Of course, the main question is whether we can trust the given benchmarks. Obviously, these are benchmarks originating in China, but they have not yet appeared, or we do not know about them.
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According to their overall processing, these will also not be official benchmarks, which should be shown somewhere by Intel itself, as evidenced by the rather inconsistent labeling of individual processors. There is also the question of what and what was tested on it, ie whether it was the final version of Alder Lake on a suitably equipped platform. It doesn’t even have to be tests performed at once, but differently collected results, so it is really necessary to take them from reserve.
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The first two benchmarks relate to single-threaded and multi-threaded performance in Geekbench 5, where Alder Lake does stand out, but keep in mind that the vertical axis of the first graph doesn’t start at zero, so the differences aren’t that big (this is true for some others) . In the latter case, it is different, and it can also be seen that Ryzen processors can already chase Alder Lake, except for Ryzen 5 vs. Core i5. Here, Alder Lake has the advantage of four weaker cores in addition, which is a 10C / 16T processor compared to Ryzen with 6C / 12T, which is probably the most significant result.
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We also have video coding tests, where the results turned out very similarly to the Geekbench 5 multithreaded test. The difference is that the Ryzens like the H2BOT x265 benchmark better and the Core processors a certain x264 FullHD benchmark.
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Interesting and rather unflattering results for Alder Lake showed PCMark 10, which showed only the Core i9, which managed to beat Ryzen 9 in only one subtest and overall did not inspire much compared to Rocket Lake.
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Finally, we have Blender and CPU performance, which, unlike previous tests, is about achieving the lowest possible values. Here, the Alder Lake Core i9 can be described as slightly better than the 16-core Ryzen, while the Alder Lake Core i5 is, as expected, significantly better than the modern Ryzen 5.
What does this mean? If we assume that these results will more or less correspond to reality, then Alder Lake could be interesting mainly due to the single-threaded performance of its strong cores, which should be reflected in games that generally do not use more than eight cores. However, overall multi-threaded performance in productive applications should remain comparable when comparing Ryzens and Core with the same number of physical cores.
However, this does not apply to the Core i5 and Ryzen 5, where AMD is at a clear disadvantage, as its processor must fight the same number of strong Intel cores, which will also have four weaker cores on hand. In other words, Alder Lake could be very successful in the case of its medium weight.
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