The Intel Core i3-12300 Review: Quad-Core Alder Lake Shines
by Gavin Bonshor on March 3, 2022 8:30 AM ESTGaming Performance: 1080p
While a quad core processor is not going to be the first choice for gaming these days (especially when consoles have had 8 cores for the past two generations), 4 Golden Cove P cores still put up enough of a fight that the CPU is never too much of a limiting factor. Here we never drop below a 60fps average on any game.
All of our game testing results, including other resolutions, can be found in our benchmark database: www.anandtech.com/bench. All gaming tests were with an RTX 2080 Ti.
For the Core i3-12300, we are running DDR5 memory at the following settings:
- DDR5-4800(B) CL40
Civilization VI
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Final Fantasy 14
Final Fantasy 15
World of Tanks
Borderlands 3
Far Cry 5
Gears Tactics
Grand Theft Auto V
Red Dead Redemption 2
Strange Brigade (DirectX 12)
Strange Brigade (Vulcan)
Facebook
Twitter
RSS
140 Comments
View All Comments
Ryan Smith - Friday, March 4, 2022 - link
"No iGPU benchmarks, why?"Frankly, we haven't been doing iGPU benchmarks for desktop processors for a while. It's been a shortcut to get CPU reviews done on time.
That needs to (and will be) changing. But right now if we benchmarked the i3-12300's iGPU, we wouldn't have sufficient data to compare it to anyhow.
nandnandnand - Sunday, March 6, 2022 - link
Comparing it to the Vega 6 in the 5300G should get the point across: UHD 730 is weak.kkilobyte - Sunday, March 6, 2022 - link
Really? I've checked the archives in the 'CPU' section of anandtech. The last extensive review of an AMD Desktop CPU seems to be the 5300G/5600G/5700G... And it featured two pages of iGPU tests... And the first page of the same review was 'Power Consumption'.So your 'shortcuts' seem to be a bit... Selective, I'd say.
DannyH246 - Sunday, March 6, 2022 - link
Intel cannot be shown in ANY bad light.paulwalker - Tuesday, April 5, 2022 - link
Lovely pictures, awesome these are looking so funny interesting but professional and artistic pics.<a href="https://starboardgroup.com/team/">andrew levy starboard</a>
Spunjji - Monday, March 7, 2022 - link
It's bad. How bad? Take Vega 6, divide by two (or three depending on application).MDD1963 - Monday, April 25, 2022 - link
Suspect your desired iGPU performance figures of 12300's performance would still best those of the 5900X and 5950X....? :)fmyhr - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
What's the status of ECC RAM support for Alder Lake CPUs? Does DDR5 support imply ECC support? Are there different levels of ECC for DDR5? Intel Ark is no help. Thanks for any hints.mode_13h - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
Yes, according to ark.intel.com, ECC support is *not* listed for this or its sibling. They *do* list ECC support for the "E" and "TE" variants, but I don't know if you'll be able to source those easily, or how you'll find motherboard compatibility.Basically, plan on using an E-series Xeon, if you want ECC on Alder Lake.
Slash3 - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
The -E/TE are BGA variants for embedded applications. It will need to be a Xeon.