Intel Alder Lake-P mobile processors could be very power hungry, leaks suggest

A new report has revealed the PL values of the upcoming Alder Lake-P and Alder Lake-M mobile processor architecture. While Alder Lake-M comes with rather conservative values maxing at 30W, Alder Lake-P goes well beyond that, reaching up to 115W.

Intel's hybrid processor architecture should be more efficient as it's based on a smaller node, but PL values will apparently increase slightly. According to Coelcanth's Dream (via @davidneco25320), there will be three variants of Alder Lake-P CPUs divided by TDP: 15W, 28W, and 45W.

The 15W and 28W variants should be Alder Lake-U, which come with 2x (15W) or 4x (28W) big cores and 8 small cores. As for the 45W variant, it likely is Alder Lake-H, packing 6x big cores and 8x small cores. As for the PL values, the 15W variant has a PL2 of 55W and the 28W variant a 64W PL2. Lastly, here's the 45W variant, sporting a 115W PL2 value.

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The report also included the PL values for Alder Lake-M. PL1 is set at 9W, while PL2 is 30W. The core configuration of these processors will be the same as the 15W variant of Alder Lake-U, featuring 2x big cores and 8x small cores.

All Alder Lake-P and Alder Lake-M variants seem to feature the same iGPU, which is expected to come with 96 EUs, which should be double the number of EUs in the desktop Alder Lake iGPU.

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KitGuru says: If these CPUs ship with these PLs, it will be hard for a laptop cooling system to handle. Most premium gaming laptops might be able to, but mainstream and entry-level laptops will probably have to throttle the CPU down to keep temperatures in check.

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