The news broke that Intel's 12th-generation Alder Lake processor will have a "-F" derivative model without a nuclear display

@Komachi_Ensaka just broke the news on Twitter that the chip giant Intel 's upcoming 12th-generation Alder Lake-S desktop processor has a "-F" derivative model without a nuclear display. Friends who are familiar with Intel’s CPU naming rules will obviously not be unfamiliar with the suffixes of “-K” and “-KF”-the former does not lock frequency, but retains the core display unit; the latter usually has stronger performance potential and further Cut off the nuclear display unit.

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As a familiar old man, @Komachi_Ensaka's accuracy of historical revelations is also quite high. Surprising As for, we are not surprised by the "-KF" version of Intel's 12th-generation Alder Lake-S desktop processor.

Compared with non-F processors, -KF models have the same number of cores/threads, and base/turbo clock. However, by cutting off the integrated Xe core display, -KF derivative models are usually priced slightly lower and have greater performance potential.

If the news is reliable, Intel will provide the following -KF processor SKUs:

● Core i9-12900KF

● Core i7-12700KF

● Core i5-12600KF

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For consumers of Core i9-12900K, the probability of using integrated graphics is also very small. Usually the whole machine will be equipped with high-end graphics cards such as NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT.

Rather than wasting money on the Xe nuclear display, which is tasteless and a pity to abandon,It is better to purchase the -KF derivative model without nuclear display in one step. At the same time, Intel also plans to launch the first ARC discrete graphics card code-named "Alchemist" in the first quarter of 2022.

Speaking of the core design of Alder Lake-S, Intel uses a unique hybrid architecture on the 12th-generation processor platform, integrating high-performance P core (Golden Cove) and energy-saving E core (Gracemont architecture), In order to take into account the performance of various situations.

However, only the P core supports hyper-threading, so we will see the strange specifications of 16 cores / 24 threads on CPU SKUs such as i9-12900K.

According to the Geekbench benchmark results exposed earlier, i9-12900K has a slight advantage over AMD Zen 3 Ryzen R9-5950X (16 cores / 32 threads) in single-thread/multi-core performance. .

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