Intel Core i3-3220 Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2023-04-19

The Intel Core i3-3220 has 2 cores with 4 threads and is based on the 3. gen of the Intel Core i3 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the LGA 1155 socket and was released in Q3/2012. The Intel Core i3-3220 scores 648 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 1,376 points.

CPU lineage
The segment in which we have classified the Intel Core i3-3220. 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 i3-3220.
Name:	Intel Core i3-3220
Family:	Intel Core i3
CPU group:	Intel Core i 3000
Architecture:	Ivy Bridge S
Segment:	Desktop / Server
Generation:	3
Predecessor:	--
Successor:	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i3-3220 has 2 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i3-3220 is 3.30 GHz. The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads:	2 / 4
Core architecture:	normal
Cores:	2x

Hyperthreading / SMT:	Yes
Overclocking:	No
Frequency:	3.30 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	--
Turbo Frequency (2 Cores):	--

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 i3-3220 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i3-3220 uses the Intel HD Graphics 2500, which has 48 texture shaders and 6 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name:	Intel HD Graphics 2500
GPU frequency:	0.65 GHz
GPU (Turbo):	1.05 GHz
Compute units:	6
Shader:	48
Max. GPU Memory:	2 GB

Max. displays:	3
Generation:	7
Direct X:	11.0
Technology:	22 nm
Release date:	Q2/2012

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):	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit):	No
h264:	Decode / Encode
VP8:	No
VP9:	No

AV1:	No
AVC:	Decode / Encode
VC-1:	Decode
JPEG:	Decode

Memory type:	Memory bandwidth:
Memory & PCIe The processor can use up to 32 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 25.6 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

DDR3-1600	25.6 GB/s
Max. Memory:	32 GB
Memory channels:	2 (Dual Channel)
ECC:	No
PCIe:	2.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth:	8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 55 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):	55 W
TDP (PL2):	--
TDP up:	--
TDP down:	--
Tjunction max.:	--

Technical details

The Intel Core i3-3220 is made in 22 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 3.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology:	22 nm
Chip design:	Monolithic
Socket:	LGA 1155
L2-Cache:	--
L3-Cache:	3.00 MB
AES-NI:	Yes
Operating systems:	Windows 10, Linux

Virtualization:	VT-x, VT-x EPT
Instruction set (ISA):	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions:	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
Release date:	Q3/2012
Release price:	117 $
Part Number:	--
Documents:	Technical data sheet

Intel Core i3-3220
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the Intel Core i3-3220 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.

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.


	Intel Core i5-2300 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	651
	Intel Core i5-680 2C 4T @ 3.86 GHz	651
	Intel Core i5-2500T 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	650
	Intel Core i3-3220 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	648
	Intel Core i3-3225 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	648
	Intel Xeon E7-4880 v2 15C 30T @ 3.10 GHz	648
	MediaTek Kompanio 820 8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz	647

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.


	HiSilicon Kirin 710 8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz	1384
	Intel Core i3-4100M 2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	1384
	Intel Core i5-5250U 2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	1378
	Intel Core i3-3220 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	1376
	Intel Core i5-8200Y 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	1376
	Intel Core i3-3225 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	1376
	Intel Core i7-3687U 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	1376

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 Pentium G3220 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	561
	Intel Xeon Bronze 3106 8C 8T @ 1.70 GHz	561
	Intel Core i5-2540M 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	559
	Intel Core i3-3220 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	558
	Intel Core i3-3225 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	558
	Intel Core i5-2500T 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	557
	AMD Ryzen Embedded V1500B 4C 8T @ 2.20 GHz	557

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.


	HiSilicon Kirin 710 8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz	1206
	Intel Core i3-2130 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	1197
	Intel Core i3-5005U 2C 4T @ 2.00 GHz	1197
	Intel Core i3-3220 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	1195
	Intel Core i3-3225 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	1195
	Intel Core i7-2640M 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	1184
	Intel Pentium Silver J5005 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	1183

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.


	Intel Pentium G4560 2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	259
	Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 8C 16T @ 3.00 GHz	259
	Intel Xeon E5-2697 v4 18C 36T @ 3.60 GHz	257
	Intel Core i3-3220 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	254
	AMD A12-9800 4C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	254
	Intel Celeron N5105 4C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	254
	Intel Core i5-2400 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	253

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.


	AMD FX-9830P 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	641
	Intel Core i5-8200Y 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	641
	Intel Core i5-8310Y 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	641
	Intel Core i3-3220 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	639
	Intel Celeron J4105 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	634
	Intel Core i5-8210Y 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	632
	Intel Core i7-5600U 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	632

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.


	Intel Celeron G1610 Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge GT1) @ 1.05 GHz	101
	Intel Pentium G2010 Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge GT1) @ 1.05 GHz	101
	Intel Pentium G2020 Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge GT1) @ 1.05 GHz	101
	Intel Core i3-3220 Intel HD Graphics 2500 @ 1.05 GHz	101
	MediaTek Helio P70 ARM Mali-G72 MP3 @ 0.90 GHz	100
	UNISOC T616 ARM Mali-G57 MP1 @ 0.75 GHz	96
	Intel Pentium 2117U Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge GT1) @ 1.00 GHz	96

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 Celeron J3455 4C 4T @ 2.20 GHz	2255
	AMD Phenom II X2 521 2C 2T @ 3.50 GHz	2253
	AMD Athlon II X4 638 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	2248
	Intel Core i3-3220 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	2246
	Intel Core i3-3225 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	2246
	AMD Phenom II X4 840T 4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	2246
	Intel Celeron N6211 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	2245

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.


	Intel Core i5-7200U 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	287
	Intel Core i3-3240 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	286
	Intel Core i7-6500U 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	282
	Intel Core i3-3220 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	279
	Intel Core i5-6300U 2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	272
	Intel Xeon E5450 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	271
	Intel Core i3-2120 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	268

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.


	Intel Core i5-4210M 2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	831
	AMD Ryzen 3 3250U 2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	827
	AMD A10-6800K 4C 4T @ 4.10 GHz	813
	Intel Core i3-3220 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	812
	Intel Core i3-2130 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	811
	Intel Core i5-6300U 2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	811
	Intel Core i5-4200M 2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	809

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.


	Intel Core i5-4258U 2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	116
	Intel Core i5-6198DU 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	116
	Intel Core i7-4785T 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	116
	Intel Core i3-3220 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	115
	Intel Core i3-6167U 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	115
	Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 14C 28T @ 3.00 GHz	115
	Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 10C 20T @ 3.00 GHz	115

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 Core i3-4330T 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	297
	Intel Celeron J4125 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	296
	Intel Xeon E3-1220L v3 4C 8T @ 1.50 GHz	296
	Intel Core i3-3220 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	295
	AMD Athlon II X4 860K 4C 4T @ 4.00 GHz	295
	Intel Core i3-6167U 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	295
	Intel Core i3-3225 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	295

Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,439 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,412 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,700 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,649 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
648 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
596 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
1,954 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,340 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
225 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
728 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,105 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,100 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
942 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
938 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
825 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
836 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

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