Intel Alder Lake CPUs promise to be ideal for moving games and will be the first to move DDR5. There is curiosity how it will behave with the DDR4 memories that are more accepted today and it is not expected that the potential of DDR5 will be taken for several years, with which there is also expectation for the Alder Lake benchmarks with DDR4.
The first unofficial tests of an Alder Lake series Intel Core i7-12700K CPU paired with DDR4 memory on a Z690 motherboard have just come out. the results according to the filter is that they are very positive.
Alder Lake plays well with DDR4 on a Z690 motherboard
The user @TUM_APISAK discovered the benchmarks on the PugetBench website, but these benchmarks have been removed. According to the leaked data, it was using Windows 11 Pro, the processor was the Intel 12th Gen Core Alder Lake i7-12700K, the GPU was an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card, and memory was 128GB of 3200MHz DDR4 RAM, and the motherboard was Gigabyte. It came with the Z690 chipset.
The CPU was tested in three separate benchmarks that gave a good score. This score beats Intel's 11th generation, and AMD's Ryzen 9 series. Using Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Photoshop from the Adobe suite, the system scored 1565, 1114, and 1244, respectively; And with these numbers, the Alder Lake CPU would top all the tests, in the absence of the flagship CPU being tested.
These results, always considering that they are provisional, show that Alder Lake is fully compatible with the DDR4 format, and for now there is no urgent need to switch to DDR5. It is common that a new format does not stand out until the drivers are updated and compatibility is improved, so these numbers with DDR5 memory could be delayed a few years until they arrive.
Source: Tom's Hardware
