12th Gen Intel Core outperforms AMD in performance, but uses a lot of power

Late October Intel disclosed finally, the new Alder Lake processors. Processors have long been awaited by the market and consumers, and the tests performed well demonstrate all the power that the company was striving to have in these chips.

Benchmarks continue to emerge, but the results show that despite the superiority of competitor AMD’s processors, the new 12th Gen Intel Core processors consume a lot of power.

As expected, after the launch of the new Intel Alder Lake processors, the first tests soon surfaced, such as:

Other recent tests show that the new 12th Gen Intel Core processors outperform AMD Ryzen chips in terms of performance. However, this result comes at a price when it comes to the high power consumption of Intel chips.

Most of the tests were conducted using the high-performance Intel Core i9-12900K, which was ranked as the most powerful of the Alder Lake lineup and the world's best processor for gaming. This chip has 16 cores and 24 threads. Alder Lakes is a hybrid offering where 8 cores are the performance (P-cores) - the highest-performing CPU core Intel has built - and the rest are efficient cores (E-cores) designed for scalable performance. ...

This approach aims to help the PC conserve energy, since the simplest tasks are performed by the cores that consume less, without sacrificing performance.

Tests carried out Facets found the Core i9-12900K to outperform its predecessor, the Core i9-11900K, in all tests. On Geekbench 5, the 12th Gen chip was 12% higher in single-threaded tasks and 137% higher in multi-threaded tasks.

Already in tests Ars TechnicaThe high-performance Alder Lake processor was compared to the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, where the Intel chip performed the best in multithreading on Cinebench R20 (10,323 points versus 10,085) and Geekbench 5 (18,241 versus 15,102). He lost only in the Passmark test (39,232 versus 47,835).

12th Gen Intel Core powerful ... but consuming a lot of power

However, in the midst of everything related to energy consumption, there is one "but". In this area, the benchmarks of Intel's new processors are not as exciting.

Ars Technica ran a Cinebench R20 benchmark in which the Core i9-12900K peaked at 307W versus 204W for the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X. Another test on the channel Nexus Gamers using Blender Benchmark, it shows an Intel model with 240W and an AMD chip with 120W.

It's important to note, however, that 12th Gen Intel Alder Lake processors are designed for high-performance PCs and are an option primarily for professional and dedicated gamers.