Following the launch of the H-Series processors for performance laptops, a donor of the 12th-generation Intel processors is also coming to the slim and powerful laptops. The company has announced two Alder Lake series, the U series and the P series – one for computers looking for work time at the expense of performance, and one for users who want more performance from their slim and lightweight laptop.
In fact, the 12th generation Core P series from Intel’s Core processors is very reminiscent of the 11th generation Core U series in one aspect: the 28-watt power shell. The current U series goes back to the sources and it comes by default with a TDP of 9/15 watts in a clear division between these two configurations.
The significant difference between the two series, beyond the TDP, is the number of performance cores in each of the processors. All of the new Core U processors that have been announced, no matter if it is a 9 or 15 watt power supply, contain 2 performance cores alongside a certain amount of efficient cores, and a total of 12 working capillaries.
In the P series, on the other hand, Intel offers a larger amount of performance cores, all of which offer 8 efficient cores. In fact only the lowest processor on this list, the Core i3-1220P, has only two performance cores. Both Core i5 processors and two Core i7 processors have four performance cores, and there is also one leading processor on the list, Core i7-1280P, has 6 performance cores, and a total of 14 cores with 20 working capillaries. This processor also comes with the most L3-level cache memory, with a capacity of 24 megabytes, with a basic speed of 1.3 GHz for a core performance and 1.8 GHz for an efficiency core, and a maximum turbo speed for a single core of 4.8 GHz.
Most U-series processors, no matter what their TDP, come with 8 efficient cores and 2 performance cores, with the main differences being the speed – and in fact the number of display cores, and in a moment they will be treated separately. Only the Core i3-1215U and Core i3-1210U come with only 4 performance cores, and as mentioned this one has a 15 watt TDP and the other has a 9 watt TDP.
And there is one more significant difference between the processors, beyond their TDP and that is the number of graphics cores integrated in each type of processor. All Core i7 processors in the current announcement come with 96 Iris X-based performance coreseWhile the Core i5 processors have 80 performance cores while the Core i3 processors only have 64 performance cores.
However, there are differences in the speeds of the graphics chips, and the fastest cores are not surprising in the Core i7-1280P with a maximum speed of 1.45 GHz. The fastest processor in terms of main cores is the Core i7-1270P, which is equipped with 4 performance cores alongside 8 efficient cores, one at 1.6 GHz and one at 2.2 GHz at the basic level without turbo.
In addition, the company presented the development of its Intel Evo standard and showed for the first time its plans to create a sub-standard for computers with folding screens up to 16 inches in size with 4K resolution.
The new processors are expected to hit the market soon.