Alder Lake launching November 4th

I'm hoping Raptor Lake is a drop in upgrade with a DDR4 motherboard.
I could skip Raptor Lake but upgrading is too much fun.
 
chameleoneel said:
Popping in here again to say that my 12700K using only the 8 pcores at stock speed, with unlimited turbo time: Beats my overclocked Ryzen 3900x in Cinibench R23 multicore, by about 1200 points. So that's 8 cores Vs. 12 cores. These P cores are nuts.
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What's the temps and power consumption (are you able to measure it?) of the two chips/mobos? I am curious. The Alder Lake parts seem like to the ones to choose (over Ryzen) now. I dunno if the new Ryzen tech. will be as good (Zen 3+/Zen 4) but Alder Lake motherboards are pretty pricey here and DDR5 prices/availability is another matter.
 
pendragon1 said:
how often do you play cinebench?
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For my personal use cases, R23 is a good guage for CPU performance.

Specifically, Somewhere around 17,000 - 18,0000 multi-core, coincides with being able to do X.264 slow in OBS at 1080p. So....either an overclocked 10900k or a 3900x, have been required for that. The fact we can do it now with 8 cores at stock speed (I get around 19400 points with the 8 Pcores), is crazy. And these 8 cores will actually allow some more specialized custom options, that would be tough with even the overclocked 3900x.

But then of course it has the 4 e-cores, which add a few more thousand points.

The point though, was to highlight the potency of the P Cores.
 
$180 CPU...



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Interesting. This would create some additional options if it can work on a more budget-priced board. It would be competing with the current budget option, which is to get a 12600K/12700K and a $200 DDR4 board. The money that would have went towards getting a K-series CPU could go towards getting a mobo with more features, DDR5 instead of DDR4, or it can just stay in your bank account. Microcode update to follow?
 
Of course I'm interested to see if this exists on Asus boards further down the stack. Looks like a ton of fun.
 
TaintedSquirrel said:
$180 CPU...
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With DDR5 and board (i.e. it changes nothing in reality I imagine, it is an high-cost solution), but it gives an information even on the latest Battlefield, fast 6 core > 8-10 core even with much less cache, specially for the 1% low. Or maybe it is the very high bandwidth ram doing it ?
 
The only reason I am running this is because I received free DDR5. I will be glad to move on to AM5 with it.
 
I'm debating when or if to go for last final straw of a DDR4 setup before jumping to DDR5 as I already have a 32GB Samsung B-die setup that I'd gladly keep slightly longer but currently I find the CPU of Alder lake (12700K is what I'm eyeing) and the Z690 motherboards fairly costly upgrade for just a CPU + mobo swap. I'm currently sitting on a Z370 + 9700K setup but could always use more CPU processing power. Will there be any refreshes of Alder Lake I could still use the same motherboard with if so?

At least it seems I will be limited to Intel camp if sticking with DDR4.
 
RPGWiZaRD said:
I'm debating when or if to go for last final straw of a DDR4 setup before jumping to DDR5 as I already have a 32GB Samsung B-die setup that I'd gladly keep slightly longer but currently I find the CPU of Alder lake (12700K is what I'm eyeing) and the Z690 motherboards fairly costly upgrade for just a CPU + mobo swap. I'm currently sitting on a Z370 + 9700K setup but could always use more CPU processing power. Will there be any refreshes of Alder Lake I could still use the same motherboard with if so?

At least it seems I will be limited to Intel camp if sticking with DDR4.
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Raptor Lake sounds like it is going to have a DDR4 memory controller which will be a drop in replacement with a bios update for current 6XX series boards. Probably the last hurrah for DDR4.

Sounds like Intel wants 7XX boards to be DDR5 only.
 
One thing to be careful of is the DDR5 speed. I'll admit, this caught me completely off guard. Don't expect to hit those speeds if you're running more than 2 sticks.

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16959/DRAMADL.png

When I ordered my PC, I went through countless motherboard revisions and DDR types to get above 4000. I never bothered to look at this at the time, because I needed 64GB+, and there were no available 32GB DIMMs when I purchased the computer, I ended up spending $800 more so I could just be running @ 4600 MT/s. This is apparently a big issue with people finding out that their DDR5 6000 chips are only running at 4000, otherwise they become unstable.
 
RPGWiZaRD said:
I'm debating when or if to go for last final straw of a DDR4 setup before jumping to DDR5 as I already have a 32GB Samsung B-die setup that I'd gladly keep slightly longer but currently I find the CPU of Alder lake (12700K is what I'm eyeing) and the Z690 motherboards fairly costly upgrade for just a CPU + mobo swap. I'm currently sitting on a Z370 + 9700K setup but could always use more CPU processing power. Will there be any refreshes of Alder Lake I could still use the same motherboard with if so?

At least it seems I will be limited to Intel camp if sticking with DDR4.
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I have DDR4 and a 12700K and it does everything I need (mainly gaming). I thought about upgrading to DDR5 and a new board, but all the benchmarks tell me to stay put with what I have for now.
 
Nytegard said:
One thing to be careful of is the DDR5 speed. I'll admit, this caught me completely off guard. Don't expect to hit those speeds if you're running more than 2 sticks.

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16959/DRAMADL.png

When I ordered my PC, I went through countless motherboard revisions and DDR types to get above 4000. I never bothered to look at this at the time, because I needed 64GB+, and there were no available 32GB DIMMs when I purchased the computer, I ended up spending $800 more so I could just be running @ 4600 MT/s. This is apparently a big issue with people finding out that their DDR5 6000 chips are only running at 4000, otherwise they become unstable.
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Yeah with the headlines of Intel asking for DDR5 only------they had better be making a big jump with their memory controller. IMO, the memory controller for Alder Lake was a pretty underwhelming step from Rocket Lake. And put a small damper on the otherwise really potent core architecture.
 
chameleoneel said:
Yeah with the headlines of Intel asking for DDR5 only------they had better be making a big jump with their memory controller. IMO, the memory controller for Alder Lake was a pretty underwhelming step from Rocket Lake. And put a small damper on the otherwise really potent core architecture.
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And the Rocket Lake memory controller was a big step back from Comet Lake.

I see no reason why a 12900k can't run 2x16GB DDR4 3600 sticks in 2022 at 1T...but here we are. I don't feel like this is pushing the memory controller all that hard, especially since they've had 6 generations to work on DDR4 compatibility.
 
That's a nice price honestly. The same combo is $560.54 out the door at Microcenter.
 
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