Unlike in the eleventh generation of Intel Core where we had two different architectures for desktops and laptops, in the case of the twelfth generation we will see the same architecture in both types of PC. Where the bet of the company today led by Pat Gelsinger is diametrically opposite to what AMD will do. While the Ryzen 6000 APUs will continue with the Zen 3 architecture, but with a more powerful iGPU, the Alder Lake-P will improve the CPU, but keep the iGPU. The only point in common? DDR5, the new memory standard that will be supported by both architectures.
Although a few months ago we were able to know how the Alder Lake-P CPUs would be organized, according to the type of notebooks for which they were designed, in reality until now we have completely unknown what the products that compose it will be. Although for the moment Intel is going to focus on conventional laptops through three categories classified by the type of computer and its TDP. First of all, we would have the ultralight laptops with a TDP of 15 W (U15), then the also ultralight ones with a TDP of 28 W (U28) and to finish the conventional laptops with a consumption of 45 W (H45).
This would be the first Intel Core 12 laptops
All Alder Lake-P, regardless of their level of consumption, will support technologies such as Thunderbolt 4, PCIe Gen 5.0 and WiFi 6E. However, it is expected that the lower consumption models will make use of LPDDR5 memory instead of DDR5, so in general we will not be able to expand the RAM in many of the laptops with U15 and U28 processors.
The Alder Lake-P models with 45W TDP (H45) that have been leaked are as follows:
- i9-12900HS: 6 P-Core cores and 8 E-Core cores, with a maximum speed of 5 GHz.
- i7-12700HS: 6 P-Core cores and 8 E-Core cores, with a Boost of 4.9 GHz.
- i7-12700H: 6 P-Core cores and 8 E-Core cores, with a maximum speed of 4.6 GHz.
- i7-12650H: 4 P-Core and 8 E-Core cores, with a turbo speed of 4.5 GHz.
- i5-12500H: 4 P-Core cores and 8 E-Core cores, with an unknown maximum speed.
- i5-12450H: 2 P-Core cores and 8 E-Core cores, with an unknown maximum Boost.
As for the Alder Lake-P range with 28 W TDP (U28), at the moment only three different processor models have appeared.
- i7-1280P: 6 P-Core cores and 8 E-Core cores, with a maximum speed of 4.7 GHz.
- i7-1260P: 4 P-Core and 8 E-Core cores, with a maximum Boost of 4.6 GHz.
- i7-1240P: 4 P-Core and 8 E-Core cores, turbocharged at up to 4.4 GHz.
At the moment the range of ultralights with a TDP of 15 W has not been filtered, although due to the proximity of the Intel presentation this information will not take long to appear. By the way, we remember that this will take place on January 4, 2022.
This is the performance of the Alder Lake-P
Apart from the different Intel Core 12 laptop pros, their performance has also been filtered, through the results that have appeared in the Geekbench database, which belong to laptops from different manufacturers. It should be borne in mind that we are not looking at the performance of the final product, but under tests where the design of the computer in the face of cooling and consumption, as well as the fact that they are still working with engineering samples of the processors.
What do the figures tell us? Well, something that we already knew, the Intel Core 12 for laptops surpass their predecessor to the AMD Ryzen 5000 without problems, which leads us to wonder if facing the market for gaming laptops where CPU power is very important and where the iGPU is accessory if AMD has done well to continue betting on the same core in the Ryzen 6000 as in the 5000, yes, improvements are expected and it is early to make an assessment. At least we know what performance we can expect from the Alder Lake-P.
