Intel Core i3-12100F Benchmark, Test and specs

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The Intel Core i3-12100F 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 i3-12100F scores 1,716 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 6,422 points.
Intel Core i3-12100F

CPU lineage

The segment in which we have classified the Intel Core i3-12100F. Here you can see if it is a desktop processor or a mobile processor or which processor may be the successor of the Intel Core i3-12100F.

Name: Intel Core i3-12100F
Family: Intel Core i3
CPU group: Intel Core i 12000
Segment: Desktop / Server
Generation: 12
Predecessor: --
Successor: Intel Core i3-13100F

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i3-12100F has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i3-12100F 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

Memory & PCIe

The 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.

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 Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 58 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.

TDP (PL1 / PBP): 58 W
TDP (PL2): 89 W
TDP up: --
TDP down: --
Tjunction max.: 100 °C

Technical details

The Intel Core i3-12100F 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: 97 $
Part Number: --
Documents: Technical data sheet

Benchmark results

Verified Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Core i3-12100F 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.

AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX
8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz
1662
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H
8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz
1662
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS
8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz
1662
Intel Core i3-12100F Intel Core i3-12100F
4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz
1658
Intel Core i3-12100 Intel Core i3-12100
4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz
1658
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
16C 32T @ 4.90 GHz
1644
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
12C 24T @ 4.80 GHz
1636
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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.

Intel Core i9-9880H Intel Core i9-9880H
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz
8657
Intel Core i7-9700 Intel Core i7-9700
8C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
8540
Intel Core i7-9700F Intel Core i7-9700F
8C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
8540
Intel Core i3-12100F Intel Core i3-12100F
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
8443
Intel Core i3-12100 Intel Core i3-12100
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
8443
Intel Core i9-9980HK Intel Core i9-9980HK
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz
8370
Intel Core i5-10505 Intel Core i5-10505
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz
8294
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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.

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
16C 32T @ 4.90 GHz
647
Intel Core i9-10900K Intel Core i9-10900K
10C 20T @ 5.30 GHz
645
Intel Core i9-10900KF Intel Core i9-10900KF
10C 20T @ 5.30 GHz
645
Intel Core i3-12100F Intel Core i3-12100F
4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz
642
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS
8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz
642
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H
8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz
642
Intel Core i3-12100 Intel Core i3-12100
4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz
642
Show all Cinebench R20 (Single-Core) results



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.

Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3
12C 24T @ 2.90 GHz
3299
AMD Ryzen 9 4900U AMD Ryzen 9 4900U
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz
3292
AMD Ryzen 5 4600H AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz
3247
Intel Core i3-12100F Intel Core i3-12100F
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
3204
Intel Core i3-12100 Intel Core i3-12100
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
3204
Intel Core i5-10400F Intel Core i5-10400F
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz
3197
Intel Core i5-10400 Intel Core i5-10400
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz
3197
Show all Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core) results



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.

Intel Core i7-1270P Intel Core i7-1270P
12C 16T @ 4.80 GHz
2164
Intel Xeon W-11955M Intel Xeon W-11955M
8C 16T @ 5.00 GHz
2164
Intel Core i7-12650HX Intel Core i7-12650HX
14C 20T @ 4.70 GHz
2162
Intel Core i3-12100F Intel Core i3-12100F
4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz
2157
Intel Core i7-12650H Intel Core i7-12650H
10C 16T @ 4.70 GHz
2157
Intel Core i3-12100 Intel Core i3-12100
4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz
2157
Intel Core i7-1265UL Intel Core i7-1265UL
10C 12T @ 4.80 GHz
2154
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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.

AMD EPYC 7351P AMD EPYC 7351P
16C 32T @ 2.90 GHz
7485
Intel Core i9-10900T Intel Core i9-10900T
10C 20T @ 3.70 GHz
7476
Intel Core i7-6900K Intel Core i7-6900K
8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz
7471
Intel Core i3-12100F Intel Core i3-12100F
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
7428
Intel Core i3-12100 Intel Core i3-12100
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
7428
AMD Ryzen 5 7535U AMD Ryzen 5 7535U
6C 12T @ 3.50 GHz
7423
Intel Core i7-1365UE Intel Core i7-1365UE
10C 12T @ 1.70 GHz
7423
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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.

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz
1720
Intel Core i5-1345U Intel Core i5-1345U
10C 12T @ 4.70 GHz
1719
Intel Xeon E-2336 Intel Xeon E-2336
6C 12T @ 4.80 GHz
1718
Intel Core i3-12100F Intel Core i3-12100F
4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz
1716
Intel Core i3-12100 Intel Core i3-12100
4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz
1716
Intel Core i7-1360P Intel Core i7-1360P
12C 16T @ 5.00 GHz
1712
Intel Core i7-12700F Intel Core i7-12700F
12C 20T @ 4.90 GHz
1712
Show all Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core) results



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.

Intel Xeon Gold 6128 Intel Xeon Gold 6128
6C 12T @ 3.50 GHz
6455
AMD Ryzen 5 4500 AMD Ryzen 5 4500
6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz
6432
Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2 Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2
8C 16T @ 3.60 GHz
6428
Intel Core i3-12100F Intel Core i3-12100F
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
6422
Intel Core i3-12100 Intel Core i3-12100
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
6422
AMD Ryzen 9 4900U AMD Ryzen 9 4900U
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz
6422
Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4 Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4
10C 20T @ 2.60 GHz
6422
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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.

Intel Xeon E5-1660 v2 Intel Xeon E5-1660 v2
6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz
13919
Intel Core i7-1255U Intel Core i7-1255U
10C 12T @ 2.70 GHz
13905
Intel Xeon W-1250E Intel Xeon W-1250E
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz
13894
Intel Core i3-12100F Intel Core i3-12100F
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
13880
Intel Core i3-12100 Intel Core i3-12100
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
13880
Intel Core i5-11600T Intel Core i5-11600T
6C 12T @ 3.50 GHz
13879
Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3
12C 24T @ 2.70 GHz
13829
Show all Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark results



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.

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U
8C 16T @ 1.70 GHz
3446
Intel Xeon E5-1650 v4 Intel Xeon E5-1650 v4
6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz
3425
AMD Ryzen 5 1600X AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
6C 12T @ 3.30 GHz
3367
Intel Core i3-12100F Intel Core i3-12100F
4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz
3352
Intel Core i7-7800X Intel Core i7-7800X
6C 12T @ 3.50 GHz
3341
AMD Ryzen 5 2600 AMD Ryzen 5 2600
6C 12T @ 3.40 GHz
3340
Intel Core i5-10500H Intel Core i5-10500H
6C 12T @ 2.50 GHz
3339
Show all CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core) results



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.

AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS
8C 16T @ 4.80 GHz
247
Intel Core i5-11600KF Intel Core i5-11600KF
6C 12T @ 4.90 GHz
245
Intel Core i7-1255U Intel Core i7-1255U
10C 12T @ 4.70 GHz
245
Intel Core i3-12100F Intel Core i3-12100F
4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz
242
Intel Core i3-12100 Intel Core i3-12100
4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz
242
Intel Core i5-11600K Intel Core i5-11600K
6C 12T @ 4.90 GHz
241
AMD Ryzen 7 6800U AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz
237
Show all Cinebench R15 (Single-Core) results



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.

Intel Xeon E5-2618L v3 Intel Xeon E5-2618L v3
8C 16T @ 2.90 GHz
1233
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF
6C 12T @ 3.40 GHz
1221
Intel Core i7-10750H Intel Core i7-10750H
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz
1216
Intel Core i3-12100F Intel Core i3-12100F
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
1204
Intel Core i3-12100 Intel Core i3-12100
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
1204
Intel Xeon E-2276M Intel Xeon E-2276M
6C 12T @ 2.80 GHz
1196
Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3
8C 16T @ 2.80 GHz
1190
Show all Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core) results



Benchmarks


News and articles for the Intel Core i3-12100F


The Intel Core i3-12100F is a desktop/server processor released by Intel in the first quarter of 2022. The processor comes from the twelfth generation of Intels i3 family.

The processor has four CPU cores with eight threads. The cores are built with 4x Golden Cove and uses the Hyperthreading technology developed by Intel, the processor cannot be overclocked. The clock frequency of the processor is 3.30 gigahertz, the turbo clock frequency (1 core) is 4.30 gigahertz and the turbo clock frequency (4 cores) is 4.00 GHz. The processor supports DDR4-3200 and DDR5-4800 memory types. It has 2 memory channels and a maximum of 128 GB of RAM can be used. The bandwidth is 76.8 GB/s. PCIe is integrated in the 5.0 generation with 20 PCI Express lanes.

The minimum thermal design power (TDP) of the Intel Core i3-12100F is 58 watts and the maximum TDP is 89 watts. The maximum allowed heat for the processor is 100 °C.

The chip design is monolithic. The processor is based on the LGA 1700 socket. The architecture is based on Alder Lake S and the processor is compatible with Windows 10 and 11, as well as Linux operating systems. The release price for the processor was $97 in the first quarter of 2022.

In the Cinebench R23 (single-core) test, the Intel Core i3-12100F has a score of 1,658 and is therefore only slightly below the AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS. In the Cinebench R23 (multi-core) test, the processor scored 8,443 points and is therefore only just below the Intel Core i7-9700F with 8,540 points. It scored 642 points in the Cinebench R20 (single-core) test and 3,204 points in the Cinebench R20 (multi-core) test. It scored 242 points in the Cinebench R15 (single-core) test and 1,204 points in the R15 (multi-core). It scored 1,716 points in Geekbench 5, 64bit (single-core) and 6,428 points in Geekbench 5, 64bit (multi-core).


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