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On October 27th, Intel launched its new generation of processors named Alder Lake with the K models, from i5-12600K to i9-12900K. Today, at CES 2022, we see the launch of the rest of the desktop and mobile range with more than 50 new CPUs, 28 for laptops and 22 for desktops.
Intel Core 12900HK: faster than AMD and Apple?
It is during this CES 2022 that Intel has just announced its new mobile processors, with 3 distinct ranges: H-series (Processor Base Power of 45W), P-series (PBP of 28W) and U-series (PBP of 9W and 15W) allowing to cover all the segments of laptop, from the ultraportable thin and light, to the laptop ” Enthusiast ” for the video game.
Alder Lake-H uses a hybrid architecture with up to 14 cores (6 P-cores and 8 E-cores) accompanied by support for several memories, such as DDR4-3200, DDR5-4800, LPDDR5-5200 and LPDDR4x-4267. The connectivity side is not forgotten either, with Wi-Fi 6E and Thunberdolt 4, PCIe 4.0 is also present with 8 lines for a DGPU and 2×4 lines for 2 SSDs.
With Alder Lake-H and its flagship model namely the i9-12900HK, Intel poses as having the fastest processor on the market in terms of performance per watt (based on SPECint 2017), surpassing the i9-11980HK and R9 5900HX but also Apple’s M1 Max in terms of performance using the same number of watts, but can expand to more than 75W and thus offer up to 50% more performance compared to the other three processors.
The i9-12900HK allows itself to be the best mobile processor for video games, with up to 28% on average, performance compared to the i9-11980HK and R9-5900HX, on a panel of 19 games tested in 1080p and high graphics on laptops with identical configurations.
Content creators will not be outdone, with the i9-12900HK offering +44% performance on Premiere Pro and +10% on Lightroom compared to the i9-11980HK or +14% and +9% on Autodesk AutoCAD and Revit. At the same time, the processor also allows itself to beat the competition consisting of the R9-5900HX and M1 Pro/Max.
More than 100 different laptop designs will already be available, ranging from ultraportables to the ” Halo Enthusiast” laptop , making Alder Lake-H one of Intel’s fastest launches.
As for the features of the entire lineup, we’ll leave you with the tables containing the main information of the H, P and U-series versions.
[nextpage title=”Desktop range fully unveiled”] In parallel to the mobile processors, Intel unveils the rest of the desktop range with more than 22 new models.
New processors, chipsets and fans :
This new range of non-K processors will be oriented towards the general public, and will offer new cooling solutions delivered with the CPU. Three new fans are launched, with the RH1 for i9 which will offer a quasi-silence and with aRGB LED, the RM1 for i7, i5 and i3 and RS1 for Pentium and Celeron. All the heatsinks will be guaranteed for 3 years.
It is Alder Lake non-K, despite a PBP reduced to 65W still offers superior performance to the competition and the previous generation of Intel processors, both in video games and content creation.
On Lightroom, Premiere Pro and Nero Score benchmarks , Intel compares its i5-12600 to the R7-5700G with 18%, 31% and 17% higher performance respectively and which can go up to +39%, 43% and 37% when compared this time to the i9-12900, making its processors leaders in content creation.
On the gaming side, the i9-12900 offers an average of 15% better performance than i9-11900 on 5 different titles, making it a very good processor for mainstream gamers.
The non-K Alder Lake processors will be accompanied by 3 new chipsets: H670, B660 and H610.
The H670 will be almost identical to the Z690, but will not have the ability to overclock the cores, however the features will not be that different, with only 4 lines of PCIe 3.0 and 2 USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 (20G) less.
The B660 will be more restricted with up to 6 lines of PCIe 4.0 and 8 of PCIe 3.0, while the H610, which represents the lower end of the range, will not have access to PCIe 4.0, but all the chipsets will come with Wi-Fi 6E support. For the rest of the information about the processor models launched, all the figures can be found on the tables below.
