As expected, Intel introduced Alder Lake-HX laptop processors at the VisiON event. This series should offer dies of desktop chips, in a laptop size that allows 16 cores and 24 threads. In addition to the extra cores and/or higher clock speeds compared to the H series, the base TDP has been increased from 45 to 55 watts. The maximum power limit has also been increased to a minimum of 157 watts (+36% vs. Alder Lake-H).
At the top of the list are the Core i9-12950HX and i9-12900HX, which differ from each other in terms of vPro support and overclocking. The 12950HX is suitable for the former, while its younger sibling has fewer overclocking restrictions. Both combine 8 p-cores and 8 e-cores (24 threads) with 30MB of L3 cache. P-cores are clocked at 2.3 GHz and boosted up to 5 GHz.
The i7-12850HX and 12800HX offer as many cores as the i9s, albeit with less cache and slower clock speeds. Core count drops for the first time with i7-12650HX, this sku offers 4 extra e-cores from i7-12650H. Finally, in addition to the increased TDP, the i5-12600HX and 12450HX look nearly identical to their H counterparts.
Intel is mainly focusing on productivity with these chips, as only six gaming benchmarks are mentioned, which are not compared to other processors. According to Team Blue’s figures, the i9-12900HX should outperform the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX in almost all areas in professional workloads, including Autodesk and SPECworkstation 3.1.
No firm release date has been given for the first Alder Lake HX-based laptops, though the company has stated that more than ten workstation and gaming models are expected this year from Asus, Dell, Lenovo and MSI, among others.
Source: Intel
Source: Hardware Info
