Intel’s Alder Lake bombing spree continues with the release of P-series and U-series CPUs from the 12th generation. They combine performance and efficiency cores managed by Intel’s Thread Director technology, just like their more powerful siblings.
Intel Xe integrated graphics, PCIe 4.0 and Thunderbolt 4 support, and other features round out the list.
With a bang, Intel’s 12th generation Alder Lake CPUs for mid-range and high-end laptops arrived. Team Blue’s latest H-series CPUs, according to our own Tim Schiesser, are a significant improvement over previous generations.
In a variety of tasks, the Core i7-12700H outperformed AMD’s excellent Ryzen 7 5800H processor.
Intel has released the second wave of Alder Lake mobile processors, which are designed for thin and light laptops.
Alder Lake P-series and U-series CPUs, like the rest of the 12th generation lineup, are hybrid designs built on an Intel 7 process node that combines performance cores (P-cores) and efficiency cores (E-cores) in a manner similar to Arm’s big.
This configuration has more cores than previous generation (Tiger Lake) CPUs, allowing for significant performance gains and longer battery life in scenarios where they are required.
When compared to Tiger Lake and AMD’s Ryzen 5800U CPUs, as well as Apple’s M1 and M1 Pro chipsets—but not the M1 Max—Intel claims up to 70% better multi-threaded performance.
The low-power U-series is divided into two sub-families, each rated at 15 watts and 9 watts. They have only two performance cores (or one in the case of Pentium and Celeron versions) and four to eight efficiency cores.
The Alder Lake P-series processors are rated at 28 watts and can be configured for a maximum turbo power of 64 watts by OEMs. These are essentially slower-clocked Alder Lake-H CPUs with eight efficiency cores and two to six performance cores.
In related news, Acer introduced the Swift 5 and Swift 3 ultraportable laptops, which feature a 12th generation Alder Lake-P CPU.
These devices have 16:10 displays, up to 16 GB of LPDDR5 RAM, up to 2 TB of PCIe 4.0 storage, and, most importantly, USB-A and HDMI 2.1 ports. The Acer Swift 3 starts at $849.99 and the Swift 5 starts at $1,499 USD.
They will be available in Europe first, beginning next month, and will gradually expand to other regions until June.
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