Intel has to change, for some time now the Santa Monica company has been lost and has allowed all its competition to overtake it. Now with Alder Lake, they want to return to the path of innovation and would arrive with 14 cores at the high end of notebooks.
Intel Alder Lake would have up to 14 cores in laptops
As the folks at Videocardz have pointed out, a chip that was explicitly recognized as part of the “Alder Lake” series recently appeared on Geekbench. It’s apparently the preliminary top model in the series, running at least 0.8 but max at an impressive 4.7 gigahertz. On average, the chip ran at 4.27 GHz in the geek bench test.
More important than clock rates, however, is the fact that Intel apparently wants to combine a very high number of cores. According to the database, the chip supports 20 threads and has 14 physical processing cores. Behind this, of course, is a concept called “BIG.little” inherited from the world of ARM chips. This is the combination of extremely powerful and low-end high-end cores, Intel’s x86-SoCs are now also entering this terrain.
The new Alder Lake P chip, apparently still unnamed, has six high-end cores and eight low-power cores. Only “strong” cores have the support for so-called hyper-threading due to their architecture, so the total number of cores reported by Geekbench is ultimately achieved.
Ideal for gaming and workstations
Using such a large number of computing cores in a laptop seems, of course, incredible at first glance. However, Alder Lake-P is expected to be used primarily in higher-performance PCs and is therefore likely to find its place primarily in gaming laptops and mobile workstations. Hexacore SoCs are no longer strangers to this area. What is new would be the low-end cheap cores.
With 96 compute units running at a maximum of 1.15 gigahertz and a good graphics memory of six gigabytes of memory, an Intel Xe GPU would also be found integrated into the chip now on Geekbench. Based on current knowledge, various other combinations are also being considered for the Alder Lake-P series rigs located below the top model. The same applies to the desktop variants that belong to the Alder Lake-S series.