Two chips enter, one chip leaves: It's the heavyweight desktop-CPU duel of the holiday season as Intel's and AMD's mega-core processing monsters go head-to-head. Which one prevails?
The Core i9-12900K is Intel's first truly innovative high-end desktop CPU in years, showing great potential in its performance/efficiency mixed-core design and support for DDR5 memory. Just expect a high initial cost of adoption and, perhaps, some PC-gaming growing pains.