Intel’s gamble with hybrid microarchitecture for Alder Lake is seemingly paying dividends. Many leaks of both desktop and laptop processors have shown the 12th Gen processors in a good light, and this latest Geekbench run for the Intel Core i5-1250P is no different. The 12-core (4x Performance + 8x Efficient), 16-thread part, which reached up to 4,368 MHz peak clock rate, scored 1,611 points in the single-core test and 8,789 points in the multi-core test.
It’s difficult comparing Alder Lake chips because of their unique configurations. The single-core score of the Intel Core i5-1250P (bearing in mind this is a theoretical maximum as it is a single record) puts it ahead of desktop CPUs like the Intel Core i7-11700F (TDP: 65 W), i5-11600 (65 W), and the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X (65 W). It’s well beyond the 1,466 points listed in Geekbench’s average score chart for the i7-11800H (45 W). TDP for the i5-1250P is expected to be 28 W – much lower than the other chips mentioned above.
The multi-core score for the Intel Core i5-1250P is even harder to compare than the single-core performance results due to the low-power chip’s architecture. However, at 8,789 points, it again ranks above the same desktop chips: i7-11700F (8,442 points), i5-11600 (7,326 points), Ryzen 5 5600X (8,140 points). As for the powerful 45-W laptop predecessor: The Alder Lake i5-1250P also outscores the Tiger Lake i7-11800H (7,932 points).
A processor like the Intel Core i5-1250P is going to be well suited for the next generation of performance thin and light business-oriented laptops. Content creation should be possible on the go thanks to the powerful Alder Lake-P U28 processor combined with the high-end design and build of an MSI Prestige laptop. The only thing that really stands out as a complaint for Team Blue at the moment is the further torturing of the already convoluted naming scheme.
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Geekbench via @BenchLeaks