Core i9-12900K will be available as soon as early next month:
Although Intel has not publicly announced the launch date of the Core i9-12900K, some retailers have already begun to accept reservations for the fastest model in the 12th generation Core.
The Core i9-12900KS base frequency is 3.4GHz and the maximum turbo frequency is 5.5GHz, which is 200MHz and 300MHz higher than the i9-12900K, respectively, and the corresponding PBP base power consumption (PL1) and MTP maximum turbo power consumption (PL2) are also increased by 25 watts and 19 watts, respectively. According to the ShopBLT website, the Core i9-12900KS skew is expected to arrive on March 3, and the current scheduled price is $780.79, or about 4945 yuan.
The boxed Core i9-12900KS is expected to arrive in 3 weeks, and the current scheduled price is $791.74, or about 5014 yuan.
While many i9-12900Ks should be able to achieve performance similar to the i9-12900KS after overclocking, the latter is simpler to use and does not lose the warranty due to overclocking.
DG2 Game Exclusive Release in Q2:
The DG2 game monophony (codenamed Arc Alchemist), which requires external foundry, has undergone a series of extensions, and intel confirmed at the 2022 Investor Conference that it will be available in the second quarter of this year.
Specifically, the Alchemist will be available in three phases, starting with the mobile version launched in the first quarter, the desktop version in the second quarter, and the workstation card in the third quarter. Intel's roadmap shows that The Alchemist GPU will be paired with the 12th generation Core Alder Lake and the 13th generation Core Raptor Lake, the next generation Battlemage GPU will be paired with the 14th generation Core Meteor Lake and the 15th generation Core GPU, and the next generation of Elite GPU has also begun to be developed.
A video trailer also shows that the data center GPU code-named Arctic Sound-M will also be based on the Xe-HPG architecture.
This single-slot, 8-PIN-assisted accelerator card supports hardware-based AV1 encoding, providing a 30% bandwidth boost to support applications such as video transcoding and cloud gaming.
Intel said the Arctic Sound-M will ship in mid-2022.
Intel plans to ship more than 4 million GPUs in 2022, including data from multiple architecture GPUs for Xe-LP, Xe-HPG, and Xe-HPC.