Intel tries to fight the dominance of the performance of the Apple M1 (and its various variants) through Alder Lake. It's louder, but...
Ever since Apple switched to Apple Silicon for Mac devices, the chip has always been compared to "conventional" processors from AMD and Intel, and now the M1 Pro and M1 Max are being compared to Intel's 12th generation Alder Lake processor.
It was Macworld that did this comparison. They compared the 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M1 Pro, the 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M1 Max, and the MSI GE76 Raider using the Core i9-12900HK, aka the fastest mobile processor from the Alder Lake series with 14 cores (the M1 Pro and M1 Max only have 10 cores). .
Testing is done with several benchmark software. First is Geekbench 5, in multi-core tests, Core i9 leads 5% and in single-core Core i9 leads 3.5%. You could say, this difference is very small and almost invisible difference.
Testing OpenCL graphics on Geekbench 5 showed a more marked difference. Where the Iris Xe which is the integrated GPU in the Core i9 is far behind the 32-core GPU in the M1 Max (the difference is up to 183%), and the 16-core GPU in the M1 Pro (76%).
Of course, when compared to the RTX 3080 Ti used in the GE76 Raider, the difference is no longer worth comparing, because the score is 2.4x higher than the M1 Max.
The difference in the performance of Alder Lake and Apple Silicon is only felt in Cinebench R23, namely the Core i9 Alder Lake 29% faster than the M1 Pro, as quoted by us from Macworld, Friday (28/1/2022).
However, the higher performance does not seem commensurate with the much higher power consumption. In the Cinebench R23 multi-core test, the GE76 Raider consistently consumes 130W to 140W of power, while the M1 Max consumes only 40W of power, or less than a third.
The impact is that the battery consumption is certainly more wasteful. When used to play videos, the GE76 Raider only lasted 6 hours while the MacBook Pro could last 17 hours.