Intel surprised us a few days ago with its processors for high-end notebooks with a TDP of up to 55 W. We are referring to the Intel Core 12 HX range. These are desktop chips suited to work in workstations and high-end portable gaming systems. Well, the first tests of Core i7-12800HX processor performance for laptops.
In the world of laptops, there are many variations, from fully portable ultralights to powerful systems for gaming. Intel’s latest invention to continue dominating the market? Run the same processors as the desktop, but soldered to the laptop board via BGA inste ad of using a traditional socket. In addition to making certain cuts in the clock speed to be able to achieve a TDP of 55 W only for the processor. This leads to the need for special models to mount these processors.
For the rest, a Intel Core 12 HX is exactly the same as desktop models, since it is the same chip. Its main difference? Laptop chips are made up of up to 6 P-Cores and 8 E-Cores, while desktop chips have up to 8 P-Cores. We can therefore expect an increase in performance compared to the more powerful Intel Core 12H. But, to what extent is there a difference between the two processors of the brand today led by Pat Gelsinger.
i7-12800HX vs i7-12700H, which is better?
Using two Lenovo laptops with nearly identical specs as a baseline: an RTX 3070 Ti graphics card, the same amount of RAM, and the same storage unit. The comparison between two processors has been made. On the one hand, a i7-12700H
As you can see from one of the many test graphs, both the i7-12700H and i7-12800HX are tied. Indeed, these are benchmarks running on a single core and we have to assume that the base clock speed is identical. On the other hand, when it comes to gaming performance and running vseveral of them at 1080P with an RTX 3070 Ti for laptops
What conclusions can we draw from these figures? We’d like to see the numbers with games running at 1440p, mainly due to the fact that most laptops with this processor will run panels at this resolution. And it is with a greater number of pixels on the screen that it will be there that the graphics card will be drowned the most. Thus, the lower time per frame is achieved by having a faster processor. Let’s not forget that games are the application capable of using all possible cores well. This is because entire threads and process cores are assigned to various common tasks.