Want to regain the throne of performance, can the 12-generation Core with 16 cores and 24 threads keep up with the 5950X?

Before Ryzen was born, Intel always believed in one thing: the consumer platform is nothing more than playing games, and four cores and eight threads are enough for light work. However, after the birth of the Ryzen, especially after the IPC performance caught up, Intel's so-called consumer-grade multi-core uselessness was completely disturbed. The 5950X with up to 16 cores and excellent single-core performance has made the Intel processor increasingly low in the hearts of consumers. Although most games are now unable to finish 8 cores, the 5950X with 16 cores and 32 threads makes the 11900K with only 8 cores extremely tasteless.

Regardless of the actual user experience, the recent public opinion in the overall technology circle can put a lot of pressure on Intel officials. In fact, the "ordinary and confident" circulating on the Internet is enough to show that Intel is comparable to the glue dual-core in the face of public opinion pressure.

Since the birth of the 3950X, Intel and AMD have been at a disadvantage in the consumer platform competition. Compared with AMD, Intel is a very conservative chip design company. It disdains AMD's chiplet-based IF bus design. Intel still insists on using the traditional single-chip design. But the reality is very cruel. In the competition of the same product, Intel does not have 16-core and 12-core products like 5950X and 5900X, and the multi-core performance has been beaten by AMD for two generations.

Obviously, if the 12th-generation Core does not come up with a decent product that can completely compete with the 5950X, not only will consumers not pay, but also shareholders will be completely furious. In this case, Intel finally put down its traditional beliefs under pressure and "followed" the small chip design of its rival AMD. Intel officially gave it a loud and pleasant name: modular design.

I don't know if Intel officially leaked the news . Recently, new news about the 12th generation Core has been circulating on the Internet.The news released this time is believed to be well known to everyone, that is, the information about the specifications of the Alder Lake-S engineering samples. The summary is nothing more than the following points.

, the chip with the leaked information marked as Intel Core-1800, is the top specification of Alder Lake-S. The basic frequency is 1.8 GHz

2, it is manufactured with big.LITTLE hybrid architecture and 10nm Enhanced SuperFin process, equipped with 8 high-performance Golden Cove and 8 high-efficiency Gracemont core

3, its TDP is 125W, can run for 56 seconds, PL2 is 228W, can run for 2.44ms, temperature is limited to 100 degrees -6 cores) and 4 GHz (7-8 cores)

5, Gracemont cores are 3.4 GHz (1-4 cores) and 3 GHz (5-8 cores). At 4.2 GHz, the voltage is 1.3147V

Intel's so-called big.LITTLE hybrid architecture is borrowed from the mobile phone processor design and AMD's chiplet design. Compared with the traditional single-chip design, this can control the production cost and improve the chip yield. However, due to the hybrid architecture design, there is no so-called hyper-threading design for the small eight-core, so there is a strange setting such as 16 cores and 24 threads.

After several generations of baptism, Intel finally has a fair matchup with AMD in terms of core count, 16 cores vs 16 cores, instead of being beaten by 16 cores in the past. Intel fans are certainly happy to hear such news, but doubts and product issues also follow.

First of all, power consumption problem. Although uses a 10nm process, due to the enhancement of the core and architecture, the overall power consumption is not much better than that of the previous generation.PL2 is set to 228W, which is just an engineering sample. In fact, the actual power consumption will be more terrifying due to the increase of the frequency after the market. No wonder netizens say that the power consumption of the processor is really getting more and more free, and you are embarrassed to use the flagship U without a 360 radiator.

The second is the scheduling problem caused by the unprecedented big.LITTLE hybrid architecture of X86. Unlike Apple processors on mobile phones, because these processors have used large and small cores for a long time, the scheduling of body and small cores is specified by the application, and application developers are regulated when developing applications when using large cores. , When to use a small core. This is the consensus reached by chip manufacturers and program developers, but there is no precedent for such a large core on the X86. It is estimated that software optimization may not be as good as the 5950X with all large cores. Previously, the scheduling of i5-L16G7 under win10 was basically a mess, the big core was not working, and the small core was watching the show. It seems that the wintel alliance has not optimized this scheduling yet.

Although these problems exist, we are most gratified to see that Intel has paid attention to the 12th generation Core. AMD is really a very magical technology company, and Intel has made earth-shaking changes in recent years. Intel squeezed too much toothpaste in the past, coupled with AMD's superior performance, which has led to a lot of public opinion pressure on Intel in recent years, and every time a new product comes out, it is worthless. This is all because the competition between the two is unprecedented and has surpassed the competition of today's mobile phone manufacturers. It's good that we all have easy access to cheap and powerful processors.