At present, a new generation of games based on Intel's 12th-generation Core platform is being listed one after another, and there will be a large wave of thin and light books coming one after another, which is also the two main forms of game books in recent years.
However, the game is the pursuit of performance, thin and light is the volume, and the user, the use of the product is not a single nature, but comprehensive, play the game also needs office entertainment, work also need leisure enjoyment, so more and more people hope that the notebook can be to a certain extent both good enough performance, and a sufficiently thin body.
Can such an "excessive" requirement be met?
On the 11th generation Core mobile platform, Intel tried to launch a special H35 series, between the traditional high-performance H45 series and the low-power U15 series, but it also caused some controversy.
This is mainly because the H35 series is not a new design, the hardware level and the U15 series, are originally based on low voltage, low power design, but relaxed the power consumption limit, thereby releasing higher performance.
At the same time, notebook manufacturers also lack relevant experience, and the use of the series is somewhat unfamiliar.
However, after a period of exploration, based on the H35 series, there have been many high-performance thin and light books, creation books, and all-round books, which have better taken into account the performance and body, and have been recognized by more and more users, especially the productivity workers who focus on content creation and the office family of moderate games.
To the 12th generation of Core, Intel did not follow the law, but according to the market and user needs, in the traditional H45 series, U15 series, not only the lower power consumption of the U9 series, but also a new design of a more balanced P28 series.
Each of the four series has its own characteristics, for different market positioning, for the new generation of notebooks to create a scalable architecture suitable for different segments, which has never been seen before.
This time, the P28 series has made a separate specification design for different functions at different power points, but the package method and size are the same as the H45 and U15 series (BGA 50×25×13 mm), and the interior is completely new.
In fact, it is no longer a derivative of the U series, the whole is closer to the high-performance H45 series, only slightly simplified in the platform function, removing a PCIe 4.0 x8 channel, still supporting two PCIe 4.0, LPDDR4X-4267/LPDDR5-5200/DDR4-3200/DDR5-4800 memory, four Thunderbolt 4 interfaces, eDP 1.4b, HDMI 2.0b, Wi-Fi 6E (Gig+) and so on.
Of course, the P28 series still adopts an innovative hybrid architecture, and has a performance core P core, energy efficiency core E core, which can flexibly adapt to different application environments and loads, and uniformly equipped with all 8 energy efficiency cores, which is more conducive to saving power consumption, extending endurance, and greatly improving multi-threaded performance.
On the product model, the P28 series also provides a variety of choices, the highest-end is i7-1280P, 6 performance cores plus 8 energy efficiency cores, a total of 14 cores and 20 threads, three-level cache up to 24MB, the frequency of the maximum turbo frequency to 4.8GHz, while there are 96 units of nuclear display, the frequency is also up to 1.45GHz.
Even the entry-level i3-1220P has 2 performance cores, 8 energy efficiency cores, 12MB L3 cache, 4.4GHz Turbo frequency, 64-cell core display and 1.1GHz frequency.
Such specifications are even similar to mainstream desktop models, but the basic power consumption (PL1) is only 28W, and the turbo power consumption (PL2) is open to 64W, that is, as long as the notebook volume and heat dissipation design are in place, it is completely possible to achieve mainstream desktop performance.
Intel also announced some performance indicators for the P28 series, first look at crossmark.
CrossMark is a new but already quite popular benchmark performance testing tool.
It is different from CPU-Z, CineBench and other theoretical running scores, the test load is closer to the real application scenario, mainly from the productivity, content creation, response speed of three aspects of the investigation, the final score can also be better reflected in the user's actual use of the environment, there will be no high running score but the game performance is very poor and other "high score low energy" situation.
Tests have shown that the i7-1280P is 20% higher than the top model i7-11957G of the 11th generation Core Low Power Edition, and far exceeds Apple's M1 Pro and AMD's Ryzen™ 7 5800U.
In the productivity scenario, the i7-1280P has increased by 12%, the response speed has increased by as much as 22%, and the content creation scene has reached a staggering 27%, which is also the strength of the M1 Pro but still lost in front of Intel.
In the WebXPRT 4 web browsing test, the i7-1280P performance was improved by 17%, the PugetBench for Photoshop photo editing test was improved by 30%, and there was no opponent in the low-power platform.
Even in the face of high-load 3D rendering tests such as Blender 3.0, the i7-1280P still performed well, and all performance cores and energy efficiency cores ran out of 100% of the usage, compared to the i7-1195G can save 50% of the time, only slightly lost to the Apple M1 Pro, and even from the high-performance flagship models such as the i8-11980HK are not much worse.
In addition, the P28 series of power consumption, performance release space is also wider, the official nominal range of 28-64W, generally used in the range of about 20-40W, not only multi-threaded performance leading Apple M1/M1 Pro, Ryzen™ 7 5800U, performance and power consumption is also more flexible, according to the needs, load to choose different power points, which is Intel's design goal.
According to Intel, there will be more than 250 thin and light notebook models based on the 12th generation Core this year, including the detachable foldable ultra-thin and light book based on the U9 series, the modern thin and light book based on the U15 series, and the performance thin and light book based on the P28 series.
Intel also specifically mentioned Lenovo's new Yoga 9i, 360-degree folding design, support for notebooks, tablets, demonstrations and other forms of use, not only using P28 series processors, but also in line with the new Intel Evo 3.0 stringent certification specifications.
The third edition of the Intel Evo specification upgrades key experiences, including 4 new intelligent collaboration technologies, continuous response covering the 25 most common tasks, 9+ hours of real-world scene endurance, less than 1 second wake-up time, charging half an hour with 4 hours of fast charging, etc., as well as 12 generation Core, Wi-Fi 6E (Gig+), connectivity performance suite, vision perception controller and other new key indicator technologies.
Intel revealed that it has worked with more than 150 ecological partners to create more than 100 models that meet the Evo 3.0 specifications and will be launched soon.
It can be expected that the subsequent birth of the 12th generation of Core P28 series, there will be more and more all-round notebooks with both high performance and thin body on the market, eliminating the game book, light and thin book has always been "well water does not violate the river water", allowing users to choose the isolation state that cannot be taken into account, giving manufacturers and users a richer and more flexible choice space, whether it is an office family, or gamers, or content creators, can have a more suitable high-performance thin and light book.