Intel Alder Lake-M appears for the first time
Intel will release the 12th generation Core series mobile processors early next year and will provide Alder Lake-P and Alder Lake-M chips. Alder Lake-P will replace Tiger Lake-H45, H35, and UP3 for mainstream and high-performance laptops, and Alder Lake-M will replace Tiger Lake-UP4 for tablets, handheld devices, and ultra-thin laptops.
Recently, Alder Lake-M appeared for the first time in the SiSoftware benchmark test. The system shows that the basic frequency is 0.8 GHz, the turbo frequency is 4.7 GHz, the L2 cache is 1.25MB x4, and the L3 cache is 12MB. It is tested on Intel’s verification platform with LPDDR5 memory.
Alder Lake-M focuses on power efficiency rather than performance, as the smallest chip in Alder Lake, it has 2 performance cores based on the Golden Cove architecture (Performance Core) and 8 energy efficiency cores based on the Gracemont architecture (Efficient Core). The GPU is configured with up to 96 EUs, supports Thunderbolt 4, WiFi 6E, and PCIe 4.0, and the memory can use LPDDR4X or LPDDR5. In many people’s eyes, Intel’s big.LITTLE hybrid architecture is more suitable for this type of chip.
In addition, a mobile processor named “Core i7-1260P” appeared on the Geekbench page, which belongs to Alder Lake-P and will replace Tiger Lake UP3. The system shows that 4 performance cores and 8 energy efficiency cores are configured, and the basic frequency is 2.5 GHz, but its parameters are still not fully recognized. The chip supports Thunderbolt 4, PCIe 5.0, WiFi 6E, LPDDR5, and DDR5, and the GPU also has 96 EUs.
Core i7-1260P has a single-threaded score of 1442 points and a multi-threaded score of 4190 points, both lower than the Core i7-1195G7.
