Will the Alder Lake-P CPU lineup mark the return of Intel as the chip king?
Although laptops powered by Intel's 12th-gen Alder Lake chips are not expected to launch until Q1 2022, several benchmark scores for chips such as the Core i9-12900HK and Core i7-12800H have already appeared. More recently, reporters at Notebookcheck.net got early access to Cinebench R20 and R23 scores for the Core i7-12700H CPU, which most likely belongs to an upcoming MSI laptop.
Although the screenshots only show benchmark scores for the Core i7-12700H CPU, based on the BIOS version, Notebookcheck.net's reporters believe this could be the MSI GE76 Raider that MSI is expected to introduce in the near future.
As a high-end gaming laptop, it would not be surprising if this turns out to be a system equipped with Intel's high-performance Alder Lake-P CPU lineup, such as the Core i7-12700H.
According to Intel's introduction, the Core i7-12700H is an H45-class processor in the Alder Lake-P family, with 6 Golden Cove (P) cores and 8 Gracemont cores, for a total of 14 cores and 20 threads. With Alder Lake-P's TDP ranging from 12W to 45W, this processor family is essentially a blend of the U-series and H-series lines.
Intel has typically outpaced AMD in single-core performance, while AMD has held the crown in multi-threaded performance. But starting with Intel's 11th-gen chips, that line has gradually blurred with Intel's Tiger Lake-H and AMD's Zen 3 Cezanne lineup. Now, with Alder Lake-P, Intel appears to be pulling clearly ahead of its rival.
Looking at the Cinebench R20 single-core score, the Core i7-12700H reaches 689 points, making it about 12% faster than the Core i9-11950H and 21% faster than the Ryzen 9 5900H, AMD's competing flagship chip.
Meanwhile, the Cinebench R20 multi-core score also shows the Core i7-12700H reaching 7158, making it up to 47% faster than AMD's Ryzen 9 5900H. That figure is also in line with another Geekbench result showing the Core i9-12900HK running 61.3% faster than AMD's Ryzen 9 5980HX.
The comparison becomes even more interesting when Intel's processor is stacked against the M1 SoC from Apple, which is well known for its extremely strong performance and energy efficiency. While there are no single-core performance scores, the multi-core result in Cinebench R23 shows the Core i7-12700H posting a huge score of 18,501 points, making it not only 47% faster than the Ryzen 9 5900HX but also up to 49% faster than the M1 Max.
In any case, there is still no official information on the performance of these processors, so we will likely need to wait for more details to get a fuller picture of the power of Intel's new chips.
Even so, these leaked figures point to a major step forward for Intel in processor performance, after years of trailing rivals AMD and, more recently, Apple in both performance and technology. Still, this position may only be temporary, as AMD's Ryzen 6000 Rembrandt lineup with a new architecture is expected to launch in early 2022, bringing more significant gains in performance.
Source: Notebookcheck
