First Intel Alder Lake-P with 14 cores and 20 threads seen in action, 96-EU Xe GT2 throws up no surprises in Geekbench 5 OpenCL test

[Redaktion]

A 14C/20T Intel 12th gen Alder Lake-P processor has been spotted on Geekbench showing a boost up to 4.7 GHz. This particular entry pertains to the OpenCL benchmark of the 96-EU Xe GT2 iGPU, and the score is in line with expectations, though there definitely seems to be further scope for improvement.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/First-Intel-Alder-Lake-P-with-14-cores-and-20-threads-seen-in-action-96-EU-Xe-GT2-throws-up-no-surprises-in-Geekbench-5-OpenCL-test.517852.0.html

[robin7]

Really looking forward to Intel Alder Lake

[Spunjji]

I'm a little confused as to why they'd put on so many more smaller cores than large, unless this is a harvested part. It's definitely going to be interesting to see the kind of price/performance propositions these offer on release, and how games handle the unbalanced cores under the new scheduler. Running all background OS tasks on the weaker cores while game code runs on the stronger ones could produce a pretty decent end-result, especially if the weaker cores aren't all that slow.