MediaTek Dimensity 1000C vs Intel Core i5-3470

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CPU comparison with benchmarks


MediaTek Dimensity 1000C CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Core i5-3470
MediaTek Dimensity 1000C Intel Core i5-3470

CPU comparison

MediaTek Dimensity 1000C or Intel Core i5-3470 - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.

The MediaTek Dimensity 1000C has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.00 GHz. Up to 12 GB of memory is supported in 4 memory channels. The MediaTek Dimensity 1000C was released in Q3/2020.

The Intel Core i5-3470 has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.60 GHz. The CPU supports up to 32 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Core i5-3470 was released in Q2/2012.
Mediatek Dimensity (36) Family Intel Core i5 (328)
MediaTek Dimensity 1000 (4) CPU group Intel Core i 3000 (31)
1 Generation 3
Cortex-A77 / Cortex-A55 Architecture Ivy Bridge S
Mobile Segment Desktop / Server
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The MediaTek Dimensity 1000C has 8 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the MediaTek Dimensity 1000C is 2.00 GHz while the Intel Core i5-3470 has 4 CPU cores and 4 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i5-3470 is at 3.20 GHz (3.60 GHz).

MediaTek Dimensity 1000C Characteristic Intel Core i5-3470
8 Cores 4
8 Threads 4
hybrid (big.LITTLE) Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading No
No Overclocking ? No
2.00 GHz
4x Cortex-A77
A-Core 3.20 GHz (3.60 GHz)
2.00 GHz
4x Cortex-A55
B-Core --

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

MediaTek Dimensity 1000C Characteristic Intel Core i5-3470
Mediatek APU 3.0 AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The MediaTek Dimensity 1000C or Intel Core i5-3470 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

ARM Mali-G57 MP5 GPU Intel HD Graphics 2500
0.95 GHz GPU frequency 0.65 GHz
-- GPU (Turbo) 1.10 GHz
Vallhall 1 GPU Generation 7
7 nm Technology 22 nm
2 Max. displays 3
5 Compute units 6
80 Shader 48
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
4 GB Max. GPU Memory 2 GB
12 DirectX Version 11.0

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

ARM Mali-G57 MP5 GPU Intel HD Graphics 2500
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) No
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) No
Decode / Encode Codec h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VP9 No
Decode / Encode Codec VP8 No
Decode Codec AV1 No
Decode / Encode Codec AVC Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VC-1 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG Decode

Memory & PCIe

The MediaTek Dimensity 1000C can use up to 12 GB of memory in 4 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 29.8 GB/s. The Intel Core i5-3470 supports up to 32 GB of memory in 2 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 25.6 GB/s.

MediaTek Dimensity 1000C Characteristic Intel Core i5-3470
LPDDR4X-3733 Memory DDR3-1600
12 GB Max. Memory 32 GB
4 (Quad Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
29.8 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 25.6 GB/s
No ECC No
-- L2 Cache --
-- L3 Cache 6.00 MB
-- PCIe version 3.0
-- PCIe lanes 16
-- PCIe Bandwidth 15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the MediaTek Dimensity 1000C is --, while the Intel Core i5-3470 has a TDP of 77 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

MediaTek Dimensity 1000C Characteristic Intel Core i5-3470
-- TDP (PL1 / PBP) 77 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. --

Technical details

The MediaTek Dimensity 1000C is manufactured in 7 nm and has 0.00 MB cache. The Intel Core i5-3470 is manufactured in 22 nm and has a 6.00 MB cache.

MediaTek Dimensity 1000C Characteristic Intel Core i5-3470
7 nm Technology 22 nm
Chiplet Chip design Monolithic
Armv8-A (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
-- ISA extensions SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
-- Socket LGA 1155
None Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT
No AES-NI Yes
Android Operating systems Windows 10, Linux
Q3/2020 Release date Q2/2012
-- Release price 184 $
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
⌀ Multi core performance in 3 CPU benchmarks

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
MediaTek Dimensity 1000C MediaTek Dimensity 1000C
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
598 (78%)
Intel Core i5-3470 Intel Core i5-3470
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
770 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
MediaTek Dimensity 1000C MediaTek Dimensity 1000C
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
2431 (95%)
Intel Core i5-3470 Intel Core i5-3470
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
2566 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
MediaTek Dimensity 1000C MediaTek Dimensity 1000C
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
782 (100%)
Intel Core i5-3470 Intel Core i5-3470
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
703 (90%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
MediaTek Dimensity 1000C MediaTek Dimensity 1000C
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
2736 (100%)
Intel Core i5-3470 Intel Core i5-3470
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
1943 (71%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
MediaTek Dimensity 1000C MediaTek Dimensity 1000C
ARM Mali-G57 MP5 @ 0.95 GHz
608 (100%)
Intel Core i5-3470 Intel Core i5-3470
Intel HD Graphics 2500 @ 1.10 GHz
106 (17%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
MediaTek Dimensity 1000C MediaTek Dimensity 1000C
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
5668 (100%)
Intel Core i5-3470 Intel Core i5-3470
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
4679 (83%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
MediaTek Dimensity 1000C MediaTek Dimensity 1000C
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-3470 Intel Core i5-3470
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
682 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
MediaTek Dimensity 1000C MediaTek Dimensity 1000C
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-3470 Intel Core i5-3470
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
2603 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
MediaTek Dimensity 1000C MediaTek Dimensity 1000C
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-3470 Intel Core i5-3470
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
1010 (100%)

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark

The AnTuTu 8 Benchmark measures the performance of a SoC. AnTuTu benchmarks the CPU, GPU, Memory as well as the UX (User Experience) by simulating browser and app usage. AnTuTu can benchmark any ARM CPU that runs under Android or iOS. Devices may not be directly compareable if the benchmark has been performed under different operating systems.

In the AnTuTu 8 benchmark, the single-core performance of a processor is only slightly weighted. The evaluation consists of the multi-core performance of the processor, the speed of the RAM and the performance of the internal graphics.
MediaTek Dimensity 1000C MediaTek Dimensity 1000C
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
427863 (100%)
Intel Core i5-3470 Intel Core i5-3470
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.
MediaTek Dimensity 1000C MediaTek Dimensity 1000C
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-3470 Intel Core i5-3470
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
833 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
MediaTek Dimensity 1000C MediaTek Dimensity 1000C
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-3470 Intel Core i5-3470
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
350 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
MediaTek Dimensity 1000C MediaTek Dimensity 1000C
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-3470 Intel Core i5-3470
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
1350 (100%)

Performance for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. The performance is given in the number (trillions) of arithmetic operations per second (TOPS).
MediaTek Dimensity 1000C MediaTek Dimensity 1000C
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
4.5 (100%)
Intel Core i5-3470 Intel Core i5-3470
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)

Devices using this processor

MediaTek Dimensity 1000C Intel Core i5-3470
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