Intel Core i5-1240P Alder Lake Faster Than Tiger Lake i7-1195G7 Flagship, Core i7-1280P On Par With AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX In Leaked Benchmarks

Hassan Mujtaba

The Intel Alder Lake-P Mobility lineup is coming to notebooks very soon and although the CPUs have been made official, there are still not a lot of benchmarks out there, especially for the 28W lineup.

Intel's Alder Lake-P 28W Laptop CPUs Benchmarked: Core i5-1240P Faster Than i7-1195G7, Core i7-1280P On Par With AMD's Ryzen 9 6900HX

Brand new benchmark results of Intel's Alder Lake Core i7-1280P and Core i5-1240P CPUs have leaked out within Geekbench. The difference between the Alder Lake-P and Alder Lake-H CPUs is that the former comes with a base TDP of 28W and a turbo power rating of 64W while the H-series comes with a 45W base TDP and a turbo power rating of up to 115W. As such, the Alder Lake-P line features lower clock speeds but most CPUs retain the same core configurations of up to 14 cores & 20 threads.

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The two CPUs that appeared within the benchmarks are the Intel Core i7-1280P and the Core i5-1240P. The Core i7-1240P features 12 cores (6+8), 20 threads, 24 MB of L3 cache, a base frequency of 1.8 GHz, and a boost frequency of 4.8 GHz. The Core i5-1240P features 12 cores (4+8), 16 threads, 12 MB of L3 cache, a 1.7 GHz base frequency, and a 4.4 GHz boost frequency. As told earlier, both CPUs feature a 28W base TDP and a 64W max turbo power rating.

The performance leaked out was within the same laptop but featured a different CPU config. The laptop, in particular, is the Lenovo '4810RD0100'. The Alder Lake Core i7-1280P configuration was equipped with 32 GB DDR4-2600 memory while the Core i5-1240P was configured with 16 GB of system memory. In terms of performance, the Core i7-1280P scored 1784 single-core and 9790 multi-core points while the Core i5-1240P scored 1648 single-core and 8550 multi-core points.

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The Intel Core i7-1280P Alder Lake CPU ended up on par with AMD's Ryzen 9 6900HX and Intel Core i9-11980HK, the latter featuring a much higher power draw while the former also has max power rating around 54-60W (Rembrandt HX class). The Alder Lake chip was much faster in the single-core tests. But that's not all, the mobility CPU also matches the 95W desktop-grade Core i9-11900K and Ryzen 7 5800X which is very impressive.

Moving over to the Intel Core i5-1240P, the CPU ended up faster than AMD's Ryzen 5 6600H and also delivers faster performance than the Intel Core i7-1195G7 Tiger Lake flagship which comes with a similar 28W base and 50-60W max turbo power rating. With this kind of performance, the chip ends up crushing its predecessor, the Core i5-1135G7, with a huge lead with more than 2x the performance uplift.

Intel Alder Lake-P CPU Geekbench Benchmark (Single-Core)
Single-Core Score
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Core i9-12900H
2k
Core i9-11900K
1.8k
Core i7-1280P
1.8k
Core i7-12650H
1.7k
Ryzen 7 5800X
1.7k
Core i5-1240P
1.6k
Ryzen 9 6900HX
1.6k
Core i9 11980HK
1.6k
Ryzen 5 5600X
1.6k
Core i5-12500H
1.6k
Ryzen 5980HX
1.5k
Ryzen 5 6600H
1.5k
Core i7-1195G7
1.5k
Ryzen 9 5900HX
1.4k
Core i5-1135G7
1.2k
Ryzen 5 5600H
1.2k
Intel Alder Lake-P CPU Geekbench Benchmark (Multi-Core)
Multi-Core Score
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8000
12000
16000
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24000
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12000
16000
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24000
Core i9-12900H
14.5k
Core i9-11900K
10.9k
Ryzen 7 5800X
10.3k
Ryzen 9 6900HX
10.2k
Core i7-12650H
10k
Core i7-1280P
9.8k
Core i9 11980HK
9.1k
Core i5-1240P
8.6k
Ryzen 5980HX
8.2k
Ryzen 5 5600X
8.1k
Ryzen 5 6600H
8.1k
Core i5-12500H
7.6k
Ryzen 9 5900HX
7.6k
Ryzen 5 5600H
5.5k
Core i7-1195G7
4.9k
Core i5-1135G7
4.2k

These are really huge gains if you take into account that we are looking at 28W chips and even with a 64W max power rating, that's still around half of what the previous high-end chips had to offer yet yielding similar or higher performance. We can't wait to see laptops powered by Intel's P & H series SKUs in the coming months which would also rock Intel's Arc Alchemist discrete GPUs.

Intel Alder Lake-P Laptop CPU Lineup Specs:

CPU NameCores / ThreadsBase ClockBoost ClockCacheGPU ConfigTDPMax Turbo Power
Intel Core i9-12950HX8+8 / 242.3 GHz5.0 GHz30 MB32 EU @ 1550 MHz55W157W
Intel Core i9-12900HX8+8 / 242.3 GHz5.0 GHz30 MB32 EU @ 1550 MHz55W157W
Intel Core i9-12900HK6+8 / 202.5 GHz5.0 GHz24 MB96 EU @ 1450 MHz45W115W
Intel Core i9-12900H6+8 / 202.5 GHz5.0 GHz24 MB96 EU @ 1450 MHz45W115W
Intel Core i7-12850HX8+4 / 202.1 GHz4.8 GHz25 MB32 EU @ 1450 MHz55W157W
Intel Core i7-12800HX8+4 / 202.0 GHz4.8 GHz25 MB32 EU @ 1450 MHz55W157W
Intel Core i7-12800H6+8 / 202.4 GHz4.8 GHz24 MB96 EU @ 1400 MHz45W115W
Intel Core i7-12700H6+8 / 202.3 GHz4.7 GHz24 MB96 EU @ 1400 MHz45W115W
Intel Core i7-12650HX6+8 / 202.0 GHz4.7 GHz25 MB32 EU @ 1450 MHz55W157W
Intel Core i7-12650H6+4 / 162.3 GHz4.7 GHz24 MB64 EU @ 1400 MHz45W115W
Intel Core i5-12600HX6+4 / 162.5 GHz4.6 GHz20 MB32 EU @ 1350 MHz55W157W
Intel Core i5-12600H4+8 / 162.7 GHz4.5 GHz18 MB80 EU @ 1400 MHz45W95W
Intel Core i5-12500H4+8 / 162.5 GHz4.5 GHz18 MB80 EU @ 1300 MHz45W95W
Intel Core i5-12450HX4+4 / 122.4 GHz4.4 GHz12 MB16 EU @ 1300 MHz55W157W
Intel Core i5-12450H4+4 / 122.0 GHz4.4 GHz12 MB48 EU @ 1200 MHz45W95W
Intel Core i7-1280P6+8 / 201.8 GHz4.8 GHz24 MB96 EU @ 1450 MHz28W64W
Intel Core i7-1270P4+8 / 162.2 GHz4.8 GHz18 MB96 EU @ 1400 MHz28W64W
Intel Core i7-1260P4+8 / 162.1 GHz4.7 GHz18 MB96 EU @ 1400 MHz28W64W
Intel Core i5-1250P4+8 / 161.7 GHz4.4 GHz18 MB80 EU @ 1400 MHz28W64W
Intel Core i5-1240P4+8 / 161.7 GHz4.4 GHz12 MB80 EU @ 1300 MHz28W64W
Intel Core i3-1220P2+8 / 121.5 GHz4.4 GHz12 MB64 EU @ 1100 MHz28W64W
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About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.

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