A CPU belonging to the Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake-P mobile CPUs has been spotted in the Geekbench database. The CPU, part of the 12th Gen Alder Lake-P Mobility lineup has been spotted having 14 cores and 20 threads, with boost clocks up to 4.70 GHz.
The spotted mobile CPU features more cores and threads than any existing notebook chip and also comes with some respectable clock speeds despite it being a very early engineering sample. Intel’s Alder Lake 12th Gen family will be divided into two halves, the notebook Alder Lake-P and the desktop, Alder Lake-S lineups, both of which would be featuring a hybrid core architecture.
Alder Lake CPUs will have a hybrid core architecture, featuring both x86 ‘Cove’ cores and ‘Atom’ cores with the bigger Cove cores running in SMT (simultaneous multithreading) configuration, while the smaller Atom cores will not have any SMT.
In the benchmark spotted on Geekbench, the engineering sample features 14 cores and 20 threads. This configuration is only possible if the CPU has 6 big cores and 8 small cores. The bigger Golden Cove cores feature SMT, we get to 6 cores and 12 threads while the remaining core/thread count is covered by the 8 smaller Atom cores.
In other specifications, we can see the CPU running at a maximum boost frequency of 4.69 GHz, which is great for an engineering sample. Other specifications include 24 MB of L3 cache and 4 MB of L2 cache. The chip features the GT1 graphics chip that packs 96 Execution units or 768 cores clocking in at 1150 MHz. The OpenCL score for both of the Intel Alder Lake CPU entries ends up around 13,440 points.
The Intel Alder Lake-P 12th Gen CPUs will also bring the new LGA 1700 platform which is said to feature the latest and brand new I/O tech such as support for DDR5 memory, PCIe 5.0, and new Thunderbolt / WiFi capabilities. Desktop Alder Lake CPU lineup launches in Q3 of 2021.
