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Intel is back it's not quite the way we all expected

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when ryzen first hit the scene back in 2017 but i don't think we could have

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hoped for a better outcome than this not just for the consumer but for the entire

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industry 12th gen core code named alder lake is like nothing we've ever seen on

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the pc to date and i'm getting some serious ryzen

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or maybe bulldozer vibes from the lateral thinking it took to put it all

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together so let's talk about the who the what the why and how this return to

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Intel's performance claims for alderlake are mostly comparing against their own

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last gen product but make no mistake they are still coming out swinging

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against AMD in gaming they say alder light gets equal or up to 30

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better performance than ryzen 5000 depending on the game and up to 50

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better than 11th gen core processors this is

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huge although there are some concerns about their methodology Intel's

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graphs mention running Windows 11 for all of their testing and that's a

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problem because if you've been keeping up with the news you'll know that

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Windows 11's new scheduler had a little problem with AMD processors that took a

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big toll on performance it's patched now

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but when they tested it definitely wasn't which means that all of these

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numbers need to be taken with a veritable pillar of salt and that's not

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even considering the potential impacts that this new hybrid architecture is

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going to have on older drm or anti-cheat

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technologies that use CPU detection while providers for these technologies

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have already begun to roll out fixes older games and apps may never receive

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any breaking compatibility but what makes it so different that drm and even

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Windows 11 scheduler might break it's more like apple's m1 processors

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with dedicated performance and efficiency cores p and e cores for short

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those allow for tasks to be intelligently delegated between the

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cores that best suit them this has fueled suspicions that Windows 11's

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problematic new scheduler was developed specifically for alder lake and i can

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see why Intel claims that each cluster of four of the e-cores fit in the same

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space as a single 6th gen skylake core

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but each are more capable per watt and i should point out despite their age

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skylight cores are very capable and usable to this day so that's saying a

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lot still that ultimately means that if all the p cores are full sending a task

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to the simplified e cores might actually be faster than using

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brute force hyper threading to split the p cores on that note hyper threading is

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only available on the p cores so we'll have to see for ourselves what that

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means for heavily threaded tasks like rendering or code compilation my guess

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is each ecore cluster will roughly equal one or two additional p cores if not

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more depending on the task but how do you even use these new cores enter

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thread director which detects what kind of work an app is doing and provides

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feedback to the operating system telling it which course those apps are best

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suited for it works kind of like speed shift or preferred core does except it's

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got the CPU directly talking to the operating system no extra drivers

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required Windows 11 already has support baked in for thread director but this

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should also work with Linux and if microsoft were to grace us with an

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update to Windows 10 it would work there too not that i'm holding my breath on the

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platforms that do support thread director it's going to be a pretty big

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deal background tasks like say a virus scan or a Windows update are going to be

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pushed onto the efficiency course which not only reduces the impact on

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foreground tasks like gaming or content creation but can also reduce power

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consumption and heat output while those tasks are running which on future mobile

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chips will mean better laptop battery life we don't have any info on those

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products right now but what we do know is that the k series desktop i5s i7s and

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i9s will all have a TDP of 125 watts in

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this generation which sounds ridiculously confusing because

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how can a core i5 have the same TDP

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as a core i9 but what Intel is doing here is such a breath of fresh air

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compared to previous releases what used to be called TDP is now processor base

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power or pbp and this is how much power the CPU is assured to have available to

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it in sustained workloads and now Intel is also advertising the maximum turbo

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power or mtp which is how much the CPU can use during boost with that

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information being disclosed now you can finally make informed decisions about

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your cooling setup not only that but k-series cpus are shipping with a

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sustained boost mode where pbp equals

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mtp effectively turning on multi-core enhancement by default and letting the

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CPU boost forever so now there's finally

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a reason to buy a k-series CPU i mean

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aside from overclocking which hey may actually be a thing again

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Intel wouldn't say how much headroom there is but their new extreme tuning

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utility is shipping with a one-click overclock function that adds a fixed 100

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megahertz across all cores so while that's a mild oc it definitely shows a

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lot of confidence in their silicon and they may have good reason to be

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confident not only does 12th gen core have a larger footprint in the updated

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lga 1700 socket it's also built on

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Intel's long-awaited 10 nanometer superfin process now called Intel 7

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because thanks to marketing nanometers have lost all meaning in ship making ice

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lake was the first to use this process but suffered from frequency issues that

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tiger lake largely resolved can i just say that it's

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really fitting that it would be under Intel's new ceo pat gelsinger that the

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new process would finally be ready for the desktop he was the chief technology

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officer back in 2008 when Intel first spoke about 10 nanometer like it's it's

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like they kept the seat warm for him but six generations of 14 nanometer chips

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they could have you know just used a water bottle from ltdstore.com would

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have been a lot cheaper for sure right the new v2 ones even have an Intel

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inspired design there's more to the platform than just

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nanometers and cores though Intel is shipping the first consumer CPU to use

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pci express gen 5 which

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feels really soon after gen 4 doesn't it

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although it was kind of like this with gen 1 through 3 it just took a long time

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for gen 4 to come around to the consumer market the benefits of pci express gen 5

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though aren't super clear just yet but

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as with gen 4 it doubles the bandwidth over its predecessor and once cards are

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available to take advantage of it it could allow for far more flexible lane

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arrangements for things like bifurcation because here's the thing eight lanes of

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gen 5 is equivalent to 16 lanes of gen 4

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or even 32 lanes of gen 3.

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man we are firing on all cylinders now it's kind of like the innovation that we

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missed out on in the 2010s is all just hitting us at once now this is great

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12th gen core cpus are going to ship with a combination of pci express gen 5

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and gen 4. perhaps the most useful improvement for right now though is the

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upgraded gen 4 link to the new 600 series chipsets which is double the

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bandwidth of both the outgoing 500 series and AMD's x570 platform not only

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that but the chipset now supports up to 28 gen 4 lanes taken together

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this should make it a lot easier for z690s new integrated wi-fi 6e and

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standard 2.5 gig Ethernet to coexist with things like 10 gig Ethernet and 20

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gig usb ports additional storage and more also

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it's not common but Intel is curiously supporting a dedicated clock generator

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for more reliable base clock overclocking wouldn't expect to see

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these outside of enthusiast boards though because who actually does that

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alder lake is also the first x86 CPU to ship with support for ddr5 now like many

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transition chips the memory controller on alder lake is compatible with both

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ddr5 and last generation ddr4 but it should

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be noted that you can't run both at the same time ddr5 could end up being one of

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the most interesting things about alder lake because it is a huge departure from

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just about everything we know about computer memory i've got a full deep

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dive on what is different about it it went up yesterday you guys are going to

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want to check that out the tl dr though is that internal bottlenecks have been

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removed the power management has been moved on to each dim and it provides

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much more granular overclocking control Intel's xmp3 memory overclocking spec

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also allows manufacturers to include up to three separate profiles now and

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includes two user-specified profile blocks with descriptive names for things

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like high bandwidth mode or low latency

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mode including per module voltage

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control each of the profiles are crc checksum so if anything should happen to

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corrupt one the system will actually know about it instead of happily moving

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that decimal point and letting up the magic smoke as for the hardware vendors

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self-certification is free of charge which should speed up adoption of xmp3

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perhaps even among lower-end memory kits that's not all Intel's doing with memory

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though where 11th gen core brought the ability to toggle xmp manually after the

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pc has been booted dynamic memory boost is a new feature that can automatically

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toggle it based on load it's something like turbo boost but for RAM this means

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that you can save on power and thermal output while retaining the benefits of

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high speed memory when you need it which might not be a big deal for desktops but

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for laptops this is going to be huge there's no

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software operating system support needed for it either it's entirely handled by

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the CPU and the BIOS so even something esoteric like temple os can use it Intel

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says that it's also usable with ddr4 so you don't even need to buy in on

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expensive ddr5 right away to use it either this will depend on BIOS support

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though and Intel says it'll be rolling out shortly after release

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which will be november 4th when we'll be validating Intel's performance claims

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and checking out the rest of the platform the core 9 12 900k is going to

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be priced at an eye watering 589

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that's a fair bit less than the leak suggested but it is still 50 dollars

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more than the 11900k and 40 dollars more

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than a ryzen 9 5900x a CPU that has no

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efficiency cores just performance course and

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50 more of them there's going to be some spicy

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benchmarks coming your way next week like i've been getting goosebumps

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thinking about all the innovations that AMD and Intel are going to have to make

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over the coming years now that they are at each other's throats again properly

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and we've finally got an engineer back in charge at Intel

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AMD for their part are expecting their next gen Ryzen processors with v cash

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to get up to a 25 gaming improvement and

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a 15 improvement overall if that is true

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Intel and AMD may end up neck and neck in terms of gaming performance by the

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end of the year and it'll be AMD's turn once again to pull off a little magic

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trick don't you love that CPU leapfrog that's my favorite dance

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Linus and then use code minus go check out our recent first look at ddr5 for a

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more technical deep dive on what that means for the industry and your next pc

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going forward thanks for watching

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indeed