Testseek.com have collected 42 expert reviews of the Intel Core i9 12900KS 3.40GHz Socket 1700 and the average rating is 75%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Intel Core i9 12900KS 3.40GHz Socket 1700.
April 2022
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42 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
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Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Best In Class Performance
Excels In Variety Of Workloads
High Responsiveness / Low Latency
Feature Rich Platform
World's fastest gaming processor confirmed
Performance improved
Adds Thermal Velocity Boost
Adaptive Boost
Support for DDR5 and PCI-Express 5.0
Also supports DDR4
Multiplier unlocked
Integrated graphics
10 nanometer production process
Faster clocks than "ordinary" Core i9-12900K
Including 5
5GHz peak on two cores
16-core design
Unlike competing Ryzen 9s
Nifty collectors' tin
Fastest gaming CPU
The editors didn't like
Price Premium
Relatively High Power Consumption
Very high heat output / power usage
Great cooling required
Large price increase over Core i9-12900K
Overall gains only minimal
Some workloads get scheduled onto wrong cores
No CPU cooler included
Integrated graphics not good enough for serious gamin
Runs very hot
Big price premium over Core i9-12900K for modest gains
Summarizing this review, the Core i9-12900KS is a very fast chip when it comes strict to performance. But overall we find it something of a mixed bag, and perhaps foolishy, we expected a little more.The Core i9-12900KS has a 1K per unit price of $739 but...
Published: 2022-06-15, Author: Michael , review by: pcmag.com
Faster clocks than "ordinary" Core i9-12900K, including 5,5GHz peak on two cores, 16-core design, Integrated graphics, unlike competing Ryzen 9s, Nifty collectors' tin
Runs very hot, Big price premium over Core i9-12900K for modest gains, Demands robust, high-end cooling
Abstract: Intel certainly has been on a roll lately. 10nm Intel 7 node manufacturing process (finally) in full swing. 12th Generation Core I-series (with its paradigm shifting Big.Little hybrid approach to mainstream processor design) selling as fast as they hit re...
Published: 2022-04-21, Author: Dave , review by: pcgamer.com
Fastest gaming CPU
Unnecessarily more expensive than the 12900K, Just a binsorted chip, Draws a huge amount of power as standard
With Silicon Lottery shutting down, at least Intel is offering its own hyper expensive bin sorted chips. And that's about the most positive thing I can say about this just about fastest gaming CPU around...
Published: 2022-04-13, Author: Tom , review by: overclock3d.net
It seems to be the month for slightly refined versions of already existing products. We've only just looked at the Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti which was an RTX 3090 with a slight boost to the clock speeds and a little more hardware under the hood. That product, th...
Published: 2022-04-05, Author: Steven , review by: techspot.com
Abstract: The Core i9-12900KS is a new, but also not that new CPU from Intel. We reviewed the 12900K when it was released about six months ago and were very impressed with its performance. It was a great showcase for the Alder Lake architecture, though it was a hot...
World's fastest gaming processor confirmed, Performance improved, Adds Thermal Velocity Boost, Adaptive Boost, Support for DDR5 and PCI-Express 5.0, Also supports DDR4, Multiplier unlocked, Integrated graphics, 10 nanometer production process
Very high heat output / power usage, Great cooling required, Large price increase over Core i9-12900K, Overall gains only minimal, Some workloads get scheduled onto wrong cores, No CPU cooler included, Integrated graphics not good enough for serious gamin
The Intel Core i9-12900KS will start selling next week for $750-$800. The Intel price for 1k-quantities is $739. World's fastest gaming processor confirmed Performance improved Adds Thermal Velocity Boost, Adaptive Boost Support for DDR5 and PCI-Express...
The bottom line for the 12900KS is it's a slightly higher performing variant of an Alder Lake Core i9. It outpaces the 12900K in almost every scenario, just as expected.On the flip, I'm going to say most 12900K processors can or can get very close to runn...
Published: 2022-05-01, Author: Leo , review by: kitguru.net
Stunning performance, Z690 platform with DDR5 can handle almost anything,
So much power, so much heat, BIOS support is patchy, The value-for-money argument is awful,
We fully expected the Core i9-12900KS would draw too much power and produce too much heat, however we did not predict the results that we saw.Gigabyte fed the CPU with 250W, which is in line with Intel's specification, and the performance was fairly lousy...
