Igor's Lab did a pretty comprehensive review on Alder Lake S power efficiency measurements.
https://www.igorslab.de/en/intel-core-i9-12900kf-core-i7-12700k-and-core-i5-12600k-review-gaming-in-really-fast-and-really-frugal-part-1/9/
https://www.igorslab.de/en/intel-macht-ernst-core-i9-12900kf-core-i7-12700k-und-core-i5-12600-im-workstation-einsatz-und-eine-niederlage-fuer-amd-2/9/
Gaming:
Rendering:
There's of course more data if you want to have a look but the jist of it is that Intel's Alder Lake S is extremely power efficient for the gaming performance it provides while in Render tasks and such, AMD takes the crown. It's very promising for future CPUs and Intels 7nm node.
List of Games Affected by DRM Issue in 12th Gen Intel® Core™ Processors for Windows 11 and Windows® 10
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000088261/processors.html
Least half of the compatibility issues can be resolved by updating to Windows 11 interestingly enough. The issues seem to stem from the fact that the DRM is detecting the E cores as a separate system and thus stopping the games from running as you can only have the games run at one system at a time. If you have an Alder Lake S CPU and running Windows 10 for whatever reason, you can also do the scroll lock workaround.
Forza Horizon 5 already has nearly 1 million players before its official release
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/forza-horizon-5-already-has-nearly-1-million-players-before-its-official-release/
It's an amazing game once you get around the initial launch kinks. For me, it kept crashing on startup until I manually had to exclude Forza from my anti virus even though my anti virus wasn't detecting it as a virus. Not sure what was going on there but since then, it's been flawless.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
