The embargo on independent reviews of the Alder Lake-S desktop series has officially lifted.  Now available from retailers, the six unlocked desktop processors are the first based on Intel’s performance hybrid architecture featuring a combination of Performance-cores (P-cores), the highest performing CPU core Intel has built, and Efficient-cores (E-cores), designed for scalable multi-threaded workload performance. We have gathered a number of reviews on the new 12th Gen processors, and they are featured via the links below.

Intel Core i9-12900K and Core i5-12600K

• TOM’S HARDWARE
• EUROGAMER
• HOTHARDWARE
• OC3D
• OVERCLOCKERS
• GURU3D (Core i9 12900K)
• GURU3D (Core i5 12600K)
• TECHPOWERUP! (Core i9 12900K)
• TECHPOWERUP! (Core i5 12600K)

Intel Core i7-12700K

• TECHPOWERUP!