First public Intel Alder Lake-P Core i9-12900HK leak surprises with 50% dip in multi-core scores compared to Apple M1 Max, 96-EU Xe iGPU on the anvil

[Redaktion]

The first public appearance of the upcoming Intel Alder Lake-P 14-core 20-thread Core i9-12900HK powering a Lenovo Legion laptop has surfaced on Geekbench. This leak shows significantly lower single and multi-core performance than the closed leak we've seen recently. The benchmark also reveals that the Core i9-12900HK sports a 96-EU Xe Graphics iGPU.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/First-public-Intel-Alder-Lake-P-Core-i9-12900HK-leak-surprises-with-50-dip-in-multi-core-scores-compared-to-Apple-M1-Max-96-EU-Xe-iGPU-on-the-anvil.577850.0.html

[flatwhite]

That could be the test result of 8 E-cores, I'd love to have 8P + 4E instead of 6P + 8E in the flagship SKU. Tiger Lake Willow Cove cores have been proven quite good for gaming, having extra E cores only good for Ultrabook where battery life is a big concern, not gaming laptops with HK processors.
This's not to mention compatibility problem in quite a few games with E-cores that we've seen recently.

[Digitalguy]

Probably this is a test while not plugged to power

[Bau]

You have also to consider that the laptop has only 8GB of RAM running in Single Channel this could strogly affects the performance.
By the way, 6P+8E is not a bad idea overall, 6P core in a laptop is enough to reach the maximung gaming performance. It could be better but after all they have made a "all-good" processor, Good Single-Core performance, Good Multi-Core Count (and probably also performance), Good iGPU, and probably good power consumption.
So, if in one hand it could be better have something like 8P+8E and 32EU for the GPU for the Gaming scenario, in the other hand you can still have an ultrabook like laptop (14-15") with strong CPU performance and good GPU performance.
There are not only gamer in the world.

[dsadasdsa]

e cores are the best, in laptops and desktop. they consume very little space and give you a lot of punch, more than what an equivalent 1 P cores with its HT would give you. Sure, for some specific cases you do need the P cores and you have 6 of them which I would say is plenty, but for the vast majority of tasks, the e cores are a great idea, plus they raise the overall efficiency of the platform.

[ajjf]

Did Intel release a new security patch?

[PolCPP]

Probably unplugged.

On the other side, why they have so many e-cores and threads? I'm the only one who thinks we're getting into a core/thread-war, like the old mhz war?

I feel 16 cores  32 threads is more than enough for a non-workstation machine.

Gaming wise, regarding the cpu if one can beat/match the 8 zen2 cores consoles have it should be plenty power for the time being.

[DR]

definitely thermal throttle.  250W on desktop is now problem but in a 1" or less laptop impossible to cool