Intel's Alder Lake Laptop CPUs Are Ridiculously Powerful
Reviews coming in for Intel's Alder Lake laptop CPUs suggest that they are not only miles ahead of their AMD counterparts in terms of real-world performance, but also a significant improvement over their immediate predecessors. Previews and early benchmarks for the new laptop chips earlier this month suggested that the Alder Lake CPU chips will be the new yardstick in the segment, and the latest testing scores seem to confirm those reports.
Intel announced its 12th-generation Core laptop processors earlier in January. The lineup is led by the top-of-the-line Core i9-12900HK, which the company proclaimed as the world's fastest laptop chip. Early benchmarks have already shown it to be beating both AMD's and Apple's laptop processors in several applications, and the full-fledged reviews seem to underscore those earlier findings.
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In PC World's test, the 14-core Core i9-12900HK beat the 8-core Ryzen 9 5900HX in both multi-core and single-core scores in virtually all apps and benchmark indices. In the 3D modeling benchmark index Cinebench R23, the Intel chip reportedly trumped the AMD processor by almost 17 percent. It proved even more potent against its own predecessor, the 8-core 11th-gen Core i9-11980HK, which trailed the new chip by 27 percent in the same benchmark. While the 14-core behemoth was always expected to get the better of chips with a lower core count, single-core benchmarks also show just how fast the new Intel chip really is. In Cinebench R23's single-core tests, the 12th-gen Core i9 scored 27 percent better than the Ryzen 9 and 17 percent higher than the 11th-gen Core i9.
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