We might just see this ‘KS’ variant of the 12th-gen flagship at CES 2022.
Intel could be set to offer a new version of its flagship Alder Lake processor which reaches a higher boost speed across all its cores than the existing Core i9-12900K, or so the rumor mill has it. This would theoretically be the Core i9-12900KS, and according to sources who spoke to VideoCardz, it’ll be a pre-binned version (high-performing 12900K chips capable of reaching higher clocks speeds above the guaranteed baseline performance) of the CPU capable of reaching an all-core boost of 5.2GHz rather than the 5GHz of the current 12900K. As VideoCardz points out, though, the 12900K’s all-core Turbo is obviously workload dependent, and generally at stock clocks, the CPU hits around 4.
