Laptops equipped with Intel’s Alder Lake-P Mobility chipset will be available soon. Although the CPU has been officially released, there is not much detailed benchmark running score exposure, especially the 28W lineup. However, recently, two CPUs, Intel Alder Lake Core i7-1280P and Core i5-1240P, have appeared in the GeekBench benchmark library, allowing us to understand the approximate performance of these two CPUs.
The difference between Alder Lake-P and Alder Lake-H CPUs is that the base TDP of the former is 28W and the power in the turbo state is 64W, while the basic TDP of the H series is 45W, and the power in the turbo state can reach up to 115W. As such, the Alder Lake-P series has lower clock speeds, but most CPUs retain the same core configuration, up to 14 cores and 20 threads.
The two CPUs that appear in the GeekBench benchmark are the Intel Core i7-1280P and the Core i5-1240P. The Core i7-1240P has 12 cores (6+8), 20 threads, 24MB of L3 cache, a base frequency of 1.8GHz, and a turbo frequency of 4.8GHz. Core i5-1240P has 12 cores (4+8), 16 threads, 12MB of L3 cache, 1.7GHz base frequency and 4.4GHz turbo frequency. As mentioned, the two CPUs have a base TDP of 28W and a maximum turbo power rating of 64W.
The two CPUs exposed this time are from the same notebook computer – Lenovo notebook model “4810RD0100”, but with different CPU configurations. The configuration of the Alder Lake Core i7-1280P comes with 32GB of DDR4-2600 memory, while the Core i5-1240P comes with 16GB of system memory. In terms of performance, the Core i7-1280P has a single-core score of 1784 and a multi-core score of 9790, while the Core i5-1240P has a single-core score of 1648 and a multi-core score of 8550.
The Intel Core i7-1280P Alder Lake CPU is finally on par with AMD’s Ryzen 9 6900HX and Intel Core i9-11980HK, which feature higher power consumption, while the former’s maximum power rating is also around 54-60W (Rembrandt HX level). The Alder Lake chips were much faster in the single-core test. But that’s not all, this mobile CPU also matches the desktop-class Core i9-11900K and Ryzen 7 5800X at 95W, which is pretty remarkable.
