Intel 12th Gen Core “Alder Lake-S” Processors to Feature Up to 20 Percent Single-Thread Performance Uplift

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Intel’s next lineup of desktop processors, the 12th Gen Core “Alder Lake-S” series, will boast a single-thread performance increase of up to 20 percent versus its predecessors. The impressive figure stems from an official slide leaked by VideoCardz, which confirmed that the chips will also feature improved SoC power and up to twice the multi-thread performance. Additionally, Intel’s 12th Gen Core “Alder Lake-S” processors include support for DDR5 memory, Intel Wi-Fi 6E, and Thunderbolt 4.







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[Brian_B]

Believe it when I see it

 

[Burticus]

Does single core perf mean anything outside of games anymore? I mean multi-core seems to be where it's at.. .and been at for 10 years+

 

[LazyGamer]

Does single core perf mean anything outside of games anymore? I mean multi-core seems to be where it's at.. .and been at for 10 years+

For every task that must be completed 'in order', absolutely. Plenty of industrial examples out there too, it's just that there's few things that consumers do that simply cannot be parallelized or even just pawned off on dedicated hardware.

Apple's M1 CPU is the penultimate example here; paltry CPU performance which should turn people off, yet doesn't because Apple spent the last decade building hardware acceleration for everything that people actually do. The approach has very obvious limits of course. It's just that they're not limits that most consumers are really concerned about when it comes to personal computing.

So yeah, games will probably stay at least moderately single-thread bound, and we'll likely have other examples for consumers that come along eventually too.