The H-series, P-series, and U-series of Intel's 12th Gen processors were released earlier this year. The majority of mainstream products entered the market with the exception of powerful mobile workstations. You know: the thick, bulky beasts you can barely carry around that come with power bricks as large as that netbook you used to own.
At its Intel Vision event, Intel revealed the new 12th Gen Alder Lake-HX CPUs, desktop-caliber chips for enthusiast gaming laptops and workstations. The same size as Intel's desktop one, the Core i7, Core i9 and Core i5 chips come in a BGA package. The H-series processors have the ability to be unlocked, but these chips have more cores, higher power levels, and upgraded lanes.
The table shows the full stack of laptops.
The Core i9-12950HX is the queen of this hive, and the first mobile chip with 16 cores, split between eight performance and eight efficiency core. It has 24 threads and reaches a max boost of 5.0 GHz with a 1.7 GHz base Frequency on the efficiency cores. The Core i9-12900HX doesn't support vPro for remote management, which is a feature used in commercial settings.
The first laptop platform to support the new Gen 5 version of the software is theAlder Lake-HX. Storage goes up to 16 terabytes via four 4 terabytes of solid state drives.
The chips have XMP 3.0 and error-correcting code, two controllers, and a new feature called Dynamic.
These chips will have significant performance gains. The Core i9-12900HX was the leader in the CrossMark benchmark for creative apps with a 33% lead.
The Core i9-12900HX beat the Core i9-12900HK by 12% for professional-grade tasks. It had a large lead in the benchmark of the Autodesk Inventor. Take the performance numbers with a grain of salt until we can run our own tests.
That performance doesn't come cheap. Each chip has a base power of 55W and a boost of 157W. The HX processors are gas-guzzling V8 muscle cars if Intel's U-series chips are EV and P-series are hybrid. Intel's H-series chips start at 45W and go up to 115W, which is a 42 watt increase.
The laptops running HX will need serious thermals, which will result in a thicker chassis. The systems aren't meant to be the most travel-friendly.
There are 10 laptops that will use the new HX processor that will be rolling down the factory line. The ROG Strix Scar 17 SE is a powerful gaming laptop and the ExpertBook B6 is a portable system. Dell has two Precision models in the queue, while Lenovo has HX in its Legion 7i.
The additional power will be harnessed by twoMSI gaming laptops, the GT77 Titan and GE77/67 Raider, along with the Gigabyte Aorus 17X/15X, and HP Omen 17. The laptops should be arriving soon for those who need a portable solution to replace their desktop.
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