Put down your pitchforks: Intel’s 12th-gen CPUs aren’t power hogs

The Internet narrative for Intel’s stupidly fast 12th-gen Alder Lake CPUs has been set: They’re stupidly power hungry too. While that can be true, especially under heavy all-core loads, the actual truth is far more nuanced than the Twitter hot takes you’ve seen jammed into 280 characters. We briefly covered some of the nuances around […] https://www.pcworld.com/article/556749/stop-screaming-that-intels-alder-lake-is-a-power-hog-its-not.html