Is Intel Alder Lake truly the M1 Max KILLER? x86 vs ARM!

Intels' Alder Lake is finally ready for mainstream, with leaked benchmark performance so high that it's making due of Apple's new M1 Max MacBook Pros as well as other tasks.

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In this video, I discuss various parts about the leaked mobile benchmarks for the new Intel i9-12980HK and the i7-12700H.

I also compare them to the performance of the 10-core M1 Pro and M1 Max MacBook Pro.
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[MaxTechOfficial]

Do you agree with my thoughts on Alder Lake? Comment your thoughts below!
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[cyanogen]

I'd say we are getting to the point of what happened when AMD caught up with Intel, but now with Apple's own chips. Intel is finally getting a serious run for their money, and it is going to be glorious what consumers get out of all this newfound competition.

[arthurduncan]

Not acquiring SiFive doesn't mean no more RISC-V for Intel. RISC-V is an open source architecture and Intel can make RISC-V chips if it wants to, regardless if they bought SiFive or not. What Intel wants from SiFive is their accelerated development, since they would now have access to the advancements that SiFive has made over the years, plus any patented optimizations that SiFive has if any, compared to building the SoC from scratch, or having to work around patent infringements, which requires a lot of engineering work. But that doesn't mean that Intel is shut-off from RISC-V, it's just that they have to work extra now to get the chip they want.

[EVPaddy]

You really think Intel only found out how fast these chips are when running benchmarks? Do you think chip design is some sort of alchemy?

[eriklindahl]

Alderlake was probably a chip 3 years in the making. Not something they just accidentally created this fall.

If it actually will compete in power per watt we’ll have to see. The i9 desktop is crazily skewed towards performance vs efficiency.

[hugowells]

Even if they are faster, these things are furnaces. It’s easy to make a fast chip when you’re cranking up the voltage. I don’t think it will translate to real world performance

[benreiter]

I wonder how much this will translate into real world performance! How will Alder Lake chips be able to handle video scrubbing at 8k or After Effects project playback with 100 layers? That’s going to be the real metric for me.

[zeliglim]

As a tech consumer, happy to see competition

[strictnonconformist]

I would love to see Alder Lake on the same process as the M1 Max.

Intel has certainly made a pig fly, and if the 10 nm process is comparable for area, etc. then Intel is powering 4 times as much circuitry to do this for a given die area.

[alex.maxwell]

If x86 ain’t going nowhere anytime soon (thanks to Intel innovating again), then Apple’s switch to ARM will eventually turn out to be a dead end as they’ll keep pushing their users to a locked ecosystem.

[baskorosuryaputra]

I think it has always been about performance per watt for Apple especially when it comes to a laptop. What’s the point of having a laptop that has a gigantic power brick and needs to be tethered to the wall?

[iwells]

I’m interested in real world work flow. I now use the Affinity suite of programs for my daily graphic design business and have switched from a 2019 Core i9 MBP to the new M1 Max. Rendering, switching between multiple projects and battery life are outstanding. I think it’s because Affinity takes advantage of the unified memory architecture and just ‘feels’ so much faster when using. I was getting about 4 hours battery on the MBP when working; I now get a full work day on the M1 without worrying or constantly looking at my battery life. The fact that the M1’s performance is the same on battery or mains power is such a bonus and something often overlooked. If I wanted absolute max performance I would hold out for the new iMacs.

[JetBen]

0:15 C'mon man, comparing GPU for video encoding is pointless, what you are essentially comparing is the built-in encoder of the 3080 vs the one in the M1 chip. The 3080 smoke the 32cores GPU of the M1 max when it come to actual 3D work load, its not even close.

[DemetriPanici]

I'm just glad that Intel is making great strides to improve their chips again

[jey]

the idea a multibillion dollar company cancelled on a big deal because they got "surprised" by there own chip performance is so stupid i cant even..

[jasonblaise]

Good for Intel keep it up and make everybody compete so we can all win.

[zvisapir]

The thing is that Intel processors will have to throttle very fast when you try to squeeze performance from a laptop. This leaves the performance advantage only on paper as real life stress test will probably show. When Apple releases their desktop SOCs, which are agnostic to voltage and heat, we will all see how intel trails it behind once more.

[overkill]

Maybe faster, but when consider the power Efficient, the heat of intel chip, I really don’t think so

[icantgivecredit]

With this type of power draw, it seems the Intel CPU is really only going to be popular among professionals (or gamers) wanting custom workstations for their projects. I cannot imagine that most users -- especially those who have become accustomed to everything Apple silicon brings -- would find themselves ever wanting to return to the world of high heat output and blaring system fans.

[gobindsingh]

Great video. You've been pushing out content like crazy lately and I can tell you've been working hard. Keep at it!