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Intel Core i5-3570K vs MediaTek Dimensity 1080

Last updated: 2026-07-02

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 92 %

Intel Core i5-3570K

Rank 1 - 100 %

MediaTek Dimensity 1080

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-3570K

Rank 2 - 93 %

MediaTek Dimensity 1080

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

755

8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz

1,034

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

2,286

8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz

2,509

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

4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

835

8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz

732

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

4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

2,866

8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz

2,219

More benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 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

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 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

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-3570K	MediaTek Dimensity 1080
Family	Intel Core i5 (336)	Mediatek Dimensity (38)
CPU group	Intel Core i 3000 (31)	MediaTek Dimensity 10xx (2)
Architecture	Ivy Bridge S	Cortex-A78 / Cortex-A55
Technology	22 nm	6 nm
Segment	Desktop	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket	LGA 1155
Predecessor	Intel Core i5-2550k
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i5-3570K	MediaTek Dimensity 1080
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x 3.40 - 3.80 GHz	2x Cortex-A78 2.60 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		6x Cortex-A55 2.00 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i5-3570K	MediaTek Dimensity 1080
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 4000	ARM Mali-G68 MP4
GPU frequency	0.65 - 1.15 GHz
CUs / Shader	16 / 128	4 / 64
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	1
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB
Technology	22 nm	6 nm
Release date	Q1/2011	Q2/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-3570K	MediaTek Dimensity 1080
AI hardware		Mediatek APU 3.0
AI specifications		MediaTek APU 3.0 @ 4.5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i5-3570K	MediaTek Dimensity 1080
Memory	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	LPDDR5-5500 (44.0 GB/s) LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i5-3570K	MediaTek Dimensity 1080
TDP	77 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i5-3570K	MediaTek Dimensity 1080
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Android
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
Release date	Q2/2012	Q4/2022
Release price	235 $
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 i5-3570K is 4.0 stars (33 ratings), while MediaTek Dimensity 1080 has received 4.3 stars (85 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i5-3570K
4C / 4T · 3.40 - 3.80 GHz

★★★★★

MediaTek Dimensity 1080
8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz

★★★★★