I've tested the new Alder Lake chips from Intel on the first gaming laptop to use them, the MSI GE76 Raider. Color me impressed.
“AMD [is] in the rearview mirror […], and never again will they be in the windshield.” That’s what new Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said recently about his new Alder Lake chips in relation to the competition.But now that I’ve tested the first device with Intel’s new Alder Lake mobile chips, I find myself agreeing with him. It feels like the return of Intel’s dominance in laptop performance, and the start of a new era.
We saw how powerful this could be with the first Alder Lake desktop chips in the line in 2021, but in laptops is where this more efficient type of processor should have an even larger effect. And based on my testing, Intel has a winner on its hands with the Core i9-12900HK. But perhaps the most impressive result was in single-core performance. Scoring as high as 1872 in Cinebench R23 is a huge deal. Being 21% faster than your competition is a good place to be. That lead even extends to PCMark 10, which tests simpler tasks like word processing, web browsing, and videoconferencing. Intel says it hits 5.0GHz in Turbo and 2.5GHz as a base frequency.
Because this is an “HK” chip, that does mean it’s overclockable, but all of this testing was done under MSI’s “Balanced” power profile and Nvidia Optimus turned on. The MSI GE76 Raider unit I reviewed also included 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a 1080p 360Hz screen. The scores above come PugetBench’s Adobe Premiere Pro benchmark. The overall score puts the Core i9-12900HK in between the M1 Pro and M1 Max, which isn’t too surprising. But the real story is in playback.
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