeing up the performance cores just for the flightsim. Now thát might be a good implementation of the Game Mode in Windows.

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