Is Intel 12th Gen i9 Alder Lake really the Apple M1 Max KILLER?

Apple M1 pro and M1 chips destroyed intel's chip market. But on the occasion of Intel’s 2021 Architecture Day, the company revealed Alder Lake, their next-generation mainstream client SoC and according to benchmarks, Intel’s Alder Lake-P Core i7-12700H is faster than Apple’s latest laptop M1 chips, almost 1.5 times as fast in multi-core performance.

The Core i7-12700H is an H45-class processor with 6 Golden Cove (P) cores and 8 Gracemont (E) cores (14C/20T) that relates to what we now know as Alder Lake-P. Alder Lake-P is touted to include TDP ranges from 12 W to 45 W, essentially supplanting mainstream U and H series processors into a combined family.

As we all know that there are no Alder Lake-based laptops out yet, the first benchmarks have already begun popping up. Almost all of the tests show positive results for the upcoming 12th generation of Intel’s CPUs against some of its most important rivals.

Cinebench examined the Core i7-12700H in R20 and R23, including both single and multi-core performance. Analyzing the Cinebench R20 single scores, it's observed that pre-sample leak with a score of 689 points is nearly 12% faster than the average Core i9-11950H and 21% faster than AMD's Ryzen 9 5900HX. 

 

Cinebench R20 multi sees the Core i7-12700H in the pre-sample settling up an awesome show with 7158 points. This is almost 47% faster than the average AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX. This is in line with the previous closed Geekbench leak that showed the Core i9-12900HK to be 61.3% faster than the Ryzen 9 5980HX in Geekbench.

 

Compared to the Tiger Lake-H Core i9-11950H average, the pre-sample Core i7-12700H is about 53% while the performance delta further increases to 82% against an average Core i9-10980HK.

Writer - Sahil Madaan

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