Intel introduces a 5.5 GHz processor, little new to the graphics cards

The keynote from chip giant Intel at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, in short: CES, was perhaps one of the most eagerly awaited. After all, the company plans to have Nvidia and AMD in the parade this year and to stir up the market with its own dedicated graphics cards for gamers. The presentation has only just ended, but unfortunately we are not really much smarter than before when it comes to the Arc Alchemist accelerators.

Intel’s Executive Vice President Gregory Bryant mainly had news about the notebook processors of the Core i-12000 series up his sleeve. They should of course be clearly superior to the competition from AMD. What kind of presentation would it be if it wasn’t made abundantly clear.

Intel Core i9 12900KS

And also with the desktop processors, Intel’s competitor AMD, who for his part countered the Core i9 12900K three hours earlier at its own keynote with the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, wants to counter.

We’re talking about the Core i9 12900KS. Obviously, this is a particularly well-selected version of the regular 12900K, which has one or two cores at the top of 5.5 GHz. All-core, to be precise: According to the presentation, 5.2 GHz are possible on all performance cores at the same time.

The specs of the Core i9 12900KS at a glance:

Intel Arc Alchemist

As mentioned at the beginning, there is unfortunately very little new information about the graphics cards. The accelerators from the Arc Alchemist are said to be on their way to the OEM partners. Asus, Dell, Acer, Lenovo and Co. already have over 50 designs in planning for both notebooks and desktop PCs.

However, the keynote does not reveal exactly when we will hold graphics cards in our hands. Just as little about the actual performance data and prices. A picture with a notebook and the very vague information: Intel Arc Coming in Q1 2022 only confirms what is already known.

Intel XeSS

At least there is a little more to report about Intel’s DLSS counterpart XeSS: One of the first games with support for the AI ​​upscaler will be the Definitive Edition of Death Stranding. There we also have the opportunity to have XeSS compete against DLSS. In addition to Death Stranding, Hitman 3, The Riftbreaker, Grit, Dolmen, Super People and Grid Legends will also offer support for XeSS.

IIn contrast to DLSS, XeSS is not only reserved for graphics cards from Intel, but can also be used on Nvidia and AMD accelerators, as long as they can handle the DP4a instruction set. This is the case with Nvidia from GTX 1000 and with AMD from RX 6000.