News, Reviews & Betas which includes large community peer support When Intel and Microsoft stated that the 12h Gen Alder Lake architecture is optimized for Windows 11, they probably didn’t lie as suggested by benchmarks run on both platforms using a Core i9-12900K.
Back at its Architecture Day 2021 event when Intel shared the core design details of its Alder Lake CPU architecture, the firm stated that Windows 11 was optimized in a way to best take advantage of the Alder Lake’s Performance Hybrid architecture and the new Thread Director technology that helps Windows 11 task scheduling. To test those claims and see how well Alder Lake fares on Windows 11 against Linux, Phoronix decided to do a deep-dive and benchmarked the recently launched Core i9-12900K from the Alder Lake-S family which is Intel’s 12th gen desktop flagship part.
