An Intel Alder Lake processor has been spotted in a game benchmark, suggesting that the development of 12th-gen chips is progressing nicely (even if we might not see the new silicon until later in 2021 than early rumors suggested).

The early engineering sample of an (unspecified) Alder Lake-S desktop CPU was found in the CapFrameX database by German tech site ComputerBase, and shows the chip running Dota 2 in a PC that has an Intel motherboard, 32GB of DDR5-4800 system RAM, plus an Nvidia RTX 3080 graphics card. No info is provided on the spec of the processor, sadly, except the clock speed it was running at – a relatively sluggish 2.2GHz.
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