Intel Alder Lake-H Mobile CPU Performance Impresses, Handily Bests Ryzen Mobile (hothardware.com)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/22/01/25/2211256/intel-alder-lake-h-mobile-cpu-performance-impresses-handily-bests-ryzen-mobile
- Source link: https://hothardware.com/reviews/core-i9-12900hk-msi-ge76-raider-review
> 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 [2]best gaming and content creation benchmark numbers ever recorded on a laptop .
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> 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.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~MojoKid
[2] https://hothardware.com/reviews/core-i9-12900hk-msi-ge76-raider-review
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.
And yet . . . (Score:1)
Intel and other chip manufacturers can't get chips out the door. So much so, that many manufacturers [1]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.
[1] https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/25/tech/chip-shortage-commerce-department-warning/index.html
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:4, Interesting)
Every time Intel puts out a new benchmark the blatant lack of transparency and rigor is exposed as a biased fraud. Yet we keep getting these sensationalist headlines like "Intel's new chip crushes AMD!". Seriously, if I want reactionary social media BS I'll hang out on Facebook or Twitter.
Power consumption/heat at peak? (Score:3)
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.
Re: (Score:1)
Yea, I'm just assuming they did this with Intel's benchmarking tools, built using Intel's compiler.
Re: (Score:3)
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.