The Intel 12th Gen Core i9-12900K Review: Hybrid Performance Brings Hybrid Complexity
by Dr. Ian Cutress & Andrei Frumusanu on November 4, 2021 9:00 AM ESTCPU Performance: Windows 11 vs Windows 10
There are going to be a lot of Windows 11 vs Windows 10 testing over the next few months, based on different CPUs, chipsets, configurations, and even situations where CPUs are replaced and drivers need to be reinstalled to get full performance. Windows 11 is still young, and most of our tests worked (WSL did not, will need to find out why). In this instance both OS installs were fresh and default with all updates and updated drivers. We haven't had time to run our gaming tests, those should come soon.
Windows 11 has a small effect on some of our Multi-Threaded tests, such as y-cruncher, Speedometer, and AES, but for the most part it's quite minimal.
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Zzzoom - Thursday, November 4, 2021 - link
You're gullible enough to forget that AMD raised its margins as soon as it got the lead with Zen 3.lejeczek - Thursday, November 4, 2021 - link
And you are ready! to convince everybody... that whole freaking plandemic & communists mafia had nothing to do with prices gone up across the board. Good man!Spunjji - Friday, November 5, 2021 - link
"plandemic"🙄
"communists mafia"
🤦♂️
Qasar - Friday, November 5, 2021 - link
zzzoom, so in other words, intel kept raising its prices when they had the lead, but its NOT ok for amd to raise its prices when they have the lead ? so who is gullible ?amd had the right to raise its prices, after all intel did it.
madseven7 - Saturday, November 6, 2021 - link
You're gullible enough to forget that Intel raised prices for every generation of cpu's and chipsets.karmapop - Thursday, November 4, 2021 - link
This is a market economy. Neither company cares about your emotional attachments or misgivings beyond what is profitable for them. AMD as the market underdog played up that position heavily, gaining significant goodwill with the enthusiast consumer market. However as Zzzoom mentioned just as is expected as soon as they retook the performance dominant position their aggressive pricing strategy evaporated.If you're going to criticize Intel's market stagnation via mismangement for a decade you can't just ignore the fiasco of AMD's awful Bulldozer architecture and the 4.5 year gap between the launch of Piledriver and the launch of Zen 1. It's not unreasonable to make the argument that because Intel absolutely needed AMD to remain around at that time to avoid facing anti-trust issues, the lack of any real competitive alternative is a factor in their decision to stagnate as just 'greed'.
yeeeeman - Thursday, November 4, 2021 - link
AMD has been doing the same starting with Zen 3, so spare me with this...deathBOB - Thursday, November 4, 2021 - link
And they should be punished for correcting those problems?heickelrrx - Thursday, November 4, 2021 - link
AMD did since they make FX series so badStop blaming Intel alon for market segmentation AMD being not competitive also part of it
Spunjji - Friday, November 5, 2021 - link
FX series was as bad as it was for a couple of reasons - partly because AMD were starved of funding during the entire Athlon 64 era, and partly because Global Foundries utterly failed to develop their fabrication processes to be suitable for high-performance CPUs.