The Intel Core i3-12300 Review: Quad-Core Alder Lake Shines
by Gavin Bonshor on March 3, 2022 8:30 AM ESTCPU Benchmark Performance: Power, Office, and Science
Our previous set of ‘office’ benchmarks have often been a mix of science and synthetics, so this time we wanted to keep our office section purely on real-world performance.
For the Core i3-12300, we are running DDR5 memory at the following settings:
- DDR5-4800(B) CL40
Power
As expected from a 4C/8T processor, the Core i3-12300 has a lower power draw than the 6C/12T and 8C/16T models.
Office
Compared to previous generations of Intel's architecture, Alder Lake (Core i3-12300) is above everything else in regards to variable/lightly-threaded loads.
Science
In any scenario where AVX-based workloads or in multi-core and multi-threaded applications, the Core i3-12300 lags behind the chips with higher core and thread count.
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TheinsanegamerN - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
You could read the review and look at the benchmarks, that may helpSunMaster - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
Todays games are nowhere near single threaded, even though there is a main thread. The reason alder lake does well is because it has several/many cores/threads clocked high performing well. both xbox and playstation have had multicore amds for a decade (since 2006 for PS, 2013 for xbox), which forced developers to focus on weaker threads rather than the old fashioned monolithic design.SunMaster - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
Can't edit my post it seems, but by multicore AMDS I meant 8 core.GeoffreyA - Tuesday, March 8, 2022 - link
I would say, ST is really the building block of multi-threading. Get that single brick strong, and the entire wall will be strong.mode_13h - Wednesday, March 9, 2022 - link
Ah, but it's not that simple. You need a good interconnect, cache, memory system, and clock/power-management.For instance, just look an Ampere Altra. Even though its single-thread performance is somewhat lacking, it shines at MT.
GeoffreyA - Wednesday, March 9, 2022 - link
Indeed, the mortar and bond style are just as important as the brick.mirancar - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
most games have some sort of single thread bottleneckalso web browser performance is highly affected by the single thread performance
this is what most people do 99% of time on their computers, almost nobody is "rendering"
more cores help up to a certain point, then it becomes useless. anything above 6C12T is usually completelly useless. single thread perf matters much more than 16 core 32 thread benchmark
Calin - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
Office applications. Legacy software. Interpreted code (as was the Visual Basic for Applications). Compilation (C or C++) of a single file.There are many places where "single-core" performance counts, as - if your typical operation lasts only a few seconds you might not really care to optimize (and going parallel might not be easy, and might not even be possible for some problems).
jcb2121 - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
ZwiftWereweeb - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
Virtually every application. Google "Amdahl's Law".