One of the novelties in terms of notebooks with 12th generation Intel Core processors will be a new form factor based on the use of a central processing unit with 28 W TDP, which will be sold as a high-end “ultralight”. Well, the first representative of this form factor already has benchmarks, specifically those of the i5-1250P. Are the new CPUs competitive for this new type of notebook?
The competition between Intel and AMD in notebooks is sharp, but this works differently than in conventional tower PCs. The difference is that the CPU is not sold to the end user, but to the manufacturer or assembler of the laptop who will assemble a computer from the specifications given by one of the two processor manufacturers.
It’s not just about having the most powerful processor, but also the one that allows for lighter and thinner form factors in order to attract the attention of the average buyer. This requires CPUs designed to work with a different TDP than usual in laptops, the i5-1250P is one of these CPUs.
This is how the Intel Core i5-1250P performs
There are only a few weeks left for the first laptops with Intel Core 12 processors to hit the market and it is totally normal for manufacturers to test their designs with the different benchmarks. Well, the Core i5-1250P what form of calls CPU U28 Intel has been seen in Geekbench 5 and with very positive results.
We have to assume that the i5-1250pP is not the top of the range of the Alder Lake-P models with 28 W of TDP, so there are better ones. It is a processor with 4 performance cores, P-Core, and 8 efficient, E-Core, so it can handle up to 16 simultaneous threads. As for your base clock speed, this is 2.1 GHz, while Boost speeds are 3.7 GHz in all nuclei and 4.4 GHz in 2 of them.
And how about its performance? Well, as you can see by the numbers, the i5-1250P brings out the colors of the previous generation i7-11800H with a result of 1,611 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core test vs. 1,467 points of his rival. If we go to the multicore test then we talk about 8,789 points for the 12th generation processor and 7,933 points for the Tiger Lake-H.
It is a 10% difference, but if we take into account that the i5-1250P is a processor with a TDP of 28 W and the i7-11800H is 45W So this makes it clear that it is a testament to the higher performance per watt of Intel’s new architecture.
High-end ultralights vs. AMD
For some time now, Intel has decided to create new form factors based on using a processor with a TDP different from the classics of 15 W Y 45 W that have become standardized over time. In the case of generation 11 they launched the 35 W ones and now with Alder Lake-P they will launch the 28 W ones.
The reason for going outside the norm is to achieve exclusive laptop designs that for reasons of consumption and heat cannot use AMD CPUs. In other words, it’s the creation of unanswered spaces by Pat Gelsinger’s that Lisa’s have no processors for. Although at this point we need to know how they will perform at the level of other components such as the GPU and RAM.
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