Tests posted by a user of weibo indicate that the Core i7 12700H, the mid-range processor that should equip most gaming notebooks in 2022, is up to 35% more powerful than the Ryzen 7 5800H, AMD’s current advanced solution for the segment. The component shows power to compete with desktop models, even if a new level of consumption is the price to pay for performance.
Core i7 12700H can be up to 35% better than Ryzen 7 5800H
The data arrives through a user of the Chinese platform weibo, with access to Intel’s promotional materials, as well as a notebook equipped with the new Core i7. The first part of the content compares the component with its direct rival at the moment, the Ryzen 7 5800H, as well as with Intel’s 11th-gen flagship, the Core i9 11980HK, showing very favorable results for the 12th-gen Alder Lake CPU. .
An interesting point is that the images still show the performance of the Core i5 12500H, and despite being one of the most basic models of the Alder Lake family, it also brings very competitive results. Tests were performed on different generations of Cinebench, including R20 and R23, along with CPU-Z, both with single-core and multi-core numbers.
Want to stay on top of the best tech news of the day? Access and subscribe to our new youtube channel, Kenyannews News. Every day a summary of the main news from the tech world for you!
The slide suggests that, on average, the i7 12700H is 24% more powerful than the Ryzen 7 5800H when using a single core, and 35% taking advantage of all cores. The numbers are respectable even when compared to the i9 11980HK, showing an 8% advantage in single-core and 26% in multi-core for the latest CPU.
Users looking for budget laptops equipped with the i5 12500H should also be well served — the processor is 16% faster in single-core and 10% more powerful in multi-core than AMD’s competitor, and delivers nearly equivalent performance. to the previous generation Core i9, an impressive feat considering that the older chip had been powering the most expensive laptops on the market for less than a year.
The data is reinforced by the second part of the material, which shows one of the best results obtained by the Core i7 12700H in the Cinebench R20, reaching numbers higher than those indicated by the supposed slide from Intel: 695 points in single-core and an impressive 7,435 points in multi-core. core.
By way of comparison, the numbers surpass those of the Core i5 12600K, with 10 cores and 16 threads, which scores 6,702 points in multi-core, and leave the Ryzen 7 5800X, with 8 cores and 16 threads, far behind, all performance, which now reaches a modest 5,724 points.
It is worth noting that, in addition to a new redesigned microarchitecture, the new 12th generation Intel Cores stand out for adopting a hybrid design, mixing high-performance cores, the P-Cores, with low-power cores, the E-Cores. The configuration had already proved to be powerful on desktops, and should maintain its qualities on notebooks.
More robust, the Core i7 12700H has 14 cores and 20 threads, with 6 P-Cores with Hyper-Threading running at 4.7 GHz and 8 E-Cores working at 3.5 GHz, accompanied by 24 MB of cache. The modest Core i5 12500H employs 12 cores and 16 threads, with 4 P-Cores equipped with Hyper-Threading at 4.5 GHz and 8 E-Cores running at 3.3 GHz, supported by 18 MB of cache.
Performance can come at the cost of consumption
Parallel to this, a Chinese website content creator bile released its tests with the MSI Vector GP66, one of the notebooks of the new wave that will debut the Alder Lake-H processors. In addition to the overall performance of the machine, the analysis evaluates the consumption scale of the new Core i7, showing that the platform can reach higher performance levels, but consuming much more energy.
The component has a minimum consumption of 35 W and a standard of 45 W, but it can use Intel’s boost technologies to reach more than 115 W of consumption, with a peak of 120 W, very high values and unprecedented in an intermediate platform for laptops. As you would expect, the performance gains with more power are close to 60%.
At least in the tests carried out, carried out on the Cinebench R20 and CPU-Z, the processor seems to reach the sweet spot at 105 W, when the performance gains become negligible. That said, the notebook in question needs to have a robust cooling system to keep temperatures under control.
Despite the promising results, it is essential to remember that these are just a few tests, and they represent just some of the qualities of the Alder Lake chips and their hybrid architecture. In practice, the results should be less stark, at least in games. We need to wait for more complete tests, which should be published in the coming days, so we know how the potency will translate into real use.
