Should AMD Be Afraid? - Intel Alder Lake

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Intel has been taking its lumps from AMD for the last few years, but their new CEO and their newest chip, the 12th-gen Alder Lake, might be the marks for a comeback! Anthony explains and shows off their latest gear in today's video!

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 - It's ALDER LAKE time!
0:44 - Pressbox unboxing
1:38 - Alder Lake expanded look
2:56 - Alder Lake processor unveil and size comparison
5:27 - Z690 Socket impressions
6:34 - ASUS ROG Z690 Unboxing
7:50 - ASUS Ryujin II 360 cooler
8:44 - Sponsor - Seasonic!
9:04 - ASUS Z690 Maximus Hero Motherboard unboxing
9:20 - DDR5 Notes
10:22 - IO Information
10:49 - Final thoughts

[rolo]

that "Anthony" angry voice in the background at 4:22, just love it

[crmb]

Staff: “You’re sliding the CPU. You making viewers uncomfortable”
Everyone: Don’t worry 😉. We already remember when Linus drops his GPU.

[freakyxd]

I wish I needed an upgrade, but the "sad" truth is that I really don't, my tech brain just wants one.

[matheuswohl]

you guys could keep a set of cheap calipers on this set for whenever the need to measure some small thing quickly arises, like the thickness of the CPUs

[Eli-zbyj]

"This cpu socket is similar what is similar too i don't know" -anthony 2021

[jamesryan]

“Alder lake will be harder to find than Alderaan. Looking for power in Alder wrong places.” - Darth Vader

[TechyBen]

1:05 Intel: "Ok, who accidentally sent the giant monster CPU to Anthony? Now were gonna have to send the house sized motherboard and the car sized RAM sticks. Gah!"

[pieterrossouw]

The 3600 is the 2500K of its time. I'll probably use it for about 8 years too. Glad to see Intel doing something compelling though

[anthonyfn]

The low-end CPUs of these upcoming generations will be very exciting.

[midimusicforever]

You know you made it big when international multibillion dollar companies stand in line to drop high end hardware on your desk just so that you maybe, hopefully, would take the time to review them. Congrats on your succeess, LTT crew!

[eomoran]

Take a shot every time LTT mention that they've moved the chip onto the memory sticks

[stelp]

Sponsor segue was smooth as butter, look out Linus!
also, seems Asus REALLY likes Noctua all of a sudden, I like that.

[lethalantidote]

How are those efficiency cores going to be handled by the OS? I am specifically wondering about it's use for server applications. I have a K8s cluster running in my home lab made of my old gaming rigs. Will containers allocated a single (logical) core get a dedicated efficiency core if available or will it just be thrown anywhere it fits? Will it even matter? Will container orchestration even get along well with CPUs made of drastically different types of cores - as opposed to the current designs with all cores operating at similar performance/efficiency levels?

I would love to see a video on this, and should compliment your other homelab and server videos.

[trevzy]

These videos are great, Anthony has a casual conversation about some techy stuff and it feels really natural.

[RADukura]

Gotta wait for AMD’s Ryzen refresh to have a fair comparison

[daveshmups]

Great video, and great explanation by Anthony about DDR5 RAM, and everything else in this video!

[Mineav]

I hope Windows will allow you to assign tasks to either the efficiency or performance cores, so that you the ability to choose.

[NeckbeardIndustries]

If (more like when) Intel keeps fucking about and changing sockets every year, that'll be a huge turn off for me. AM4 has been a blessing, being able to justify the purchase of a high end mobo with the intention of cpu upgrades in the future was a big selling point of 1st gen Ryzen for me.

[SaarN]

Heh, we got 4 cores from Intel for such a long time. Look at what competition does!
More cores, more different kind od cores, stacked cache, oddly shaped sockets!
Neat!
Without AMD the 12609 would have been a 4core/8t 14nm I7 running at a 100MHz higher than last year

[zeekjones]

My 2700x is still more than enough for my use case, and since the AM4 socket is EoL I expect upgrades to be relatively cheap.