Latest Alder Lake-S benchmarks have it beating the Core i9-9900K

[HEXUS]

Even though Geekbench doesn't appear to know what to do with the ES hybrid core config.

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[watercooled]

'Leaked' benchmarks have to be taken with a pinch of salt, of course, but it's reassuring that it looks to be performing decently at non-final clocks. Alder Lake is definitely shaping up to be one of Intel's most interesting releases in quite some time, IMO.

[trillo_del_diavolo]

27.2GHz? Tejas is back it seems.

But why exactly do we need big.LITTLE in a desktop?

[alpha channel]

Because it's the only way to say that they've got a 16 core processor?

[excalibur1814]

27.2GHz? Tejas is back it seems.

But why exactly do we need big.LITTLE in a desktop?

...because it might save you a few pennies on your electric bill. maybe.

[kompukare]

27.2GHz? Tejas is back it seems.

But why exactly do we need big.LITTLE in a desktop?

...because Intel though they make life interesting for kernel and driver programmers?
To all ye kernel level programmers, may you live in interesting times.

[Iota]

...because it might save you a few pennies on your electric bill. maybe.

I would honestly not be surprised if Intel somehow managed to make the power consumption increase with the smaller cores added.

[trillo_del_diavolo]

That's quite possible because interconnects also take power, and they'll be gluing those chips together somehow.

[six_tymes]

Iv been waiting for years for socket 1700 with DDR5. glad to see its finally going to be released relatively soon.