Since the confirmation during the CES 2022 exhibition at the beginning of the year, Intel's 12th generation Core top flagship model i9-12900KS has been leaked and exposed, and now it is finally about to be released.

Intel officially announced that it will officially release the i9-12900KS at 3:00 a.m. Beijing time on April 6, and take the opportunity to hold a special event to showcase four new PCs, all equipped with i9-12900KS, and invite industry experts to chat together.

The i9-12900KS can be regarded as a chicken blood enhanced version of the i9-12900K, or 8 large, 8 small, 16 cores, 24 threads, 14MB L2 cache, and 30MB L3 cache.

The frequency of large cores has increased from 3.2-5.2GHz to 3.4-5.5GHz, and the frequency of small cores has increased from 2.4-3.9GHz to 2.5-4.0GHzThe reference power consumption has been increased from 125W to 150W, and the maximum turbo power consumption has been maintained at 241W and increased to 260W.

American Newegg had briefly listed the i9-12900KS earlier, and the list price was as high as high $799 (About 5090 yuan), which is almost 36% more expensive than i9-12900K.

If the Bank of China is also this price difference, i9-12900KS will have to sell for about 6780 yuan, at least in the early 6000 yuan.

It is worth mentioning that AMD has officially released the new Ryzen™ 7 5800X3D, integrating up to 64MB 3D V-Cache stacking cache, claiming to regain the strongest game CPU, and now facing the i9-12900KS will definitely be under pressure.

Just, the Ryzen™ 7 5800X3D price is just that $449 , almost half cheaper.