Intel launched the desktop version of the 12th-generation Core processor last year, which is very satisfactory in both game performance and power consumption, and has also won unanimous praise from consumers. With the holding of CES 2022, Intel has brought the 12th generation of Core processors into the mobile market, including standard voltage processors and low-voltage processors, of course, the current large-scale distribution of the standard plate market, and Intel also said that it will soon launch a low-voltage processor-based light and thin book with partner manufacturers.
Judging from the first notebook equipped with Intel's 12th generation Core mobile processor, the player's evaluation of the 12th generation Core mobile processor is still quite good. Recently, Intel also held a media communication meeting to introduce the functional features of the 12th generation Core mobile processor to everyone in more detail, and also said that with the help of the 12th generation Core mobile processor, everyone can achieve a better comprehensive experience.
In fact, with the improvement of consumers' purchasing power and their own knowledge level, relying only on stacked parameters has no longer become a necessary magic weapon to attract consumers to buy. The actual application experience is the object that consumers, especially notebook consumers, are more concerned about. After all, compared with desktop computers with ample space and extreme heat dissipation, notebooks are terminal products with a high degree of integration, and the requirements for power consumption and heat generation are more stringent. And because the heat can not be controlled, the performance of the processor is greatly reduced. Therefore, this time the communication will be more about the performance of the 12th generation Core processor in practical applications, and the test environment will also tend to be everyone's daily office and application.
The first is the application scenario of the 12th generation Core processor, Intel said that the 12th generation Core processor has been used in multiple use scenarios, including 9W thin and light, 25-45W standard pressure mobile book, and up to 125W desktop PC, in addition to the hybrid architecture of P core and E core, with the Intel hardware thread scheduler to achieve a balance between power consumption and performance, which is especially important for notebooks.
In the past year, Apple's M1 series processor seems to have become the most popular processor among consumers, one of the important reasons is that the M1 processor surpasses the traditional X86 processor in terms of energy consumption ratio, especially in the case of low power consumption, so many people have begun to abandon the traditional X86 processor and use ARM processors like Apple. However, Intel has said that in the higher TDP, in fact, the energy consumption of the 12th generation Core processor is already better than that of the Apple M1 processor, not to mention the 11th generation Core and the old rival AMD's Ryzen™ 9 5900HX processor.
In the actual game, thanks to the better single-threaded performance, compared with the previous generation of i9-11980HK processor, the actual game performance of the Corei9-12900HK processor can be up to 28%, and amD's Ryzen™ 9 5900HX, the game performance can also be improved by 28%. Of course, this refers to the 1080P resolution and RTX 3080 mobile graphics card, if the use of 1440P and 2160P, the actual game performance gap will be reduced.
Intel also introduced the P core and E core in the 12th generation Core processor how to deal with different tasks in the game, taking "Killer 3" as an example, including heavy load and light load in the game, such as the rendering thread and the game thread is a heavy load, and the physical rendering, animation and AI in the game are medium load, the background and audio are relatively light load, Intel by placing the heavy task to the P core, the background and audio to the E core, so as to achieve a reasonable distribution of tasks, Compared with the previous FPS performance improvement can reach 8%.
In addition to game users, content creators for notebook performance requirements are also strict, especially these users are using highly professional software, and software optimization has become an important guarantee to improve work efficiency, Intel said that it has worked with many engineering software developers in the industry to integrate the P core and E core in the 12th generation Core processor to ensure that professional software runs quickly. For example, in the Adobe Pr test project, the Core i9-12900HK processor was improved by 44%, and the performance of AutoCAD could be improved by 14%. For blender video rendering tests, save 30% of the time with the Core i9-12900HK processor. These test items basically simulate the operation of professional users, and the Core i9-12900HK processor with better performance naturally improves work efficiency.
In addition to being ahead of its competitors in absolute performance, Intel has also made special enhancements to the software and scalability of 12th-generation Core processors. Including the use of Intel Killer Wi-Fi 6E network card, with the help of a unique 6GHz channel, you can effectively reduce network latency, which in turn brings a low-latency game experience, of course, there is no commercial WiFi 6E band in the mainland, so this technology is still a rice cooker in the mainland. In addition, the current power consumption of GPUs is getting higher and higher, and the energy provided by notebook power supplies cannot change by leaps and bounds, so how to deal with the power contradiction between the two power consumption monsters of CPU and GPU has become an object that chip manufacturers including Intel and other chip manufacturers need to consider. Intel introduced Deep Link technology, which can adjust and distribute power consumption to the CPU and GPU according to the system load for a better experience.
The above technological progress, for ordinary consumers may hear the clouds, and the user's requirements are actually very clear, that is, to get a notebook terminal with excellent performance and battery life and heat satisfaction, Intel launched the "Athena" plan, and with the advancement of hardware, the requirements of the "Athena" plan are also advancing with the times, and have now become Intel Evo certification. Terminal products that test notebooks in different dimensions, only through the test of these dimensions, notebooks can pass Intel's Evo certification.
Intel also said that the standards and test items of Evo certification will change with the actual application scenarios, for example, the upcoming third edition of the Evo standard will increase the demand for conference applications. For example, it needs to meet the 1080P camera equipment, support for 12th-generation Core processors and WiFi 6E, but also need to meet the dynamic background noise cancellation, so as to make the meeting effect more outstanding, and the notebook needs to respond quickly anytime, anywhere.
In addition, Intel also said that as the trend of notebook thinning becomes more and more obvious, Evo certification is no longer satisfied with thin and light, including high-performance notebooks equipped with the H series can also be certified by Evo. Intel will also work with OEMs in the future to prepare for the certification of desktops based on the Athena program, and given the differences between desktops and notebooks, the two standards are obviously not the same.
For consumers, passing the Intel Evo certification also means that the comprehensive performance of this notebook has reached at least the average level of the industry, and consumers can also be certified according to the Intel Evo standard when purchasing notebooks. In addition, Intel also said that it will launch a large number of folding screen notebooks based on Evo certification this year to provide consumers with more choices. There is no doubt that the 12th generation of Core processors in addition to the performance of the better, but also focus on the improvement of the comprehensive experience, in addition to more and more manufacturers and consumers realize that as a highly integrated terminal product, notebooks need to consider more cumbersome factors. Intel also uses the Athena program and Evo standard certification to allow users to avoid many pitfalls of buying notebooks, which obviously has a relatively high guiding effect on consumers' choice of low-cost notebooks.