Sep 2nd 2021 Possible Intel 12th Gen Core Pricing Leaked, i9-12900K Costs 741€ (65).Jan 1st 2021 Intel Core i9-11900K CPU-Z Benchmark Score Leaks (184).Mar 16th 2021 Intel Launches 11th Gen Core 'Rocket Lake': Unmatched Overclocking and Gaming Performance (254).Jul 21st 2021 Intel Core i9-12900K Allegedly Beats AMD Ryzen 9 5950X at Cinebench R20 (155).The single-precision and double-precision 'Scientific Analysis' tests, which again are multi-threaded, see 26 percent and 32 percent performance gains over the i7-7700K, respectively. 'Processor cryptography' sees a 12 percent increase. These two test-suites are multi-threaded, and hence benefit from the two added cores, which in turn add four additional logical CPUs, thanks to HyperThreading. There is a 45 percent increase in performance, in the 'processor arithmetic' test and a 47 percent increase in the 'processor multimedia' test. This six-core chip was compared to the product it succeeds in Intel's MSDT product-stack, the quad-core Core i7-7700K.

The Core i7-8700K is the top-dog of the 8th generation Core mainstream-desktop processor family. Since the 'Coffee Lake' micro-architecture is essentially a refresh of the 'Skylake' architecture, single-threaded performance increases could be attributed to higher clock speeds. A bulk of these performance increases are attributed to the increasing core-count over generation, which directly yields higher multi-threaded performance while a small but significant portion of it is attributed to increases in single-threaded performance. The results put to the test Intel's claims of 'over 40 percent more performance' compared to the 7th generation Core processors, which the company made in its 8th Generation Core Launch Event presentation. Ahead of their launch later this quarter, SiSoft SANDRA benchmarks of Intel 8th generation Core i7-8700K and Core i5-8400 six-core processors surfaced in benchmark databases, which were promptly compared to their predecessors by HotHardware.

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