Alder Lake HX laptop processors introduced – up to 16 cores for best performance

High-end Alder Lake HX laptop processors by the company Intel Were introduced and provide users with up to 16 cores of 24 strings. The blue team in Intel Vision 2022 unveiled its new twelfth generation mobile series, which is actually the same desktop silicon in the mobile package, but with the necessary changes.

In this series, the number of cores, thermal power and the number of PCIe lines have increased, and we even see the activation of PCI Express Gen 5.0 in this family. In addition, up to 48 PCIe lines are available in Gen 5.0 x16 + Gen 4.0 x20 + Gen 3.0 x12, which is more than the Alder Lake H with Gen 4.0 x16 + Gen 3.0 x12.

Alder Lake HX laptop processors introduced

As mentioned, Alder Lake full desktop silicone is used in the BGA package. One of the slides confirms that the BGA package has the same dimensions as the desktop LGA (45 × 37.5 mm) and the only difference in height will be reduced from 4.4 mm to 2.0 mm.

Alder Lake HX of course supports overclocking. There is also support for DDR5 memory with XMP 3.0 profiles along with a new feature called Dynamic Memory Boost. Overclocked cores, Speed ​​Optimizer and updated Extreme Tuning Utility are also included. Intel has announced that all models in this series can be overclocked.

Main specifications of Alder Lake HX series

• Up to 16 cores (8 powerful cores and 8 low-power cores) and 24 strands at a base frequency of 55 watts
• Access PCIe Gen 5.0 x16 via processor and four PCIe Gen 4.0 x4 via chipset for more bandwidth and faster data transfer
• The first series of fully open and overclockable coefficient of mobile processors
• Supports 128 GB of DDR5 / LPDDR5 (up to 4800/5200 MHz) and DDR4 / LPDDR4 (up to 3200 and 4267 MHz) memory with ECC capability
• Designed with Intel Wi-Fi 6 / 6E (Gig +) 2 to improve connectivity and access to the new 6 GHz range

More than 10 different workstation and gaming laptops will be offered this year by major manufacturers such as Dell, HP, Lenovo and others.

Processor name	Number of cores / strings	Base frequency	Boost frequency	Memory cache	Integrated graphics configuration	thermal power	Maximum thermal power
Core i9 12980HX (vPRO)	8 + 8/24	2.3 GHz	5.0 GHz	30 MB	32 executive units 1550 MHz	55 watts	157 watts
Core i9 12900HX	8 + 8/24	2.3 GHz	5.0 GHz	30 MB	32 executive units 1550 MHz	55 watts	157 watts
Core i9 12900HK	6 + 8/20	2.5 GHz	5.0 GHz	24 MB	96 executive units 1450 MHz	45 watts	115 watts
Core i9 12900H	6 + 8/20	2.5 GHz	5.0 GHz	24 MB	96 executive units 1450 MHz	45 watts	115 watts
Core i7 12850HX (vPRO)	8 + 8/24	2.1 GHz	4.8 GHz	25 MB	32 executive units 1450 MHz	55 watts	157 watts
Core i7 12800HX	8 + 8/24	2.0 GHz	4.8 GHz	25 MB	32 executive units 1450 MHz	55 watts	157 watts
Core i7 12800H	6 + 8/20	2.4 GHz	4.8 GHz	24 MB	96 executive units 1400 MHz	45 watts	115 watts
Core i7 12700H	6 + 8/20	2.3 GHz	4.7 GHz	24 MB	96 executive units 1400 MHz	45 watts	115 watts
Core i7 12650HX	6 + 8/20	2.0 GHz	4.7 GHz	24 MB	32 executive units 1450 MHz	55 watts	157 watts
Core i7 12650H	6 + 4/16	2.3 GHz	4.7 GHz	24 MB	64 executive units 1400 MHz	45 watts	115 watts
Core i5 12600HX	4 + 8/16	2.5 GHz	4.6 GHz	18 MB	32 executive units 1050 MHz	55 watts	157 watts
Core i5 12600H	4 + 8/16	2.7 GHz	4.5 GHz	18 MB	80 executive units 1400 MHz	45 watts	95 watts
Core i5 12500H	4 + 8/16	2.5 GHz	4.5 GHz	18 MB	80 executive units 1300 MHz	45 watts	95 watts
Core i5 12450HX	4 + 4/12	2.4 GHz	4.4 GHz	12 MB	16 executive units 1300 MHz	55 watts	157 watts
Core i5 12450H	4 + 4/12	2.0 GHz	4.4 GHz	12 MB	48 executive units 1200 MHz	45 watts	95 watts
Core i7 1280P	6 + 8/20	1.8 GHz	4.8 GHz	24 MB	96 executive units 1450 MHz	28 watts	64 watts
Core i7 1270P	4 + 8/16	2.2 GHz	4.8 GHz	18 MB	96 executive units 1400 MHz	28 watts	64 watts
Core i7 1260P	4 + 8/16	2.1 GHz	4.7 GHz	18 MB	96 executive units 1400 MHz	28 watts	64 watts
Core i5 1250P	4 + 8/16	1.7 GHz	4.4 GHz	18 MB	80 executive units 1400 MHz	28 watts	64 watts
Core i5 1240P	4 + 8/16	1.7 GHz	4.4 GHz	12 MB	80 executive units 1300 MHz	28 watts	64 watts
Core i3 1220P	2 + 8/12	1.5 GHz	4.4 GHz	12 MB	64 executive units 1100 MHz	28 watts	64 watts