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The new 12900HK from Intel beats M1 Pro in both single core performance and multicore performance:

https://news.in-24.com/technology/414335.html

TDP: 35 - 45 watt

but of course, it's better to compare with 3 years old CPU, so the results will be much more impressive.



> The Lenovo notebook with a Core i9-12900HK achieved 1878 points in the single-threading run of Geekbench 5.4.3, and 12,058 points in the multi-threading test.

> A 14-inch MacBook Pro manages around 1750 (single threading) or 12,600 points (multithreading)

Higher in single-threaded only.


Yes, on this laptop, only single core is faster, but on some other laptops the overall performance of the intel CPU is higher:

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/82364/intel-core-i9-12900hk-m...

On this laptop it achieves > 13000 points in Geekbench Multicore.


that just means that it's getting faster, while still drawing a lot more power.

My older i9-based Mac was additionally having thermal problems when the AMD graphics chip was used, which added another 20+ watts to the power consumption: use of external screens, video conferencing, ...

The new MacBook Pro happens to vastly improve the power consumption of the CPU, the powerful GPU and the Thunderbolt interface.




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