Intel Alder Lake (12th-gen) CPUs: Everything you need to know !
Intel was one of the most active firms at CES 2021, revealing four new chip families. Among them were 12th-generation desktop CPUs dubbed 'Alder Lake.'
More than nine months later, during Intel's Innovation event, the first six Alder Lake CPUs were unveiled. They're now ready for purchase, though a replacement to Tiger Lake in laptops will have to wait a little longer. Here's all you need to know about Intel's next generation of chips.
List of 12-gen Intel processors :
- i9-12900K
- i9-12900KF
- i7-12700K
- i7-12700KF
- i5-12600K
- i5-12600KF
ALDER LAKE SPECS
Intel's 12th generation CPUs represent a departure from the company's previous approach to chip architecture. It refers to Alder Lake as a 'hybrid' architecture, with Alder new chips comprising a combination of 'P-cores' and 'E-cores' rather than the conventional homogeneous core configuration seen in earlier generations.
Intel Performance cores ! P-Core
P-cores, or performance cores, are the closest thing to the conventional core paradigm and are geared for applications such as gaming and productivity workloads. E-cores, or efficient cores, do background activities while running at a lower clock speed and consuming less power. As specific tasks are assigned to relevant cores, this might theoretically enhance performance-per-watt while simultaneously cutting power consumption and thermals in processors built on the new design, but there's nothing to substantiate that just yet.
Intel stated during its Architecture Day earlier this year that its Alder Lake processors will have up to 16 cores, 24 threads, and 30MB of non-inclusive LL cache. Each P-core receives two threads, while each E-core receives one thread, for a total of 16 cores and 24 threads.
DRAM (DDR5/LPDDR5) Architecture & PCIE 5
The architecture will be the first to enable DDR5 RAM, as well as DDR4 RAM. PCIe 5, Wi-Fi 6E, and Thunderbolt 4 support have also been confirmed.
DDR5 can have more capacity
Because of DDR4 limitations, the largest memory modules you can buy today — as a regular consumer, at least — have a maximum capacity of 32GB. DDR5 has four times the capacity, with a top-of-the-line DDR5 gaming PC supporting a mind-boggling 512GB of RAM.
Of course, gaming PCs do not require exorbitant amounts of memory - most video games today do not require more than 16GB of RAM. However, many content creation and productivity applications, such as the Adobe suite, 3D rendering, machine learning tools, and others, benefit from having access to significantly more RAM.
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