Still, it's a big deal that Apple's top-tier M1 Max is already being outpaced by Intel's latest laptop chips. We'd like to see how Alder Lake laptops perform with only integrated graphics and in thinner and lighter designs to see how efficient Intel's platform really is. Neither the Alienware (3:05) or MSI (4:57) laptop could last longer than 5 hours in the same test, which tasks the laptop with endlessly surfing the web via Wi-Fi with its screen brightness set to 150 nits. Our own research bears this out as well: the 16-inch Pro packing an M1 Max chip lasted 15 and a half hours on a single charge in our battery test, making it one of the longest-lived laptops we've ever seen. Intel Alder Lake vs M1 Max: GeekbenchĪs MacWorld points out, the M1 Max is far more power-efficient than Intel's latest chips, at least compared to these first laptops that are more gaming centric. When you compare the results of the laptops packing Alder Lake chips against those of Apple's 16-inch MacBook Pro (2021) with a top-of-the-line M1 Max chip (10-core CPU, 32-core GPU), 64GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD for storage, you can see that Apple's chip can't outpace the latest Intel silicon. Notably, we ran the Geekbench 5.4 multi-core CPU benchmark (to measure overall performance) and our timed video encoding test using Handbrake (to measure real-world video encoding performance) on both these new laptops and Apple's 2021 MacBook Pros. While we can't run exactly the same tests on Windows and Apple laptops due to compatibility issues, there are a few laptop benchmarks we do run on both. They're both also big, 17-inch gaming laptops that weigh over 6 pounds apiece and have Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPUs, as well as at least 32GB of RAM (the Alienware has 64GB) and 4TB of SSD storage.
We know this because our lab team recently finished testing two new gaming laptops, an Alienware x17 and an MSI GE76 Raider, which each arrived with a new Intel Core i9-12900HK CPU inside.
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