Intel Showcases Core I9-12900K With 16 Cores, Competes With AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Performance!

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YOGYAKARTA - It's been a few weeks that rumors of the emergence of the 12th Generation Intel platform have spread. According to rumors, the platform, named Alder Lake, is intended to compete directly with CPUs made by AMD Ryzen.

While both tech enthusiasts and tech geeks were made to wait, the company suddenly showed off its newest platform. Citing Forbes, the platform called the Core i9-12900K comes with 16 cores and hybrid technology.

Initial information related to Intel's new platform was first shared by Chinese forum site Zhihu and shared by Videocardz. From the images that spread, we can see information that appears to be specs based on examples addressed to Intel partners recently.

These new CPUs, including the Core i9-12900K, Core i7-12700K, and Core i5-1260K, each feature a Hybrid core. That is, composed of a smaller, power-efficient core and a higher-frequency core that is larger and more powerful.

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The adoption of a hybrid core allows the CPU to maintain a high level of performance while keeping the load light. The reason is, parts called 'Big Core' and 'Small Core' are able to handle light tasks to increase power consumption.

In fact, according to the experience of many users, it is also possible to work on several tasks at once. Or, in a more general language, multi-tasking performance will be lighter and lighter.

Citing Videocardz's description, the Core i9-12900K offers eight cores of each type. So, a total of 16 cores have been installed by the company on this new platform.

This number is double that of the current version, namely the Core i9-11900K. Meanwhile, the Core i7-12700K version will most likely only have a total of 12 processing cores. The number also increases when compared to the eight cores owned by the Core i7-11700K.

Head to Head with AMD Ryzen

Many parties welcome this technological improvement with great enthusiasm. Moreover, now AMD Ryzen is also sticking out as a dark horse that many users are starting to notice.

Currently, AMD has its own advantages in desktop devices thanks to the Ryzen 12 CPU which is equipped with 16 cores. Meanwhile, the latest version, the Ryzen 9 5950 X, is equipped with more cores than the Core i9-11900K. In fact, up to twice as much!

The advantage of the number of embedded cores certainly has a big effect on processing speed and device performance. As a result, users can feel a laptop that is faster and lighter even if it is used for multitasking.

On the other hand, Intel seems to be putting a lot of effort into adding more cores in desktop CPUs. You see, closely related to the time required in the transition to 10nm processing turned out to run longer.

In fact, the company was forced to cut the core from the supposed 10nm design for the Core i9-11900. The cuts are aimed at making way back to 14nm manufacturing when 10nm manufacturing isn't doing well.