Intel Core i3-1215U Benchmark, Test and specs
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The Intel Core i3-1215U has 6 cores with 8 threads and is based on the 12. gen of the Intel Core i3 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the BGA 1744 socket and was released in Q1/2022. The Intel Core i3-1215U scores 1,596 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 5,328 points.
CPU lineageThe segment in which we have classified the Intel Core i3-1215U. 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 i3-1215U. |
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| Name: | Intel Core i3-1215U |
| Family: | Intel Core i3 |
| CPU group: | Intel Core i 1200P/1200U |
| Segment: | Mobile |
| Generation: | 12 |
| Predecessor: | -- |
| Successor: | Intel Core i3-1315U |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
The Intel Core i3-1215U has 6 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i3-1215U is 1.20 GHz (4.40 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.
| CPU Cores / Threads: | 6 / 8 |
| Core architecture: | hybrid (big.LITTLE) |
| A-Core: | 2x Golden Cove |
| B-Core: | 4x Gracemont |
| Hyperthreading / SMT: | Yes |
| Overclocking: | No |
| A-Core Frequency: | 1.20 GHz (4.40 GHz) |
| B-Core Frequency: | 0.90 GHz (3.30 GHz) |
Internal Graphics
The Intel Core i3-1215U has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i3-1215U uses the Intel Iris Xe Graphics 64 (Alder Lake), which has 512 texture shaders and 64 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.
| GPU name: | Intel Iris Xe Graphics 64 (Alder Lake) |
| GPU frequency: | 0.30 GHz |
| GPU (Turbo): | 1.10 GHz |
| Execution units: | 64 |
| Shader: | 512 |
| Max. GPU Memory: | 32 GB |
| Max. displays: | 4 |
| Generation: | 13 |
| Direct X: | 12.1 |
| Technology: | 10 nm |
| Release date: | Q1/2022 |
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 |
| VP9: | Decode / Encode |
| AV1: | Decode |
| AVC: | Decode / Encode |
| VC-1: | Decode |
| JPEG: | Decode / Encode |
Memory & PCIeThe processor can use up to 64 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 LPDDR4X-4266 LPDDR5-5200 |
| Max. Memory: | 64 GB |
| Memory channels: | 2 (Dual Channel) |
| Bandwidth: | 76.8 GB/s |
| ECC: | No |
| PCIe: | 4.0 x 28 |
| AES-NI: | Yes |
Thermal ManagementThe thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 15 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): | 15 W |
| TDP (PL2): | 55 W |
| TDP up: | -- |
| TDP down: | -- |
| Tjunction max.: | 100 °C |
Technical details
The Intel Core i3-1215U 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 14.50 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: | BGA 1744 |
| L2-Cache: | 4.50 MB |
| L3-Cache: | 10.00 MB |
| Architecture: | Alder Lake U |
| 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 |
| Release date: | Q1/2022 |
| Release price: | -- |
| Part Number: | -- |
| Documents: | Technical data sheet |
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Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Core i3-1215U 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.
Screenshots:
Screenshots:
- Geekbench 5.5.0 (8 GB LDDR4X-4266), Windows 11 Home
- Cinebench R23 (16 GB LPDDR5-4800), Windows 11 Home
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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Intel Core i3-12100
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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Intel Core i3-1215U
6C 8T @ 4.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-11900F
8C 16T @ 5.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-11900
8C 16T @ 5.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-12400F
6C 12T @ 4.40 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 i7-4930K
6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U
6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
6C 12T @ 3.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-1215U
6C 8T @ 1.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-1185G7
4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 1600
6C 12T @ 3.40 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 1600
6C 12T @ 3.40 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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AMD Ryzen 5 5600
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 7 5800
8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E-2336
6C 12T @ 4.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-1215U
6C 8T @ 4.40 GHz |
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Apple A14 Bionic
6C 6T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E-2314
4C 4T @ 4.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-1195G7
4C 8T @ 5.00 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 Ryzen 3 PRO 4450U
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2637 v3
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-10810U
6C 12T @ 1.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-1215U
6C 8T @ 1.80 GHz |
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Intel Xeon D-1736NT
8C 16T @ 3.10 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E3-1240 v3
4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-7920HQ
4C 8T @ 3.70 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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Intel Xeon E-2314
4C 4T @ 4.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-1255U
10C 12T @ 4.70 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-11900H
8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-1215U
6C 8T @ 4.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-1250U
10C 12T @ 4.70 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-1260U
10C 12T @ 4.70 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
8C 16T @ 4.60 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 D-1541
8C 16T @ 2.10 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 2600
6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E-2244G
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-1215U
6C 8T @ 1.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-1155G7
4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 3500X
6C 6T @ 4.00 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 3 3300X
4C 8T @ 4.30 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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Intel Core i5-1230U
Intel Iris Xe Graphics 80 (Alder Lake) @ 0.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-1240U
Intel Iris Xe Graphics 80 (Alder Lake) @ 0.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-6770HQ
Intel Iris Pro Graphics 580 @ 0.95 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-1215U
Intel Iris Xe Graphics 64 (Alder Lake) @ 1.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-1215UL
Intel Iris Xe Graphics 64 (Alder Lake) @ 1.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-1220P
Intel Iris Xe Graphics 64 (Alder Lake) @ 1.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-1038NG7
Intel Iris Plus Graphics (Ice Lake G7) @ 1.05 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 E-2186M
6C 12T @ 2.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-6850K
6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-11100B
4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-1215U
6C 8T @ 1.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-9850H
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 5475U
4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3
8C 16T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (SC)
503 entries
503 entries
Cinebench R23 (MC)
480 entries
480 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
1,871 entries
1,871 entries
PassMark CPU-Mark
2,290 entries
2,290 entries
The Intel Core i3-1215U is a notebook processor based on Intels "Alder Lake U" architecture. It uses a hybrid core layout and is equipped with 2 large P cores (Golden Cove) and 4 smaller and more economical E cores (Gracemont). The hybrid layout is called big.LITTLE and combines different CPU architectures (CPU cores).
The advantage of a hybrid core structure is that the CPU is significantly more economical than a processor with CPU cores of the same size in partial load scenarios, in which a processor is often found in private use. Background tasks are handled by the smaller and more efficient CPU cores, while the larger CPU cores are put to sleep. If maximum performance is required, the differently sized CPU cores can also operate in a network.
The clock frequency of the P cores of the Intel Core i3-1215U is a low 1.2 GHz, but up to 4.4 GHz are possible in turbo mode. The smaller E cores only clock at 0.9 GHz (turbo mode 3.3 GHz).
With the Intel Iris Xe 64, the Intel Core i3-1215U has a fairly fast integrated graphics unit, also called iGPU. With a computing power of over 1 TFLOP/s, older games can also be played. All modern video codecs are supported for video playback, including the newer AV1 codec. This enables the processor to play videos with a very low processor load and low energy consumption.
Up to 64 GB of RAM can be connected to the Intel Core i3-1215U. Both older DDR4 / LPDDR4 modules and newer DDR5 / LPDDR5 modules are supported. The maximum memory bandwidth when using two memory channels is 76.8 GB/s with DDR5-4800 memory.
External devices such as an additional graphics card or a fast M.2 SSD can be connected via PCIe 4.0 with up to 28 lines (depending on the mainboard chipset).
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