Intel’s Twelfth-gen ‘HX’ chips convey 16 cores to laptops | Engadget

Intel’s Twelfth-gen CPUs have already made a robust exhibiting in opposition to AMD’s Ryzen 6000 chips, however now Intel is taking issues to a different degree with its “HX” processors. They’re the primary pocket book 16-core pocket book processors available on the market, and so they’re additionally fully unlocked and overclockable. Intel is principally aiming to present lovers and content material creators the identical kind of energy and adaptability they anticipate from desktop chips.

Perhaps that is why the HX-series specs appear so acquainted. At the excessive finish, there’s the Core i9-12950HX with 16 cores (8 efficiency and eight environment friendly), 24 threads and a most turbo pace of 5GHz. For essentially the most half, it seems to be like Intel has scaled scaled down its 12900K desktop chip to be usable in laptops. And with a lift TDP of a toasty 157-watts (and a base TDP of 55-watts), effectivity clearly is not the principle focus. The HX chips are powerhouses meant for beefy 15 and 17-inch workstations — do not even dare ask about battery life.

Performance sensible, Intel’s charts present that the HX chips aren’t an enormous leap over its cellular H-series processors. The 12900HX provides 64 p.c quicker multi-threaded efficiency than the i9-11980HK, however that is solely barely quicker than the 12900HK (scaled figures would make these charts far more helpful, to be trustworthy). The HX processors will ship with help for DDR5 and DDR4 overclocking, in addition to a brand new Dynamic Memory Boost function. They’ll even have “efficient-core clocking” in addition to a revamped Intel Extreme Tuning program.

Intel’s Twelfth-gen HX collection processors will begin delivery later this yr in giant workstations just like the ASUS ROG Strix Scar 17 SE, MSI’s GE77 and 67 Raider, Lenovo’s Legion 7i, HP’s Omen 17 and Gigabyte’s Aorus 17X and 15X.