In an unorthodox move due to the amount of samples, information and results, we now know the full range of processors that will reach gaming laptops in 2022 by Intel. We are talking about the 12 Gen Alder Lake-P that have been seen on Geekbench and that will have amazing configurations of up to 14 cores with GT3 Xe iGPUs of up to 96 EUs. The Alder Lake-P Series H and P arrive
Tiger Lake as an architecture was a step forward in notebook CPUs, but it was not enough against AMD. Intel’s renewed bet is logically Alder Lake-P, which will replace this architecture in all ranges and also its chipsets, where the most impressive thing is undoubtedly that the low range will now have no less than 10 cores.
Intel Alder Lake-P series U and H
The more direct question would be what can we expect from these new processors given the change in architecture? Well, Intel is going to put all the meat on the grill as far as efficiency is concerned and with this we will have few high-performance cores compared to previous generations, but it will include in the entire range 8 Grace Mont Cores, also known as E-Cores for this generation.
Although we will now cite the different variants of these, the platform itself will have new capabilities and features. Starting with the support for the expected Thunderbolt 4, through PCIe 5.0 and especially Wi-Fi 6E, without forgetting logically the ability to work with LPDDR5 and DDR5 for those high-performance CPUs that require it.
LPDDR5 will safely reach the low-performance and higher-efficiency versions through the Alder Lake-P, while DDR5 should reach the processors that fall within the Alder Lake-H range. On the other hand, and as was also to be expected, we will have 3 new chipsets for laptops (H45, U28 and U15) that will be included in their respective manufacturers’ motherboards, where finally all the configurations are shown as follows:
- 2 x P-Cores + 8 x E-Cores with a GT2 / GT3 GPU (U15)
- 4 x P-Cores + 8 x E-Cores with a GT2 / GT3 GPU (U28)
- 6 x P-Cores + 8 x E-Cores with a GT2 / GT3 GPU (U28)
- 4 x P-Cores + 8 x E-Cores with a GT2 / GT3 GPU (H45)
- 6 x P-Cores + 8 x E-Cores with a GT2 / GT3 GPU (H45)
- 6 x P-Cores + 8 x E-Cores with a GT2 / GT3 GPU (H45)
Up to 14 cores and 20 threads at 5 GHz
The settings are clear and we now know almost everything about them, since Geekbench has leaked a lot more data:
- i9-12900HS with 14 cores and 20 threads at 5 GHz with + 45W
- i7-12800H with 14 cores and 20 threads at 4.9 GHz with 45 watts.
- i7-12700H with 14 cores and 20 threads at 4.6 GHz with 45 watts.
- i7-12650H with 10 Cores to 16 threads at 4.5 GHz with 45 watts.
- i7-12600H with 12 Cores to 16 wires, no frequencies available, with 45 watts.
- i5-12500H with 12 Cores at 16 wires without revealing the frequency in Boost with 45 watts.
- i5-12450H with 8 cores and 12 wires without revealing the frequency in Boost with 45 watts.
This within the H series, while in the P series the options are the following:
- i7-1280P with 14 cores and 20 threads at 4.7 GHz (28W)
- i7-1260P with 12 cores and 16 threads at 4.6 GHz (28W)
- i5-1240P with 12 cores and 16 threads at 4.4 GHz (28W)
As we can see, the performance is very uneven and it is not subject to the range as such. This is what the inclusion of heterogeneous cores has brought, which makes it quite difficult to know the performance according to the range. But we also have an interesting bet for the laptop sector that will have to deal with Rembrandt from January 2022.
