In an unorthodox move due to the sheer amount of samples, information and results, we now know the full line of processors that will hit gaming laptops in 2022 from Intel. We are talking about the 12 Gen Alder Lake-P which have been seen on Geekbench which will have amazing configurations up to 14 cores with GT3 Xe iGPUs up to 96 EU. Alder Lake-P’s H and P series are coming
Tiger Lake as an architecture was a step forward in laptop processors, 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 is undoubtedly that the low range will now have no less than 10 cores.
Intel Alder Lake-P U y H series
The most direct question would be what can we expect from these new processors given the change in architecture? Okay, Intel is going to put all the meat on the grill when it comes to efficiency and with that we will have few performing cores compared to previous generations, but it will include in the whole range 8 Grace Mont Cores, also known as E- Cores for this generation.
Although we will now name the different variations of these, the platform itself will have new capabilities and features. Starting with the expected Thunderbolt 4 support, going through PCIe 5.0 and especially Wi-Fi 6E, logically not forgetting the possibility of working with LPDDR5 and DDR5 for high performance CPUs that need it.
LPDDR5 will safely reach lower performance and higher efficiency versions via Alder Lake-P, while DDR5 is expected to reach processors belonging to the Alder Lake-H line. On the other hand, and as expected, we will have 3 new chipsets for laptops (H45, U28 and U15) that will be included in the motherboards of their respective manufacturers, where finally all the configurations are presented as follows :
- 2 x P-Cores + 8 x E-Cores with a GT2 / GT3 (U15) GPU
- 4 x P-Cores + 8 x E-Cores with a GT2 / GT3 (U28) GPU
- 6 x P-Cores + 8 x E-Cores with GT2 / GT3 (U28) GPU
- 4 x P-Cores + 8 x E-Cores with a GT2 / GT3 (H45) GPU
- 6 x P-Cores + 8 x E-Cores with GT2 / GT3 (H45) GPU
- 6 x P-Cores + 8 x E-Cores with GT2 / GT3 (H45) GPU
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 disclosed 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 16 threads at 4.5 GHz with 45 watts.
- i7-12600H with 12 cores with 16 wires, no frequencies available, with 45 watts.
- i5-12500H with 12 Cores with 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 in the H series, while in the P series the options are as follows:
- 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 can be seen, the yield is very uneven and it is not subject to the range as such. This is what the inclusion of heterogeneous cores brought about, which makes it quite difficult to know the performance depending on the range. But we also have an interesting bet for the laptop sector which will have to deal with Rembrandt from January 2022.
