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These are the first Intel Alder Lake CPUs without efficient cores
Alder Lake is Intel’s latest gaming CPU series, released in early November this year. Since their release, Intel Core i9 12900K and i5 12600k have received excellent reviews, and most of the annoying DRM issues have also been fixed. This is largely due to the new hybrid architecture of these CPUs, which use higher-performance cores and energy-saving cores in series.
according to Graphics cardFor the unreleased Alder Lake non-K 65w series CPUs, we do not necessarily expect the same. According to reports, the Intel i3 12100F and i5 12400F in the 12th-generation sub-series will be the first two products that use the Alder Lake name without these high-efficiency cores. In contrast, these cores have only 4 and 6 power cores, and each core has 8 and 12 threads. We will wait to test these chips before making a judgment, but this is consistent with high-end CPUs about 4 years ago.
The i7 12700F, also released in this sub-series, separates the performance and efficiency cores, 8 power and 4 efficiency, so that it has 20 thread processing capabilities. This makes it not far from i7 12700k, only lower frequency and thermal design power. Its rated power is still 65W, which makes it a better low-power option than the k variant without sacrificing too much power.
Intel’s Alder Lake CPU sub-series will not be released until after the company’s CES meeting in January. Until then, one can only guess whether these chips will have any benefit. The first version of Alder Lake has been doing well, but removing efficiency cores from some of these chips makes them look very different.