Intel announces H series for 'Alder Lake' mobiles

On January 4, US time, Intel announced the details of the "H series", a mobile product of the 12th generation "Core" processor "Alder Lake", at the CES 2022 keynote, and the top The processor claims to outperform Apple's M1 Max.

According to the graph released by the company (although the performance ratio is displayed as a percentage and the details are difficult to understand because there is no scale line), in the area where the power consumption is around 35W, the "Core i9-12900HK ” outperforms the M1 Max. However, the M1 Max can operate with lower power consumption (at least around 20W), while the i9-12900HK needs at least around 30W.

Intel also mentions "AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX", which outperforms M1 Max in the area of ​​​​25W or so, but even if power consumption is increased, the performance does not improve so much, and when power consumption increases, It is said that the performance will overtake both M1 Max and Intel's 11th generation Core i9 processor.

Intel has announced two types of Core i9 processors and three types of i7 and i5 as the Alder Lake H series. Both have a basic power consumption of 45W.

Both i9-12900HK and i9-12900H have 14 cores (6 high-performance cores + 8 high-efficiency cores), 20 executable threads, 24MB L3 cache, maximum frequency of 5GHz, maximum consumption The power is 115W, and the only difference is the type of "vPro" installed. The i9-12900H is equipped with "vPro Enterprise" that inherits all the functions of the conventional "vPro" and also supports "Chrome OS". On the other hand, i9-12900HK will be equipped with "vPro Essentials" which is a subset of vPro for small and medium enterprises. Also, the i9-12900HK supports unlocking (overclocking).

The i7-12800H and i7-12700H have the same specs as the i9 except that the peak frequency is lower at 4.8GHz and 4.7GHz respectively, the 12700H has vPro Essentials and the 12800H has vPro Enterprise. be. The i7-12650H does not have vPro, has 10 cores (6 high-performance cores + 4 high-efficiency cores), 16 threads, and 24MB of L3 cache.

For the Core i5, both have a maximum power consumption of 95W, i5-12600H and i5-12500H have 12 cores (4 high-performance cores + 8 high-efficiency cores), and the number of threads that can be executed is 16, L3 The cache is 18MB and the maximum frequency is 4.5GHz. The i5-12600H comes with vPro Enterprise and the i5-12500H with vPro Essentials.

The i5-12450H also has 8 cores (4 high-performance cores + 4 high-efficiency cores), 12 threads, 12 MB L3 cache, a maximum frequency of 4.4 GHz, and no vPro.

The H series processors support DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200, LPDDR5-5200, and LPDDR4x-4267 memory, and laptops equipped with these processors will be released in February. .

In addition to the H series, Intel will release the 12th generation P series with a basic power consumption of 28 W and the U series with a basic power consumption of 9 to 15 W for thin notebook PCs during this quarter. clarified. The P series includes the Core i7-1280P, which is the top processor with 14 cores (6 high-performance cores + 8 high-efficiency cores), and the lower 10 cores (2 high-performance cores + 8 high-efficiency cores). A wide range of 6 types of products are available up to the i3-1220P.

Intel also announced 22 new Alder Lake processors for the desktop today.

Intel also says that "Project Athena" is coming to the vPro desktop.

This article is an article from overseas Red Ventures edited by Asahi Interactive for Japan.