New details regarding Intel's upcoming Alder Lake HX laptop chips have surfaced, and it looks like these CPUs are going to be beasts.
According to ScreenRant, the leak indicates that the new Intel Alder Lake laptop CPUs will be revealed during Intel's Vision event this May 10th. There are as much as 7 new chips to be revealed there, but all of them will be based on the same silicon that the 12th gen desktop CPUs used.
Aside from that, they're also expected to be the first ever laptop CPUs with 16 cores and official support for DDR5 memory and PCIe Gen 5. As per the report, these chips are said to be intended for enthusiasts and will be overclockable - something that isn't seen too often in the laptop space.
The original report comes from VideoCardz, who also shared some more intimate details about the new Alder Lake HX CPUs. In their report, they shared what looks to be an official Intel slide which details that these are the HX chips scheduled to release later this year. As you would notice, there are no Alder Lake i3s in this list:
Core i9-12950HX
Core i9-12900HX
Core i7-12850HX
Core i7-12800HX
Core i7-12650HX
Core i5-12600HX
Core i5-12450HX
The top four CPUs in the list (12950HX, 12900HX, 12850HX, and 12800HX) will reportedly feature 16 cores and 24 threads with 8 Performance cores and 8 Efficiency cores (the Performance cores are hyperthreaded). As previously mentioned, these chips are the first laptop CPUs to feature that many cores, since that high core count used to only be reserved for desktops.
As for the next three (12650HX, 12600HX, and 12450HX), you're not going to lose much as they will still have 14, 12, and 8 cores respectively. These chips are plenty for gaming and productivity workloads.
More Power, More Heat
In truth, it's not even the sky-high core count, PCIe Gen 5 and DDR5 memory support that's interesting about these Intel Alder Lake HX CPUs: its the fact that they're also going to consume relatively sky-high amounts of power. And with more power comes heat.
There's a reason why laptop CPUs have always been quite weaker compared to their desktop counterparts. It's for cooling purposes. Laptops are designed to be portable, which means they don't have a lot of real estate for big cooling solutions. That's why they always feel hot to the touch even if you're only using them for light workloads.
With the introduction of these powerful Alder Lake HX CPUs, it will be interesting to see how Intel managed to solve the cooling problem - considering how these chips are rumored to be overclockable as well. That's just taking it to the extreme at this point.
For now, it remains to be seen whether these leaked details would turn out to be accurate. All eyes are set for Intel's event on May 10th, to see what all the fuss is about.
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Written by RJ Pierce
