The tests of Intel's new 12th Gen Core processor generation (Alder Lake) are just around the corner and may be published from 15.00h this afternoon. But it happens again and again that some editorial offices release their tests "by mistake" too early, which happened among others today (and not for the first time) to the big website Linus Tech Tips.
Since then, the whole can now already read what was whispered to each other in advance anyway (and also we 
vermiutet have ):
The top model Core i9-12900HK is very fast and can easily outperform AMD in some areas, but not as clearly as originally presented by Intel in comparison with an unpatched Windows 11 version. Besides a lot of power, Intel also needs very expensive DDR5 RAM for this success, as well as motherboards that are also not cheap. In addition, Intel almost only achieves its successes in single-core benchmarks. As soon as many processor cores are required, AMD remains the better choice in most cases.
However, it is much more interesting that Intel can also be efficient when the processor is not operated under full load. The next smaller model, the i5-12600K thus seems much more competitive compared to a Ryzen 5 5600X - also in terms of power consumption.
Intel's NDA drops this afternoon, and then you'll be able to read myriad reviews that will probably elaborate on these tendencies even further. Which of course makes AMD's counter-reaction particularly exciting.
The early media spectacle shouldn't really be inconvenient for Intel. The release is likely to remain a big topic of conversation on the web throughout the day. It also fits into this picture that some pre-orderers in America received their CPUs too early - and retailers like Newegg had to call them to tell them that they shouldn't put any benchmarks online before the NDA case. Which somehow doesn't make sense for end customers. Well.... According to our information, the circus will end at 15:00 (or 14:00? we already have winter time here, but it's still daylight saving time in the US).
;)