Intel Alder Lake-H Mobile CPU Performance Impresses, Handily Bests Ryzen Mobile (hothardware.com) 17
MojoKid writes: Intel lifted its performance embargo today on its new line of Alder Lake 12th Gen Core mobile processors for laptops. Reviews are hitting the web specifically with Intel's higher-end Alder Lake-H processor SKU. Alder Lake is intended to be a single, scalable CPU architecture, designed to address PC client platforms from ultra-mobile solutions down to 9 watts, up to high-performance 125 Watt+ desktop solutions. Alder Lake-H, the foundation of the Core i9-12900HK 14-core/20-thread chip in this review at HotHardware has a 45W power envelope, but it will boost to much higher levels when power and thermal headroom is available. Coupled with NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti mobile GPU, the machine put up some of the best gaming and content creation benchmark numbers ever recorded on a laptop.
Alder Lake-H CPU derivatives will scale back to 8-core chips with a mix of Performance cores and Efficiency cores consistent with Intel's new hybrid architecture. Additional benchmarks and performance recorded on the new Alienware x17 R2 with an identical hardware config were equally as impressive. Intel 12th Gen-powered laptops are starting to become available in market now, with lower power Alder Lake-U SKUs for thin and light machines arriving later this year.
Alder Lake-H CPU derivatives will scale back to 8-core chips with a mix of Performance cores and Efficiency cores consistent with Intel's new hybrid architecture. Additional benchmarks and performance recorded on the new Alienware x17 R2 with an identical hardware config were equally as impressive. Intel 12th Gen-powered laptops are starting to become available in market now, with lower power Alder Lake-U SKUs for thin and light machines arriving later this year.
Power consumption/heat at peak? (Score:4, Insightful)
Who wants to carry a laptop with an external chip cooler unit? I'm looking forward to seeing evaluation comparisons between Alder Lake and M-1 laptops.
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Yea, I'm just assuming they did this with Intel's benchmarking tools, built using Intel's compiler.
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techniques that only Apple is allowed to employ ;)
Re:Power consumption/heat at peak? (Score:5, Insightful)
The whole review doesn't seem to say what the headline claims. The Ryzen machine they tested against had a 3070 GPU, so it's not surprising that the 3080 in this thing was faster.
Their battery life test is meaningless because they didn't even note the size of the battery, let alone normalize for it.
Makes me wonder how much Intel paid them for this review.
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Makes me wonder how much Intel paid them for this review.
Probably a lot. Intel cannot make it, so they currently fake it.
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Indeed. Again, Intel has crappy performance in anything but speed.
I laughed at the article headline (Score:3)
"MSI's GE76 Raider Laptop Screams" ... and so do you, if it's sitting on your lap when the chip ramps up to 125 watts.
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"MSI's GE76 Raider Laptop Screams" ... and so do you, if it's sitting on your lap when the chip ramps up to 125 watts.
May also cause impotence in men.
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And yet . . . (Score:1)
Intel and other chip manufacturers can't get chips out the door. So much so, that many manufacturers have five days or less [cnn.com] stock on hand.
Makes one wonder if folks such as Intel are deliberately keeping production down to drive up prices and prolong shortages. After all, it won't be until 2024 that we might start to see backlogs going down.
Proper headline: (Score:2)
Hemorrhaging Intel Pays For Good Review
Seriously, if you actually look at the comparison, it's pathetic. Comparing a laptop with an external cooling unit to one without one is like saying your car is faster because it's being towed in a fast truck.
Intel can only win by cheating benchmarks and it's painfully obvious. You can take the dishonest CEO out of Intel but you cannot take the dishonesty out of Intel.
Why do editors keep trolling these stories? (Score:5, Interesting)
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Well, they removed story tags long ago, so we couldn't tag the obvious ad stories.
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Intel doesn't put out these benchmarks. These laptops are reviewed by the usual suspects including Anandtech: https://www.anandtech.com/show... [anandtech.com]
It performs as claimed. What exactly is your complaint?
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Stating that the chip is performing as claimed is pointless unless you have a reference point/class of comparison to create an interpretive context. If information is missing that defines your reference point (or you use an unrepresentative extreme edge case), then the interpretation is equivocal or meaningless and all you end up with is a context-free interpretation that "the numbers are bigger/smaller" with the added unjustified qualification that "it also must be better".
To your point, I should not have
Screen (Score:2)
The measly 263 nits brightness is barely enough to light up the screen in one's mom's windowless basement.
The 16:9 aspect ratio in 2022 is getting ridiculous. What next, the surplus Macbook OLED bars will be repurposed?