This first quarter of 2022 is proving to be very “lively” for the consumer processor market. Intel has practically concluded the launch phase of the Alder Lake platform, AMD responded to CES 2022 with the Ryzen 6000 “Zen3 +” series, confirming in the desktop segment the solid Ryzen 5000, on the market since October 2020. It cannot be denied that the he arrival of the Core 12th gen has reshuffled the cards on the table, bringing the leadership of absolute performance back to Santa Clara and improving a lot on the efficiency side, the real strength of AMD CPUs.
Speaking of desktop solutions, Intel is realizing a lot with the Alder Lake models, fast and with prices that we can define very competitive if we look at what they offer (see the Core i7-12700K just reviewed). Waiting for the processors with Zen4 architecture (5nm), the competitor AMD for the moment is holding up well with the Zen3 products, however at CES it had announced the Ryzen 7 5800X3D which, in essence, should compete in the gaming field with Alder Lake until the debut of the long-awaited Ryzen 7000 (Zen4 in fact) thanks to the implementation of 3D V-Cache technology.
Apparently the arrival of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D shouldn’t be far offconfirmation comes from Gigabyte which has released a new BIOS for AMD 400 and 500 series motherboards; this update brings the AGESA ComboV2 PI 1.2.0.6B which, according to Gigabyte, adds support for new processors and reintroduces the Max CPU Boost Override option.
The direct reference to the Ryzen 7 5800X3D is missing, however the new AGESA version seems to arrive precisely to guarantee full support for this chip and 3D V-Cache technology. According to AMD, this CPU should guarantee a clear increase in in-game performance, beating the Intel Core i9-12900K in many cases (Review).
Intel, however, will not stand by and is ready to fight back with Core i9-12900KS – also announced in January – a CPU to say the least extreme that will arrive with Boost frequencies of 5.5 GHz and All-Core at 5.2 GHz. This solution will guarantee a performance increase of 5% and 10% (single / multi-core) compared to the “standard” 12900K, thus allowing to improve even in games. In short, the premises are all there, we know that the Core i9-12900KS should cost $ 749, while we have no details regarding the AMD proposal, now more concrete than ever.
