After Intel yesterday lifted the ban on publishing tests of Alder Lake processors, it became finally clear what they are capable of. Alas, against the background of Ryzen 5000 processors, the increase in performance does not look devastating, but in terms of heating and power consumption, Alder Lake is definitely losing to competitors. But what if we compare Alder Lake to Apple’s latest M1 Pro and M1 Max SoCs?
It turned out that in the Passmark benchmark, in a single-threaded test, the Core i9-12900K scores 4243 points and outperforms both the M1 Pro (it has 3880 points) and the M1 Max (3850 points).
In Geekbench 5, the Core i9-12900K also crushes the M1 Max, and in this case we are already talking about both a single-threaded test and a multi-threaded one. The test results of the new flagship Intel – 2004 and 18,534 points. M1 Max results – 1764 and 12,430 points. Interestingly, in Geekbench, even the Core i5-12600K is faster than the M1 Max.
In general, in terms of “synthetic” performance, Alder Lake looks good, another thing is that the software for fresh Apple computers is already being optimized for the Arm architecture, and when comparing performance in real applications, the preponderance will probably be on the side of proprietary M1 SoCs. What’s more, Apple platforms use less power and run cooler, making laptops quieter and last longer.
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