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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.

At a glance
Name:	Intel Core i3-3220
Family:	Intel Core i3 (205)
CPU group:	Intel Core i 3000 (31)
Architecture:	Ivy Bridge S
Technology:	22 nm
Segment:	Desktop
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):	--

NPU AI performance

The performance values of the processor's AI unit. The isolated NPU performance is specified here, the total AI performance (NPU+CPU+iGPU) can be higher. Processors with support for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors.

AI hardware:	--
AI specifications:	--
NPU + CPU + iGPU:	--

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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
Hardware Raytracing:	No
Release date:	Q2/2012

Max. displays:	3
Generation:	7
Direct X:	11.0
Technology:	22 nm
Max. GPU Memory:	2 GB
Frame Generation:	No

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
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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 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a partial load benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. In the single-core test, only the fastest CPU core is measured. The test run simulates the performance in practice.


	Intel Core i5-2310 4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	565
	Intel Pentium G3220 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	561
	Intel Xeon Bronze 3106 8C 8T @ 1.70 GHz	561
	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
	Intel Core i3-560 2C 4T @ 3.33 GHz	550

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

The practical Geekbench 6 multi-core benchmark tests the system's performance under partial load. The processor's maximum power consumption is far from being used up.


	Intel Pentium G4400 2C 2T @ 3.30 GHz	1233
	Intel Core i7-3555LE 2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	1214
	Intel Core i3-2130 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	1197
	Intel Core i3-3220 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	1195
	Intel Core i3-3225 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	1195
	Intel Pentium G3250 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	1180
	Intel Core i5-2390T 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	1171

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
	Intel Pentium G3450T 2C 2T @ 2.90 GHz	639

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.


	AMD Athlon II X4 740 4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	1391
	Intel Pentium D1508 2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	1387
	Intel Celeron G4900T 2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz	1386
	Intel Core i3-3220 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	1376
	Intel Core i3-3225 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	1376
	AMD Athlon II X4 645 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	1374
	Intel Core i5-670 2C 4T @ 3.46 GHz	1368

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 Core i5-2400 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	253
	Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2 8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz	249

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 A8-3870K 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	666
	AMD Phenom II X4 955 4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	651
	AMD Phenom II X4 940 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	649
	Intel Core i3-3220 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	639
	Intel Celeron G5905 2C 2T @ 3.50 GHz	615
	AMD A8-5600K 4C 4T @ 3.90 GHz	611
	AMD Phenom II X4 945 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	606

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 Core i3-3240 Intel HD Graphics 2500 @ 1.05 GHz	101
	Intel Core i5-3330S Intel HD Graphics 2500 @ 1.05 GHz	101
	Intel Pentium G2030T Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge GT1) @ 1.05 GHz	101
	Intel Core i3-3220 Intel HD Graphics 2500 @ 1.05 GHz	101
	Intel Celeron G530 Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1) @ 1.00 GHz	96
	Intel Pentium G2030 Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge GT1) @ 1.00 GHz	96
	Intel Pentium J2900 Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) @ 0.90 GHz	57

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 Core 2 Extreme QX6800 4C 4T @ 2.93 GHz	2258
	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 Core i5-650 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	2221

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 i5-3330 4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	308
	AMD FX-9590 8C 8T @ 5.00 GHz	291
	Intel Core i3-3240 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	286
	Intel Core i3-3220 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	279
	Intel Xeon E5450 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	271
	Intel Core i3-2120 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	268
	Intel Core i3-2100 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	253

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 i3-3240 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	835
	Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	832
	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
	AMD Phenom II X6 1065T 6C 6T @ 2.90 GHz	806
	Intel Celeron G5905 2C 2T @ 3.50 GHz	802

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 i5-4590T 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	117
	Intel Xeon E5-2630 v2 6C 12T @ 3.10 GHz	117
	Intel Core i7-4785T 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	116
	Intel Core i3-3220 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	115
	Intel Core i3-4330T 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	115
	Intel Core i3-4150T 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	115
	Intel Core i3-3225 2C 4T @ 3.30 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 i3-4150T 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	297
	Intel Core i3-4330T 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	297
	Intel Xeon E3-1220L v3 4C 8T @ 1.50 GHz	296
	Intel Core i3-3220 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	295
	Intel Core i3-3225 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	295
	AMD Athlon II X4 860K 4C 4T @ 4.00 GHz	295
	AMD A8-6500 4C 4T @ 4.10 GHz	293

Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,817 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,763 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,500 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,472 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
659 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
608 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,088 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,422 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
239 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
741 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,106 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,103 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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