Intel says the benchmarks shown with the Core i9-12900K vs AMD were without the patch for Ryzen

This week Intel introduced the Alder Lake CPUs, with the i9-12900k as the top of the line and destroyer of AMD’s Ryzen 9 5950X. But at the time of launch, Ryan Shrout, Head of Performance Strategy at Intel, confirmed that the performance benchmarks between the Intel Core i9-12900K processor and the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X in games were not made with the performance gain patch released by AMD. and Microsoft to troubleshoot the latencies of the L3 Cache memory and the selection of the favorite core of these CPUs in the Windows 11 operating system.

Yes, this is the right answer. Testing was done, and our briefing with press, was done before the patch was released.

— Ryan Shrout (@ryanshrout) October 27, 2021

Anyway, it was to be expected that the Intel Core i9-12900K CPU has a performance difference in games, at the content creation level things will be very tight, that is why the company only mentioned that it had made great improvements in this section , but he was not leading the market when he said that about the gaming segment and overclocking.

With this in mind, we will have to wait for November 4 where all doubts will be cleared.