https://wccftech.com/intel-core-i9-12900k-es-benchmarks-leaked-st-score-25-higher-than-5950x-overall-mt-score-11-lower/

Cinebench R23 benchmarks of Intel's upcoming Intel Core i9 12900K Alder Lake CPUs have leaked out. Before we go any further, however, I would point out that these are engineering samples (ES) and might not be fully indicative of final retail sample performance. In the benchmarks, which come from Yuuki_Ans (via HXL), Intel's 8 performance and 8 efficient cores, beat out AMD's Ryzen 5950X in single-threaded score and almost match it in overall multithreaded score.

I can't help but wonder what a 16 p-core configuration from Intel would have looked like - and something that would have been extremely welcome by the community. Intel is no longer working with a massive process disadvantage (Alder Lake is on Intel 7) and the massive IPC gain over AMD cores is an impressive achievement considering the lackluster performance we have seen over the past few years. It very much looks like Intel is slowly coming back into form and competition is coming back to the x86 industry (while the Apple M1 Max looks on, hungry for a piece of the pie).