Intro

Intel's special sauce

A note about Windows 11 and test setup

Gaming results

Productivity results

Did Intel cheat?

Power consumption

Thermal performance - Intel's still selling space heaters

Value and conclusion - 12600K > 12900K

Intel Alder Lake

P Cores vs E Cores

Intel Thread Director is IMPORTANT

DDR4 vs DDR5 Memory

PCIe Gen5 Support Explained

New Socket means New COOLERS

Alder Lake, To be Continued

What is a Press Kit

Sponsor Spot

Boxes vs Retail Product

From The Marketing Perspective

Intel Top Trumps

Intel Alder Lake Press Kit

i9-12900K and i5-12600K CPUs

SK Hynix 2x32GB DDR5-4800B

DDR5 Socket Info

MSI Z690 Carbon Wi-Fi

Corsair H150i Elite Capellix

MSI Alder Lake Press Kit

Core i9-12900K from MSI

Kingston 2x16GB DDR5-5200

MSI Z690 Unify Box

MSI Coreliquid S360 SLC

Media Kits are Sometimes Silly

MSI Z690 Unify Board

Why a PS/2 Port?

What does this all mean?

Squirrel Tax

Efficient Cores

Hybrid Performance

Intel Thread Director

Thread Director Spinning State

Thread Director Phases

Thread Director & Power Throttling API

Alder Lake Design Points

Performance Hybrid Architecture

PCIe Gen 5 Support

Dynamic Power Scaling

Intro

Some salty performance numbers

Is it really all that different? (yes)

Threads need Direction

Watt's a TDP? Enter PBP and MTP

Built on some number of nanometers Intel now calls 7

PCI Express gen 4 is already obsolete, except it's not

DDR5 XMP DMBT (but also DDR4)

Pricing and availability

Intro

Introducing Performance Hybrid Architecture

Golden Cove Architecture

Smarter Predictive and Reactive Features

Efficient Cores

Alder Lake E-Cores

Alder Lake E-Core Performance

Intel Thread Director

Spinning State

Conclusion

Intro

12th Gen Overview

Checking Intel's claims

Gaming performance

Application performance

IPC & Power Efficiency

E-Core Gaming Leaks

Bringing true desktop power to laptops

Support dual thunderbolt 4 controllers with 40 gigabits of bi-directional bandwidth

Hit a max turbo power of 157 watts

Dial the memory back to its baseline frequency for power savings

Overclocking for all the cores

Providing enthusiast level performance and overclocking headroom

Skeptical about Alder Lake

Current Intel: Lakefield

Current Intel: Tiger Lake

Current Intel: Rocket Lake

Intel Core 12th Gen at CES

CRBs: Mobile or Desktop?

LGA1700 is 500 more pins. Why?

Supporting two versions of DDR

Combo Skylake board with DDR3 and DDR4

Motherboard DDR4 vs DDR5 issues

Intro to DDR5

DDR5 state of play

Core 13th Gen on DDR4? Psh

Wait for DDR5?

Intel Hybrid Technology Designs

The OS issue and scheduler hacks

Lakefield Teething Issues

Windows Scheduler vs Apple

Instruction Sets on Hybrid

Review 8+8 vs 8+0

Benefits for Mobile Platforms

Alder Lake vs AMD

IPC Increases - HOW?!?!

Marketing

CAT TAX

Performance-Hybrid Architecture

Platform Features

Display Options

Asus ROG Flow Z13

Armor Caps

Alienware x14

Lenovo Legion 5i Pro

CoolerBoost 5

Conclusion

Intro

Whokeys sponsored segment

Windows 11 Issues

Software Issues

Adobe Updates

RAM DDR4 vs DDR5 dilemma

DDR5 Issues

End

Key Features

Efficient Cores

Socket & Coolers

Hybrid Architecture

Cinebench R20 Results

Blender 3D Rendering

CSGO Benchmark

DDR4 vs DDR5 Power Consumption

Conclusion

Outro

Intel 12th Gen Laptops EXPLAINED

3 NEW FAMILIES (H, P & U SERIES)

Alder Lake Mobile Architecture Explained

12th gen H-series RUNDOWN

Gaming Performance vs 11th gen

Gaming Performance vs AMD 5000H

Performance vs APPLE Silicon

12th gen P-series RUNDOWN

12th gen U-series RUNDOWN

Wrap-Up

Intro

12th Gen Intel

Pentium G6951

ECC Today

Thanks Intel

Business Time

AMD

Conclusion

Outro