Intel Core i3-12100 Benchmark, Test and specs
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The Intel Core i3-12100 has 4 cores with 8 threads and is based on the 12. gen of the Intel Core i3 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the LGA 1700 socket and was released in Q1/2022. The Intel Core i3-12100 scores 1,716 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 6,422 points.
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| Name: | Intel Core i3-12100 |
| Family: | Intel Core i3 |
| CPU group: | Intel Core i 12000 |
| Segment: | Desktop / Server |
| Generation: | 12 |
| Predecessor: | Intel Core i3-11100B |
| Successor: | Intel Core i3-13100 |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
The Intel Core i3-12100 has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i3-12100 is 3.30 GHz (4.30 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.
| CPU Cores / Threads: | 4 / 8 |
| Core architecture: | normal |
| Cores: | 4x Golden Cove |
| Hyperthreading / SMT: | Yes |
| Overclocking: | No |
| Frequency: | 3.30 GHz |
| Turbo Frequency (1 Core): | 4.30 GHz |
| Turbo Frequency (4 Cores): | 4.00 GHz |
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.
| AI hardware: | -- |
| AI specifications: | -- |
Internal Graphics
The Intel Core i3-12100 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i3-12100 uses the Intel UHD Graphics 730, which has 192 texture shaders and 24 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.
| GPU name: | Intel UHD Graphics 730 |
| GPU frequency: | 0.30 GHz |
| GPU (Turbo): | 1.40 GHz |
| Execution units: | 24 |
| Shader: | 192 |
| Max. GPU Memory: | 64 GB |
| Max. displays: | 3 |
| Generation: | 12 |
| Direct X: | 12 |
| Technology: | 14 nm |
| Release date: | Q1/2021 |
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.
| h265 / HEVC (8 bit): | Decode / Encode |
| h265 / HEVC (10 bit): | Decode / Encode |
| h264: | Decode / Encode |
| VP8: | Decode / Encode |
| VP9: | Decode / Encode |
| AV1: | Decode |
| AVC: | Decode / Encode |
| VC-1: | Decode |
| JPEG: | Decode / Encode |
Memory & PCIeThe processor can use up to 128 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 76.8 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system. |
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| Memory type: | DDR4-3200 DDR5-4800 |
| Max. Memory: | 128 GB |
| Memory channels: | 2 (Dual Channel) |
| Bandwidth: | 76.8 GB/s |
| ECC: | No |
| PCIe: | 5.0 x 20 |
| AES-NI: | Yes |
Thermal ManagementThe thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 60 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU. |
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| TDP (PL1 / PBP): | 60 W |
| TDP (PL2): | 89 W |
| TDP up: | -- |
| TDP down: | -- |
| Tjunction max.: | 100 °C |
Technical details
The Intel Core i3-12100 is made in 10 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 17.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.
| Technology: | 10 nm |
| Chip design: | Monolithic |
| Socket: | LGA 1700 |
| L2-Cache: | 5.00 MB |
| L3-Cache: | 12.00 MB |
| Architecture: | Alder Lake S |
| Operating systems: | Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux |
| Virtualization: | VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d |
| Instruction set (ISA): | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions: | SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX2+ |
| Release date: | Q1/2022 |
| Release price: | 122 $ |
| Part Number: | -- |
| Documents: | Technical data sheet |
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Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Core i3-12100 have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.
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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.
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AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX
8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H
8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS
8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12100
4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12100F
4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
16C 32T @ 4.90 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
12C 24T @ 4.80 GHz |
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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.
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Intel Core i9-9880H
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-9700
8C 8T @ 3.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-9700F
8C 8T @ 3.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12100
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12100F
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-9980HK
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-10505
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Cinebench R20 (Single-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 single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.|
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AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
16C 32T @ 4.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-10900K
10C 20T @ 5.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-10900KF
10C 20T @ 5.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12100
4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS
8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H
8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12100F
4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz |
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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.
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Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3
12C 24T @ 2.90 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 9 4900U
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12100
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12100F
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-10400F
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-10400
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz |
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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.|
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Intel Core i7-1270P
12C 16T @ 4.80 GHz |
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Intel Xeon W-11955M
8C 16T @ 5.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-12650HX
14C 20T @ 4.70 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12100
4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-12650H
10C 16T @ 4.70 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12100F
4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-1265UL
10C 12T @ 4.80 GHz |
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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.
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AMD EPYC 7351P
16C 32T @ 2.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-10900T
10C 20T @ 3.70 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-6900K
8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12100
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12100F
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 7535U
6C 12T @ 3.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-1365UE
10C 12T @ 1.70 GHz |
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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.
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AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-1345U
10C 12T @ 4.70 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E-2336
6C 12T @ 4.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12100
4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12100F
4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-1360P
12C 16T @ 5.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-12700F
12C 20T @ 4.90 GHz |
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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.
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Intel Xeon Gold 6128
6C 12T @ 3.50 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 4500
6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2
8C 16T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12100
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12100F
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 9 4900U
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4
10C 20T @ 2.60 GHz |
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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.
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AMD A10-5750M
AMD Radeon HD 8650G @ 0.72 GHz |
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AMD A10-5757M
AMD Radeon HD 8650G @ 0.72 GHz |
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AMD A10-9600P
AMD Radeon R5 - 384 (Bristol Ridge) @ 0.72 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12100
Intel UHD Graphics 730 @ 1.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12100TE
Intel UHD Graphics 730 @ 1.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12100E
Intel UHD Graphics 730 @ 1.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12100T
Intel UHD Graphics 730 @ 1.40 GHz |
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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.|
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Intel Xeon E5-1660 v2
6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-1255U
10C 12T @ 2.70 GHz |
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Intel Xeon W-1250E
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12100
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12100F
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-11600T
6C 12T @ 3.50 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3
12C 24T @ 2.70 GHz |
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Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 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.|
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AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS
8C 16T @ 4.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-11600KF
6C 12T @ 4.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-1255U
10C 12T @ 4.70 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12100
4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12100F
4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-11600K
6C 12T @ 4.90 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz |
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Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 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.|
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Intel Xeon E5-2618L v3
8C 16T @ 2.90 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF
6C 12T @ 3.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-10750H
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12100
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12100F
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E-2276M
6C 12T @ 2.80 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3
8C 16T @ 2.80 GHz |
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Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (SC)
503 entries
503 entries
Cinebench R23 (MC)
480 entries
480 entries
Cinebench R20 (SC)
633 entries
633 entries
Cinebench R20 (MC)
580 entries
580 entries
Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,597 entries
1,597 entries
Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,546 entries
1,546 entries
Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,357 entries
2,357 entries
Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,330 entries
2,330 entries
FP32 SP iGPU
1,872 entries
1,872 entries
PassMark CPU-Mark
2,290 entries
2,290 entries
Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,098 entries
1,098 entries
Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,093 entries
1,093 entries
The Intel Core i3-12100 came onto the market in the first quarter of 2022 and is based on the LGA 1700 socket. It can therefore be used in any mainboard with this socket, but when equipping the mainboard you should also consider the features of the processor , because it is of no use if the mainboard has various PCIe slots, but the processor does not have enough lanes for connection.
The processor is manufactured using the 10-nanometer process and is based on the Alder Lake S architecture. This is a CPU with 4 identical cores that have a basic clock frequency of 3.30 gigahertz. In turbo mode, the clock increases to up to 4.30 gigahertz, but only when a single core is loaded. The processor supports Hyperthreading technology, which means that it has 8 threads in addition to the 4 cores.
The Intel Core i3-12100 is equipped with an internal graphics unit. The Intel UHD Graphics 730, which was released in the first quarter of 2021, is used here. It is still manufactured using the 14-nanometer process and has a base clock of 0.30 gigahertz. The maximum dynamic clock frequency is 1.40 gigahertz and with its 24 execution units and 192 shader units it achieves a theoretical FP32 computing power of 538 GigaFLOPS. The graphics unit from the twelfth generation of Intels integrated graphics solutions can use up to 64 gigabytes of the built-in RAM as graphics memory.
You can either use DDR4-3200 modules or the newer DDR5-4800 type RAM. With the 2 existing memory channels, up to 128 gigabytes of RAM can be operated with the Intel Core i3-12100. The maximum bandwidth that the main memory can achieve in connection with the processor is 76.8 GB/s.
The processor has 20 PCIe lanes in version 5.0 for connecting internal expansion cards.
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