Recently, it is rumored that the desktop version of Alder Lake-S has completed the ES stage and entered the QS stage, which means that the 12th-generation Core series processors are close to the retail version. Although the frequency of the final retail version may be adjusted, however,
according to people holding the Core i9-12900K QS version, this processor is equipped with 8 Golden Cove performance (large) cores and 8 Gracemont efficiency (small) cores (without hyperthreading), and its base frequency is 3.9 GHz. Turbo frequency is 5.3 GHz. It also provides the score of this processor in Cinebench R20, which is about 11300, which is about 8.6% higher than the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X processor.
Intel 12900K, 12700K 12600K specifications,Source: 我用第三人称 on Zhihu
According to VideoCardz reports, Intel has distributed Alder Lake-S processors to partners in the past few weeks. These QS version specifications are likely to be the final retail version specifications. At the same time, someone once again leaked some information about the Alder Lake-S processor, and there are three models, namely Core i9-12900K, Core i7-12700K, and Core i5-12600K. Due to the big.LITTLE hybrid architecture, the big core is called P-Core and the small core is called E-Core. The PL1 of these three K series processors are all 125W, and the PL2 are all 228W.