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Intel Core i3-8109U vs MediaTek Dimensity 1200

Last updated: 2026-05-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i3-8109U

Rank 2 - 96 %

MediaTek Dimensity 1200

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 76 %

Intel Core i3-8109U

Rank 1 - 100 %

MediaTek Dimensity 1200

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

1,185

8C / 8T · 3.00 GHz

1,114

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 4T · 3.20 GHz

2,524

8C / 8T · 3.00 GHz

3,165

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

881

8C / 8T · 3.00 GHz

868

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 4T · 3.20 GHz

2,021

8C / 8T · 3.00 GHz

3,075

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655

806

ARM Mali-G77 MP9

979

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i3-8109U	MediaTek Dimensity 1200
Family	Intel Core i3 (205)	Mediatek Dimensity (38)
CPU group	Intel Core i 8000U (8)	MediaTek Dimensity 1100/1200/1300 (3)
Architecture	Coffee Lake U	Cortex-A78 / Cortex-A55
Technology	14 nm	6 nm
Segment	Notebook	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket	BGA 1528
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i3-8109U	MediaTek Dimensity 1200
CPU Cores / Threads	2 / 4	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x 3.00 - 3.60 GHz	1x Cortex-A78 3.00 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		3x Cortex-A78 2.60 GHz
Core Cluster 3:		4x Cortex-A55 2.00 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	4.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i3-8109U	MediaTek Dimensity 1200
GPU name	Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655	ARM Mali-G77 MP9
GPU frequency	0.30 - 1.05 GHz	0.85 GHz
CUs / Shader	48 / 384	9 / 144
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	1
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	4 GB
Technology	14 nm	7 nm
Release date	Q4/2017	Q2/2019

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i3-8109U	MediaTek Dimensity 1200
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i3-8109U	MediaTek Dimensity 1200
Memory	DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s) LPDDR3-2133 (34.2 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	2	4
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i3-8109U	MediaTek Dimensity 1200
TDP	28 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down	20 W
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i3-8109U	MediaTek Dimensity 1200
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	Android
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q4/2017	Q1/2021
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i3-8109U is 4.3 stars (7 ratings), while MediaTek Dimensity 1200 has received 4.5 stars (20 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i3-8109U
2C / 4T · 3.00 - 3.60 GHz

★★★★★

MediaTek Dimensity 1200
8C / 8T · 3.00 GHz

★★★★★