Intel’s Core i9-12900K has only just been unveiled, and it’s already breaking world records on the performance front.

As Tom’s Hardware reports, the freshly revealed Alder Lake flagship processor managed to set three new records when pushed hard by Tom’s resident overclocking expert Allen ‘Splave’ Golibersuch – and that’s just for starters, no doubt.

Splave overclocked the Core i9-12900K to 6.8GHz on its performance cores (up from 5.2GHz), and 5.3GHz (up from 3.9GHz) on the efficiency cores (yes, they can be ramped up too), using liquid nitrogen to keep the CPU cool while running benchmarks on Geekbench (and also Intel’s Extreme Tuning Utility or XTU).
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