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 ryzen 4000
and maybe even longer oh and this thing also has an RTX 3080 TI in it so just
how much better will laptops be in 2022 I'll show you right after I show you
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ge76 we have the new Intel Core I9 12900
HK a 10 nanometer CPU based on Intel's
Alderly 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 12900 HK 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
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 press processor and in GPU bound games at 4K we see around a 15
increase thanks to the 3080 TI the performance improvements in 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 38 TI mobile is still a
fair ways off the 10 240 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 fifteen hundred dollars 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 multi-threaded 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 AMD 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 and
laptops but I'm super glad we did today because otherwise it would have been
pretty hard to believe the 45 increase
in battery life with Alder Lake and the 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 older like laptop that is optimized for battery life rather than
performance to see if they closed the Gap we already saw in a 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 media encoder wasn't taking the brunt of
the workload based off that we can pretty safely say the I9 12900 HK and
the RTX 3080 TI it'll perform the omax in basically everything but like
this laptop doesn't fit in my backpack and goes through battery life faster
than the last verse of rattling bog it freaking better outperform a MacBook
where this battle will get a lot more interesting is when we start seeing how
Alder like holds up in laptops like the XPS 15 and nv14 that are powerful but
designed with good battery life in mind fortunately Intel has given laptop
makers tons of CPUs to experiment with this generation 28 of them to be exact
the H or Halo series are the super
powerful boys like the 12900 HK that we've been testing of those the I5
12500h really sticks out to me it gets
4p cores and eight e-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 if you get an LTT mouse pad
ltdstore.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
Ultrabook or thinner gaming laptops top tier i7 1280p sounds like a weird
resolution but is actually pretty similar to the 12900 HK with a much
lower power budget the rest of the P series have four P cores and eight
e-cores potentially leading to some very versatile laptops this is where AMD and
maybe even Apple might be scared moving to proper thinning lights we get Intel's
u-series processors most of which have two P cores and eight e-cores these are
going to be rather confusing because there are both 15 watt and 9 watt
versions but they share the same names uh Intel want to have the 15 watt
version be the i7 1265u and the 9 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 they'll
also have 40 less performance to Intel's credit though normally we
find something dumb and confusing about their lineup immediately for 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 CPUs if we take AMD by their word the
1.3 times Improvement in 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 a cores will be able to take on Intel's 14
and multi-threaded applications while Rembrandt does have going for it
though our rdna2 Graphics aka the same
Graphics that power the Xbox series X and PlayStation 5. AMD says there will
be double the graphics performance available and there's even Ray tracing
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have an answer for this um 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 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
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