Intel showcased the 12th Gen or Alder Lake line of Intel Core mobile & desktop processors in India at the 12th Gen Intel Core Experience event. The processors are available for a range of platforms, from the S-Series or the pure desktop variants to the H-Series, HX-Series, U-Series and P-Series for notebooks and other mobile devices.
The 12th generation is based on the Intel 7 process and features a new architecture design that allows systems to take advantage of two types of specialized cores, performance cores and efficiency cores. This allows 12th Gen Intel processors to deliver best-in-class performance and fast responsiveness.
We are seeing a whole new generation of legacy technologies. We see support for DDR5, up to 4800MHz RAM. Chipsets for the 12th generation processors are also backward compatible with DDR4 RAM. We get too Thunderbolt™ 4 connectivity and Intel® Wi-Fi 6E (Gig+).
The biggest breakthrough Intel has made with the 12th Gen processors is the all-new performance hybrid architecture, which Intel says represents the most significant change in the x86 architecture in more than a decade.
Basically, this is a combination of performance cores and efficiency cores to deliver ultimate performance. The Performance Cores, or P-Cores, are the most powerful CPU cores Intel has ever built for maximum burst and single-threaded performance. The Efficient-Cores or E-Cores are designed for scalable performance per watt, for multithreading and multitasking performance. All this is possible thanks to Intel’s new process called Intel Thread Director.
Intel Thread Director monitors any given set of instructions, analyzes them, and then helps the OS scheduler allocate the various instructions to a dynamic set of P-Cores and E-Cores to execute the instructions in a way that keeps the machine fast and responsive very responsive. This enables the best possible use of performance and efficiency.
What this means in real-world performance is that should you suddenly need to start streaming on one platform while playing a processor-heavy game, switching the streaming application would have no discernible impact on your gameplay, even under heavy load .
Intel also introduced the new cache architecture used for the 12th generation Intel Core processors. Intel uses the new Common Intel Smart Cache architecture shared between the P-Cores, E-Cores and GPUs. In addition, they have increased the cache sizes of Smart Cache (L3) and L2, which promotes large storage capacity and reduces latency. This in turn makes for faster game load times and much smoother frame rates during gameplay.
The 12th generation HX series is aimed at mobile devices such as laptops and notebooks and has up to 16 cores and supports overclocking.
The H series is also aimed at laptops and notebooks and offers up to 14 cores. The H-series processors will be paired with discrete graphics and will primarily be seen in gaming laptops.
The U series offers up to 10 cores and is mainly intended for ultra-thin and light laptops. The P-Series is for the performance of thinner and lighter laptops and notebooks in the lower range.
Until now, there are limited laptops and notebooks with Intel’s 12th generation processors, but soon we can expect that more OEMs will bring devices with 12th generation Intel chips to the Indian market.
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