Intel Just Revealed a Ton More Twelfth-Gen Alder Lake Desktop CPUs

Intel at CES 2022 lastly took the wraps off of the total suite of its Twelfth-gen Alder Lake desktop processors from Pentium on as much as Core i9 SKUs.

In complete, Intel introduced 22 new SKUs starting from 35 to 65W chips to associate with three chipsets for extra budget-friendly motherboards than the flagship Z690 obtainable as we speak.

The chipsets—the H670, B660, and H610—assist each DDR5 or DDR4 flavors from the highest to the underside of the stack, however if you wish to overclock your processor, you will have a Z690 motherboard. Memory overclocking is feasible on the H670 and B660 however not the H610, so simply know saving some money means being caught with default reminiscence speeds.

What you don’t miss out on is assist for both DDR5 or DDR4 relying on the part. This sooner RAM improve is supported on all Twelfth-gen Alder Lake desktop SKUs, even the lowly Celeron G6900T.

When it involves connectivity, the Z690 is predictably one of the best geared up, nevertheless, the H670 is not any slouch, providing 14 USB 2.0 ports, a pair of USB 3.2 (20 Gbps ports), 4 USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps) ports, and eight USB 3.2 (5 Gbps) inputs. Only the H610 doesn’t assist 20 Gbps USB 3.2 ports.

DMI connections had been doubled with the highest fashions supporting x8 DMI 4.0 whereas the 2 extra budget-friendly assist x4 DMI 4.0. Similarly, storage choices are cut up into two teams, with the Z690 and H670 supporting as much as eight SATA III ports whereas the B660 and H610 are restricted to 4.

These boards will pair with one of many newly launched processors. I received’t checklist the practically two dozen Twelfth Gen Intel Alder Lake SKUs arriving this week to affix the three “hero” chips, the Core i9-12900K, i7-12700K, and i5-12600K, of their respective classes. Instead, I’ll direct you to the desk beneath the place you possibly can see a rundown of every of those chips and their specs.

Intel didn’t present any benchmarks past these for the Core i9-12900 and Core i5-12600 it revealed final 12 months. We’ll conduct our personal checks as soon as we begin getting these chips into our workplace.

As a part of its announcement, Intel took the wraps off three inventory coolers. Paired with Core i9 CPUs is the Laminar RH1 with RGB lighting and a bigger copper warmth column. The remainder of the Core lineup is cooled by a Laminar RM1 Cooler whereas Pentium and Celeron chips are paired with the Laminar RS1.