The new 12th Generation Intel Core CPUs are faster than the Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max, but with a handicap

On By Garmin Philip

Intel is elated with the performance of its 12th Generation Intel Core. It looks like it has beaten AMD on desktop PCs, and it can do the same to Apple on laptops… except for one thing.

In recent years, Intel has had to endure humiliation from be overtaken by AMD and its powerful Ryzen processors.

During decades Intel has been the reference in PC, and surely it has not sat well with them. But they have managed to get their act together, and with the new 12th Generation Intel Core, they have regained the throne. At least in the desktop versions.

A few days ago it announced the 12th Generation Intel core for laptops, which will have to compete with the revolutionary Apple M1 Pro and Apple M1 Max used by the apple company’s laptops.

The Web Macworld has compared all these processors with different benchmarks, and Intel’s most powerful mobile processor outperforms Apple’s M1 Pro and M1 Max, but with higher power consumption.

Thus, in the benchmark Geekbench 5, in both single core and multicore tests, the Intel i9-12900HK, equipped with 14 cores, exceeds the M1 Pro and M1 Max with margins of 3 or 5%:

In Geekbench OpenCL, which measures graphics performance, Apple processor GPUs are up to 3 times faster than the integrated Intel Xe GPU.

But they lag far behind GPU RTX 3080 Ti de NVIDIA carrying the MSI GE76 Raider laptop.

In another very popular benchmark, Cinebench R23, which measures 3D modeling and multithreading performance, the Intel Core also beats Apple’s processors again.

It seems, therefore, that in GPU performance the more powerful 12th Generation Intel Core is faster than the Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max.

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But you have to keep in mind one important thing: consumption. In these benchmarks, the Intel CPU consumes between 100 and 140W, while Apple processors consume 60% less.

It is a very important difference: a MacBook Pro can play 17 hours of video, and the MSI GE76 Raider sticks to 6 hours. And it costs twice as much as the MacBook Pro, more than 4,000 euros.

These are data that each one should value, since there are users who prefer raw power, and others the greatest possible autonomy.

Reference-computerhoy.com