Intel has sent a reference MSI gaming laptop with Core i9-12900HK to some of the reviewers across the globe and the reviews have shown that it shreds apart from the competition thanks to its 14 cores, however, the power consumption and thermals remain an issue to be seen on upcoming Intel-powered laptops.
Macworld pointed out that in the review of PCWorld, their sister publication, this MSI GE76 Raider Laptop performed very well in the latest benchmarks showing its prowess over Apple’s recently announced M1 Max chip.
As the Geekbench 5 results show, this Alder Lake Core i9-12900HK scores a massive 13,235 points in multi-core while the M1 Pro with 10 cores scores only 12,544 points and the M1 Max closes in at 12,590 points.
So, you see there’s a 5% improvement over Apple’s best offering by Intel regardless of having 4 extra cores and being more power-hungry no doubt. While in single-core the Core i9-12900HK is 3.5% better than the Apple flagship, however, as Macworld points out the competition is very close with a very nominal difference between the two but the Intel chip wins in most cases.
In Geekbench 5 OpenCL benchmark, as you see, there’s a clear advantage of this MSI GE76 Raider with Core i9-12900HK and RTX 3080 Ti, posting a massive score of 143,594 points compared to Apple M1 Max’s 59774 only. This goes to show the immense performance of this gaming laptop and the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is one heck of a monster.
Now coming to Cinebench R23, which is a 3D modelling and is a multi-threaded test, the Alder Lake CPU has a clear advantage over Apple’s like the more the cores, the better is the performance. Though the Intel flagship might draw more power it’s worth it as the Core i9-12900HK posts a score of 15981 points, which is can push even further as this is an overclockable model.
On the other hand, the Apple M1 Pro scores only 12,381 points, which is no doubt good but nowhere near to Intel’s beastly scores. Even in the single-core test, the Core i9-12900HK posts a score of 1895 points which is far better than Apple M1 Pro’s 1531 points, showing a clear dominance in both the tests.
It has been reported by PCWorld that at the peak workload of Cinebench R23, the Alder Lake mobile flagship ends up drawing 130 and 140 watts, being consisting of that 100-watt TDP range. On the other hand, as Macworld points out in AnandTech‘s testing in the Cinebench R23 benchmark, there was a peak power draw of 39.7 watts i.e. 40 watts against Intel’s consistent 100W TDP.
While there’s a wide report that this MSI GE76 Raider with Core i9-12900HK is not the most efficient chip against the competition from both Apple and AMD, however, there’s an improvement over the previous-gen. Even in our testing of the ASUS ROG Zephyrus M16, which was indeed the best gaming laptop of 2021, there was an immense power draw while the performance was top-notch at the cost of efficiency.
However, this time with Alder Lake, the mix of P-cores and E-cores have helped this MSI GE76 Raider to give up to 6 hours of offline video playback and that’s a good improvement over last-gen. However, this is nowhere near the MacBook Pro’s 17 hours, here’s the difference we notice the efficiency and usage of both systems, the Intel flagship laptop might cost $4000 and that is a lot less than a MacBook Pro, which is already very expensive.
Intel has indeed made huge improvements over last-gen no doubt and has also answered its competitions from both Apple and AMD in a sound way but as a user, you have to decide what kind of use cases you want to go for before opting for any.
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