Intel 12th-Gen Alder Lake Release Date, Benchmarks, Specifications, and All We Know

Intel's 12th-Gen Alder Lake chip will bring the company's hybrid architecture, which combines a mix of larger high-performance cores paired with smaller high-efficiency cores, to desktop x86 PCs for the first time. That represents a massive strategic shift as Intel looks to regain the uncontested performance lead against AMD's Ryzen 5000 series processors. AMD's Zen 3 architecture has taken the lead in our Best CPUs and CPU Benchmarks hierarchy, partly on the strength of their higher core counts. That's not to mention Apple's M1 processors that feature a similar hybrid design and come with explosive performance improvements of their own.

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Intel 12th-Gen Alder Lake Release Date, Benchmarks, Specifications, and All We Know

Into the hybrid x86 era

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