> This performance increase doesn't necessarily come from free given the application may need to be adjusted to utilise those extra cores especially when half o

> This performance increase doesn't necessarily come from free given the application may need to be adjusted to utilise those extra cores especially when half of them are slower to ensure the workload is distributed properly. It especially doesn't come for free when you consider that 12900k uses nearly 2.5x the power of a 2600k at peak. I'm not even sure 12900k can operate at full load under air cooling for longer than a few minutes.