Being behind its competitors for many years, AMD managed to gain the lost market share and even more with its processors with Ryzen architecture a few years ago. However, it seems that it will not be able to hold its absolute place at the top for many years. Because Intel seems to have closed the gap with the new 12th generation Alder Lake family.
Intel Core i9 12900K and AMD Ryzen 9 5950X go head-to-head
Intel’s latest and most powerful Core i9 12900K Alder Lake processor was tested against AMD Ryzen 9 5950X in Cinebench R20 benchmark. Both processors are heavily overclocked. Of course, although the Ryzen 5950X represents an older generation than the Alder Lake CPU, the test results revealed that they are direct competitors.
AMD and Intel faced off in a rather unusual comparison, backed by the world’s #1 overclocker, Splave. Moreover, Splave is known for exceeding the limits of hardware. In this comparison, the CPUs experienced exactly this situation.
Splave shared its overclocking success with an interesting result. Both the i9 12900K Alder Lake and the Ryzen 9 5950X scored exactly the same in Cinebench R20. CPUs with 15,664 points each managed to break world records. In fact, the AMD side’s performance goes back over a year. But it remains the highest score achieved by any Ryzen 5000 series CPU to date.
Intel and AMD achieved extremely high clock speeds as a result of these world-record overclocking tests. On the main performance cores, the Intel Core i9 12900K is 6 at a core voltage of 1.58v. It managed to reach 9GHz clock speed. Splave also overclocked the smaller efficiency cores to 5.4GHz at a voltage of 1.57V.
Also, the Intel system featured an AsRock Z690 Aqua OC motherboard alongside 16GB of DDR5 memory running at 6565MHz. Liquid nitrogen cooling was used on both platforms to enable these frequencies. In other words, we can say that the environment will get very hot in an alternative cooling solution.
AMD Ryzen 5950X managed to reach impressive heights in terms of clock speeds as well. All 16 cores are overclocked to a full 6 GHz. Voltage has not been disclosed, but we do know that the system has an AsRock X570 Aqua motherboard and 16GB of 4000MHz DDR4 memory.
The Intel Alder Lake Core i9 12900K has a completely different architecture than the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X. On top of that, the hardware in which the CPU is integrated also differs, as the Ryzen test is almost a year old. Even though two identical processors are unlikely to give the same result in tests, these two rivals turned out to be head-to-head.
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