Core i9 12900K beats Ryzen 9 5950X in Ashes of Singularity by 40%.
The Core i9-12900K (Alder Lake), a 16-core, 24-thread processor, has been tested in Ashes of the Singularity as spotted by Twitterer BenchLeaks. Since dedicated quality presets were utilized, other CPUs can be compared.
A 1440p high preset on the i9-12900K gets an average CPU frame rate of 146.6 fps, 40% more than the Ryzen 9 5950X's 104.6. Both processors were tested with an RTX 3080 and 64 GB of RAM, but the card clock speeds are unknown. So we don't know if the benchmarks were conducted with (heavy) overclocks.
With a grain of salt or two in mind, these stats could give a rough idea of Alder Lake's gaming performance. On October 27 and 28, Intel InnovatiON we expect Intel to present its next desktop CPUs, with additional benchmarks surely to follow.
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Does anyone actually play Ashes of Singularity, or is it just an esoteric benchmark suite these days? I seem to recall it was the poster boy of AMD Mantle, or something.
The percentage seems a bit high, but I'm sure it will be somewhat more powerful in games. Who knows about anything else but games, especially software where all cores and threads can be utilised 100%. That remains to be seen.
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Isn't aos kinda caps on about 8 cores?
Let's wait and see what those puppies can do

@Kaarme i think at this point we should name it ashes of bencularity :p
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but rumor and as HH said:
"So we don't know if the benchmarks were conducted with (heavy) overclocks".
Apparently they're stock.
The average fps overclocked results are even higher:
153fps
156fps
If all these confirms in most of the games then ya, hats off, I'm fecking buying one.
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@Hilbert Hagedoorn Anyone notice the dates on the two screen shots? Well there happens to be a patch @kanenas mentions that came out after the Ryzen screen shot. I have a feeling we have some shenanigan's at play here where one is using the patch to use more cores and one isn't.
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DDR 4 VS 5 advantage intel, windows 11 vs 10 advantage intel, can't wait to see what differences this makes after some proper guru reviews