The Intel 12th Gen Core i9-12900K Review: Hybrid Performance Brings Hybrid Complexity
by Dr. Ian Cutress & Andrei Frumusanu on November 4, 2021 9:00 AM ESTCPU Benchmark Performance: Intel vs AMD
Here are the graphs you've probably be wanting to see. Here we've listed Intel's last few flagships, along with AMD's Zen 3 offerings. In no particular order, here is the CPU performance.
It's hard to miss a lot of blue bars at the top of these charts. ST performance usually reigns supreme, and it shines though. Intel does take a few other wins here in multi-threaded as well, and users will point to CineBench. CB loves lightweight threads and cores, and with the combined improvements in the out-of-order window in both cores as well as memory access improvements into the L2 caches.
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blanarahul - Thursday, November 4, 2021 - link
"Using all the eight E-cores, at 3.9 GHz, brings the package power up to 48 W total."This sounds amazing for inexpensive (i3 class) laptop processors since Gracemont sips power and doesn't take much die space.
Great_Scott - Thursday, November 4, 2021 - link
I'd actually prefer a all-Gracemont CPU for Laptops. Seems like it would be better for intentionally maximizing battery life. Skylake+ level performance is perfect for most use cases.TheinsanegamerN - Thursday, November 4, 2021 - link
Indeed, they have it backwards for laptops, it should be 2-6 gracemont cores then 1-2 power cores for a CPU, not the other way around.karmapop - Thursday, November 4, 2021 - link
I'm guessing you missed the articles describing the two separate mobile dies for Alder Lake? We've got Alder Lake-P (6P + 8E) for performance mobile designs, and Alder Lake-M (2P + 8E) for the ultra mobile low power SKUs.at_clucks - Saturday, November 6, 2021 - link
I'm very happy with exactly-Skylake-level performance in my desktop :). I'd more than gladly take the same performance and cut the power in half. I'm sure there's quite a big market for that kind of performance in a lower powered package regardless of form factor (mobile, desktop).Meteor2 - Tuesday, November 9, 2021 - link
There really is. I may well pick up a 2P+8E ADL laptop, but a desktop box would suit me bettermode_13h - Wednesday, November 10, 2021 - link
Keep an eye on ASRock. They sell mini-ITX motherboards with that class of SoC.https://www.asrock.com/mb/index.us.asp#Intel%20CPU
Spunjji - Friday, November 5, 2021 - link
That's actually not great in power terms compared to what AMD can do with 8 Zen 3 cores on TSMC N7 - but yeah, in the context of die area, something built around (say) 2 P cores and 4 E cores can probably put in a very good showing for inexpensive devices.Netmsm - Thursday, November 4, 2021 - link
Becomes competitive to previous AMD's.EnglishMike - Thursday, November 4, 2021 - link
Previous AMDs support DDR5 and PCR 5.0?Huh. That one slipped by me...