14-core Alder Lake-P processor splutters through Geekbench test with the usual curious results but retains promise of great things for Intel's 10 nm hybrid generation

[Redaktion]

An Alder Lake-P engineering sample has been spotted on Geekbench offering up a mixed bag of results that might not overawe anyone at the moment but does hint at greater things to come. The Intel Alder Lake hybrid chip utilized 14 cores and 20 threads for the benchmark run, and it even threw out a clearly misread maximum frequency of 27.1 GHz.

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[Danilio Costa]

Looking at the distribution of the L1 cache, I have another interpretation for the actual number of nuclei: 10. In this case there would be 6 high performance and 4 efficiency, and all would have Hyper-Threading (6x2 + 4x2 = 20).

BR user.

[Anonymousgg]

Looking at the distribution of the L1 cache, I have another interpretation for the actual number of nuclei: 10. In this case there would be 6 high performance and 4 efficiency, and all would have Hyper-Threading (6x2 + 4x2 = 20).

BR user.

Alder Lake's Atom cores won't have hyperthreading, so no. This is 6 big x 2 threads, 8 small x 1 thread. The maximum will be 8+8, 24 threads.

Don't put too much stock in these engineering sample results. They will be weirder than usual since software won't handle heterogeneous x86 correctly.

[John Smith for real]

So how many cpu generations before windows schedulers understand how cores like this work?

[Anonymousgg]

So how many cpu generations before windows schedulers understand how cores like this work?

The Microsoft SQ1 and SQ2 based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx has big.LITTLE. You'd think that Microsoft could figure it out for x86.