Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “This is Stupid Fast – Intel 12th Gen Mobile Review”.
Laptops just got a whole lot faster. For years, Intel has barely improved their mobile CPU performance. And when they did, they sacrificed thermals and battery life.. Today that changes. In this laptop, we have 14 CPU cores that can clock up to five gigahertz., While also improving the battery life.
This is the biggest generational uplift in laptop performance, since at least rising 4,000, and maybe even longer.. Oh – and this thing also has an RTX 3080Ti in it., So just how much better will laptops be in 2022. I’Ll show you right after I show you the segue to our sponsor iFixit., Thanks to iFixit for sponsoring this video. iFixit’s ImAGenius campaign highlights leaders and the right to repair movement and shows the world that every repair is an act of genius.
Watch until the end of The video to find out how you can show the world your act of genius and how to enter to win $ 100 to the iFixit store. (, upbeat music ). In this MSI GE76. We have the new Intel Core: i9 12900HK.: A 10 nanometers CPU, based on Intel’s Alder Lake, which has already dominated the desktop space.
Alder Lake is a new CPU architecture that utilizes both performance and efficiency. Cores.. In the case of the 12900HK, you get six performance and eight efficiency for a total of 20 threads.. That’S the most.
We have ever seen in a mobile processor. For our testing. We have two nearly identical GE76 Raiders from MSI.. The old model has an 11th Gen i9, with an RTX 3080.
And as of yesterday, this was about the fastest laptop money could buy. As the first proper 10 nanometer implementation from Intel.. It was already a huge improvement over its 10th Gen predecessor., But it’s not yesterday. Anymore., How much faster is the 12th Gen in games 15 % pretty much across the board. In CPU bound games. At 1080P we see around a 15 % increase thanks to the 12th Gen processor. And in CPU bound games. At 4K, we see around a 15 % increase thanks to the 3080 Ti.. The performance improvements and the 3080 Ti are fairly straightforward.. We get 1200 more CUDA Cores than the normal 3080 Mobile and 10 extra watts to power them..
If you happen to really know your GPU specs, though the 3080 Ti Mobile, is still a fair ways off the 10240 CUDA Cores of the desktop 3080.. What I’m more interested in, though, is the mobile RTX 3070 Ti., Judging by the specs, I’m guessing the performance difference between it and a mobile 3080 will be barely noticeable. And laptops.
The 3070 Ti start at $ 1,500 still a lot of cash, but not too bad. If you looked at the desktop card prices, recently. Moving from gaming to productivity, Alder Lake really starts to shine..
The multithreaded performance improvement is staggering, with a 45 % increase in Cinebench. And the domination just continues in all of our other benchmarks.. This is extraordinarily bad news for Andy, since multi-core performance was kind of their thing, but AMD’s real advantage on mobile. This whole time has been efficiency..
How has Intel done there Very well.? We rarely get the opportunity to properly test out gen over gen battery life in laptops, but I’m super glad we did today because otherwise, it would’ve been pretty hard to believe the 45 % increase in battery life with Alder Lake. And MSI GE76 Raider. That takes us from a barely usable four and a half hours of YouTube, viewing to a manageable six and a half.. But like that’s six and a half hours in a laptop with the largest battery you can legally take on a plane.
Intel was very far behind AMD and Apple in terms of efficiency.. So we’ll have to wait until we get an Alder Lake laptop that is optimized for battery life rather than performance to see if they close the gap.. We already saw an our review of the M1 Max that Apple doesn’t have as big of a performance lead as they would have you think. Back then.
The Asus Zephyrus G16, with an 11th Gen i9 and RTX 3060, thoroughly embarrassed the M1 Max in basically every situation where the median coder wasn’t taking the brunt of the workload. Based off that we can pretty safely say the i9 12900HK and the RTX 3080 Ti outperformed. The M1 Max in basically everything. But like this laptop, doesn’t fit in my backpack and goes through battery life faster than the last verse of Rosalynn Borg.. It freaking better outperform a MacBook. Where this battle will get a lot more interesting is when we start seeing how Alder Lake holds up in laptops like the XPS 15 and AMD 14.
That are powerful, but designed with good battery life in mind.. Fortunately, Intel has given laptop makers tons of CPU’s to experiment with this generation. 28 of them to be exact..
The H or Halo series are the super powerful boys, like the 12900HK, that we’ve been testing. Of those. The i5 12500H really sticks out to me..
It gets 4P cores and 8E cores, which means that it might be able to dominate the mid range gaming laptop segment., Just like you’ll be able to dominate the competition.. You get an LTT desk, pad. lttstore.com. Anyway dropping the TDP down from scorching to warm. We get Intel’s new P-series processors for thinner designs that still want a fair bit of power.. Think of like a 14-inch ultra book or thinner gaming, laptops. Top tier i7 1280P sounds like a weird resolution, but is actually pretty similar to the 12900HK with a much lower power. Budget., The rest of the P-series have 4P cores and 8E cores potentially eating some very versatile laptops..
This is where AMD and maybe even Apple might be scared. Moving to proper, thinner lights via Intel’s U-series processors., Most of which have 2P cores and 8E cores.. These are going to be rather confusing because there are both 15 watt and nine watt versions, but they share the same names.. Oh Intel, wan na have the 15 watt version be the i7 1265U and the nine watt version be the i7 1260U..
This is going to have a massive impact on both performance and battery life. And I could see a consumer being like “. Oh these two laptops.
They have the same processor, but one gets four hours more battery, life. I’ll get that one.”. But what they don’t know is that the also have 40 % less performance.
To Intel’s credit, though normally we find something dumb and confusing about their lineup immediately. This generation we got 1138 words into the script., So that’s an improvement.. What does all this mean for AMD, though? Are they going to be stuck just playing second fiddle once again, My guess, it will be more of a use case. Dependent sort of thing. During CES AMD announced the new Ryzen 6000 Rembrandt CPU’s.. If we take AMD by their word, the 1.3 times, improvement and compute might be able to bring them to a similar level of single core performance as Intel’s Alder Lake.
AMD doesn’t have a hybrid architecture though., So I doubt AMD’s. Eight cores will be able to take on Intel’s 14 and multithreaded applications., While Rembrandt does have going forth, though RDNA two graphics. AKA, the same graphics, the power of the Xbox Series X and PlayStation five. AMD says there will be double the graphics performance available and there’s Even ray tracing support on a freaking APU.
Get subscribed because I’m super excited to review these when they come. Out. Does Alder Lake have an answer for this No. In here we have the same Iris, Xe, graphics, with 96 execution units as before.
Just with a 0.05 gigahertz clock, speed, improvement., But hey we’ve got to give AMD something here., It’s crazy. What a bit of competition can do. And Intel, I’m really glad you’ve come back to join the party.. The real party, though, are always my segues to our sponsor iFixit., Thanks again to iFixit for sponsoring today’s video.
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