Intel introduced its most powerful mobile processors. The Alder Lake-HX series is not much inferior to a desktop CPU, with only a few differences.

First of all, Alder Lake-HX differs from Alder Lake-H and its desktop counterparts by being upgraded to 55 watts TDP. At the same time, the older models here have 16 cores, and four of the seven CPUs in the line have a maximum core count. But that’s because the two Core i9 models and the two older Core i7 models are nearly identical CPUs.

The differences are that the Core i9-12950HX and Core i7-12850HX support vPro functions, while the Core i9-12900HX and Core i7-12800HX support full overclocking. Overclocking is generally available on all models, but vPro versions have limited support.

The Core i5-12450HX only has eight cores and the iGPU is half the size of the others. Of course, such a processor would be inferior to current Alder Lake models with many cores and lower TDP at many tasks.

Intel, of course, provides graphics that its new products are much faster than the Ryzen 6000, but the company is gracefully silent about the difference in energy consumption. But Alder Lake-HX is a CPU for maximum performance, and greed is the result. Source