News

Intel twelfth Gen Alder Lake Desktop CPUs Listed By US Retailer With Preliminary Costs For Each Boxed & Tray Variants

Written by Jeff Lampkin

US-based retailer, Provantage, has listed down Intel’s twelfth Gen Alder Lake Desktop CPUs together with their preliminary costs. The listings noticed by Momomo_US & Harukaze5719 present us early costs respective to each boxed and tray variants of the Alder Lake lineup.

Intel twelfth Gen Alder Lake Desktop CPUs Listed By US Retailer, Preliminary Costs Revealed For Boxed & Tray Variants

A number of weeks again, we noticed preliminary costs listed by a number of European retailers however now, the worth record comes from US retailers. Do observe that these are nonetheless early costs and do not mirror the ultimate MSRP that we are going to see when the chips hit retailer cabinets in November. The costs solely present a reference for these planning to hit the pre-order button to order a unit previous to launch. The costs additionally differ considerably from retailer to retailer since Intel has no management over them till they really delivery CPUs to their distribution and retail companions.

Intel Z690 ‘Alder Lake’ PCH For Subsequent-Gen Fanatic Motherboards Pictured

The retail outlet lists down all three unlocked chips in ‘Ok’ and ‘KF’ configurations. These chips are additional listed in each Boxed and Tray variants. Shoppers typically get boxed CPUs & tray CPUs are shipped to OEMs and bulk clients. For the reason that tray variants do not use any supplies corresponding to packaging, and many others, they have an inclination to value a bit decrease.

So beginning with the pricing, we now have the Intel Core i9-12900K listed for $604.89 (boxed) & 605.92 US (tray). The Core i9-12900KF is listed for $578.13 US (boxed) and $578.49 US (tray). For some motive, this particular retailer has the boxed and tray pricing set the identical which is not the case. With that stated, shifting on to the Core i7-12700K, we now have pricing of $422.17 US (boxed) and $420.26 US (tray), the Core i7-12700KF has a pricing of $395.61 US (boxed) and $392.36 US (tray). Lastly, we now have the Core i5-12600K which is listed for $288.77 US (boxed) and $283.59 US (tray) whereas the Core i5-12600KF is listed for $261.77 US (boxed) and $263.15 US (tray).

Intel Alder Lake Field/Tray CPU Costs (Preliminary) Provantage:

CPU IdentifyField WorthTray WorthDistinction (vs Tray)
Intel Core i9-12900K$604.89$605.92-1%
Intel Core i9-12900KF$578.13$578.49-1%
Intel Core i7-12700K$422.17$420.26+1%
Intel Core i7-12700KF$395.61$392.36+1%
Intel Core i5-12600K$288.77$283.59+2%
Intel Core i5-12600KF$261.77$263.15-1%

Now to check costs with current elements on the identical retailer, the Core i7-11700K prices $404.94 US whereas the Core i7-11700KF prices $381.62 US. Each are tray variants and the boxed variant of it prices $414.71 US. So evaluating the costs to the Intel Core i7-12700K, we see a value distinction of 8 USD (+2%) for the boxed and 15 USD (+3.5%) for the tray variant. The identical is the case with the Core i7-12700KF variant which is priced 11 US extra 3% increased.

For the Core i5 variant, the Core i5-11600K is listed for $275.81 US (boxed) and $258.59 US (tray) whereas the Core i5-11600KF is listed for $232.39 US (tray). The Core i5-12600K is priced at 13 US extra or 5% increased whereas the tray variant is priced at 25 US extra or a ten% increased value. The Core i5-12600KF is priced at 31 US extra or 13% increased. The value improve listed right here is not very drastic and will come all the way down to the identical or decrease ranges by the point we’re near launch and remaining MSRPs are launched.

Once more, these are all preliminary listings but it surely does give us hope that Intel may go the aggressive route with costs, Current leaked benchmarks and stories indicated that the Alder Lake-S household will ship an enormous improve in multi-threaded efficiency and the Core i5-12600K goes to be one of the vital aggressive CPUs within the lineup, tackling each AMD Ryzen 5 5600X and Ryzen 7 5800X at a cheaper price level.

Intel twelfth Gen Alder Lake Desktop CPU Specs “Rumored”

CPU IdentifyP-Core RelyE-Core RelyWhole Core / ThreadP-Core Base / Enhance (Max)P-Core Enhance (All-Core)E-Core Base / EnhanceE-Core Enhance (All-Core)CacheTDP (PL1)TDP (PL2)Anticipated (MSRP) Worth
Intel Core i9-12900K8816 / 243.2 / 5.3 GHz5.0 GHz (All Core)TBA / 3.9 GHz3.7 GHz (All Core)30 MB125W228W$599 US
Core i9-129008816 / 24TBA / 5.3 GHz5.0 GHz (All Core)TBA / 3.9 GHz3.7 GHz (All Core)20 MB65W~200W$509 US
Intel Core i7-12700K8412 / 203.6 / 5.0 GHz4.7 GHz (All Core)TBA / 3.8 GHz3.6 GHz (All Core)25 MB125W228W$429 US
Core i7-127008412 / 20TBA / 5.0 GHz4.7 GHz (All Core)TBA / 3.8 GHz3.6 GHz (All Core)25 MB65W~200W$359 US
Intel Core i5-12600K6410 / 163.7 / 4.9 GHz4.5 GHz (All Core)TBA / 3.6 GHz3.4 GHz (All Core)20 MB125W228W$279 US
Core i5-12600606 / 12TBATBATBATBA18 MB65W~200W$249 US
Core i5-12400606 / 12TBATBATBATBA18 MB65W~200W$203 US

About the author

Jeff Lampkin

Jeff Lampkin was the first writer to have joined gamepolar.com. He has since then inculcated very effective writing and reviewing culture at GamePolar which rivals have found impossible to imitate. His approach has been to work on the basics while the whole world was focusing on the superstructures.