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MediaTek Dimensity 1200 vs Intel Core i3-8130U

Last updated: 2026-06-05

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 %

MediaTek Dimensity 1200

Rank 2 - 99 %

Intel Core i3-8130U

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

MediaTek Dimensity 1200

Rank 2 - 66 %

Intel Core i3-8130U

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.00 GHz

1,114

2C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

1,141

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.00 GHz

3,165

2C / 4T · 2.80 GHz

2,168

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

8C / 8T · 3.00 GHz

868

2C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

835

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

8C / 8T · 3.00 GHz

3,075

2C / 4T · 2.80 GHz

1,772

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

ARM Mali-G77 MP9

979

Intel UHD Graphics 620

384

More benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 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

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 1200	Intel Core i3-8130U
Family	Mediatek Dimensity (38)	Intel Core i3 (205)
CPU group	MediaTek Dimensity 1100/1200/1300 (3)	Intel Core i 8000U (KL) (7)
Architecture	Cortex-A78 / Cortex-A55	Kaby Lake U Refresh
Technology	6 nm	14 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket		BGA 1356
Predecessor		Intel Core i3-7130U
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 1200	Intel Core i3-8130U
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	2 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	1x Cortex-A78 3.00 GHz	2x 2.20 - 3.40 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	MediaTek Dimensity 1200	Intel Core i3-8130U
GPU name	ARM Mali-G77 MP9	Intel UHD Graphics 620
GPU frequency	0.85 GHz	0.30 - 1.00 GHz
CUs / Shader	9 / 144	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1	3
Max. GPU Memory	4 GB	16 GB
Technology	7 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q2/2019	Q3/2016

NPU AI performance

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 1200	Intel Core i3-8130U
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 1200	Intel Core i3-8130U
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s) LPDDR3-2133 (34.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	16 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	4	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe		3.0 x 12
PCIe Bandwidth		11.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 1200	Intel Core i3-8130U
TDP		15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down		10 W
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 1200	Intel Core i3-8130U
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	Android	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions		SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q1/2021	Q1/2018
Release price		281 $
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 MediaTek Dimensity 1200 is 4.5 stars (20 ratings), while Intel Core i3-8130U has received 3.7 stars (29 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

MediaTek Dimensity 1200
8C / 8T · 3.00 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i3-8130U
2C / 4T · 2.20 - 3.40 GHz

★★★★★