Watching several detailed YouTube reviews (Gamers Nexus, Hardware Unboxed), the performance difference is 0-20% above a 5950x. Long duration (above 8 min) rend

Watching several detailed YouTube reviews (Gamers Nexus, Hardware Unboxed), the performance difference is 0-20% above a 5950x. Long duration (above 8 min) render workloads seem to push AMD back to break even, but memory dependant mutlithreaded bursty workloads heavily favor 12900k. Of course halo products are going to halo. The interesting story may be the 12600k, for it's price to performance considerations. Cooling the chips is not simple, air cooling is not enough, one reviewer recommending 360mm AIO as a requirement. Edit: Gaming benchmarks are all over the place reviewer to reviewer. Some showing huge jumps, others not, game to game.