One of the world’s first assessments of Intel’s new mobile Core i9-12900HK (Alder Lake) processor was published yesterday by the Romanian tech review site Lab 501. In Cinebench R20, the CPU surpassed AMD’s desktop Ryzen Threadripper 1950X, thanks to Intel’s all-new hybrid core microarchitecture.
Intel’s new flagship mobile part for the 12th Generation Core series will be the Core i9-12900HK. On paper, it’s a significant advance over Intel’s 11th Generation mobile chips, with six P-cores and eight E-cores, 24MB of L3 cache, and a maximum clock of 5 GHz.
In practice, the chip fulfils all of the specifications. The Core i9-12900HK achieves an excellent Cinebench R20 score of 6,741 points, which is greater than any mobile CPU we’ve seen to date and equivalent to Intel’s desktop Core i5-12600K. This is down to the additional core count of the E-cores and the improved IPC of the Golden Cove cores.
With a score of 5,772 points, Intel’s previous mobile flagship, the Core i9-11980HK, is about 1,000 points behind the new Alder Lake part. With a score of 5,229 points, one of AMD’s top-tier mobile processors, the Ryzen 9 5900HX, sits even further down.
Most notably, the Core i9-12900HK is the first mobile CPU to outperform the baseline Ryzen Threadripper 1950X score of 6,670 points in Cinebench R20 (which you can find by installing the app for yourself). Given that the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X is a 180W behemoth with 16 core Zen cores meant for desktops, this is an outstanding performance.
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Why would you compare a current gen CPU to one on AMD’s 3 generation old Zen1 architecture originally launched 5 years ago?
That seems highly disingenuous.