The PL2 of Intel Alder Lake-P may reach up to 115W

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Recently, the famous PC enthusiast Coelacanth’s Dream wrote a new article and published it on the blog, involving the decoding of Intel’s latest patch, allowing everyone to have a deeper understanding of some undisclosed information about the upcoming Alder Lake-P mobile processor. This information indicates that some Intel Alder Lake-P mobile processors can be configured with a TDP of up to 115W. It may become Intel’s most power-hungry processor in the history of notebook computers.

Alder Lake-P will be Intel’s second product to achieve a hybrid processor core design after Lakefield, Golden Cove performance core and Gracemont efficiency core will be used. The core is still Xe architecture. It will also support DDR5 memory and PCIe Gen5. It will be manufactured using a 10nm Enhanced SuperFin process.
In the article, Coelacanth’s Dream revealed the three core configurations of Alder Lake-P, including 2+8+GT2, PL1, and PL2 are 15W and 55W, respectively. PL1 and PL2 of 4+8+GT2 are 28W and 64W respectively; PL1 and PL2 of 6+8+GT2 are 45W and 115W respectively. The first number indicates the number of large cores, the second number indicates the number of small cores, and the third indicates the level of the integrated graphics unit. Alder Lake-P with 6+8+GT2 configuration has appeared in the Geekbench database before, tested with DDR5 memory with a capacity of 64GB and a frequency of 4800MHz.

These numbers do seem to be quite high, but Intel now allows OEMs to greatly adjust their TDP, and carry out targeted tuning and configuration, which is more flexible than before, rather than static TDP. Intel provides two different levels of Turbo Boost to improve efficiency with better optimization. Therefore, in the past few years, Intel’s mobile processors generally have higher TDP numbers.

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