The new Intel Core i9-12900KS processor had already broken several world overclocking records. It came out officially yesterday, but it has already had several experiments and overclocking tests. Some of the records he has achieved, such as 7,45 GHz with a single physical core and liquid nitrogen cooling; they are more academic than practical.
But the processor has also proven itself in benchmark tests like Cinebench, Geekbench, Wprime 1024, and HWBot X265 4K. These tests will be more indicative of the performance of the applications.
The i9-12900KS is an overclocking monster
Overclocker TSAIK has managed to bring the Core i9-12900KS to 7.450,62 MHz. The OC expert used liquid nitrogen cooling, a standard in extreme overclocking made to see what high numbers can be achieved. But he only had one physical performance core activated to reach this speed. The figure represents an overclock of more than 35% over the stock 1C/2T boost clocks.
MSI is quite pleased that TSAIK has achieved this record, since has done it with an MSI MEG Unify-X motherboard. The overclocker was able to have easy access to this motherboard since he is part of the MSI OC Team.
The Intel Core i9-12900KS proved in several reviews to be one of the best processors for gaming. The 12900KS is a special edition of the already powerful Core i9-12900K, hence the “S” suffix. It offers everything the processor version has, and benefits from being one of the better binned samples. It runs at speeds of up to 5,5GHz on dual cores and up to 5,2GHz for all-core boosts. Intel’s more advanced boost technologies really need some serious cooling for this CPU to reach its full potential.
One might expect the world record for overclocking speed to be faster with the Intel Core i9-12900KS than the 12900K. But for now it is not the case. Regular Tom's Hardware contributor Allen 'Splave' Golibersuch holds the world record for overclocking a 12900K at 7,6GHz, and it was achieved with a fully enabled 8C/16T P core configuration. But for now it's too early to overclock the 12900KS. Splave has dominated the table of new records and achievements presented by HWBot.
World record scores include the Cinebench 2003 score of 16 physical cores, the Cinebench – R23 single core score, and the Geekbench 4 Multi Core (16C) score.
Source: Tom's Hardware
