The Intel Core i3-12300 Review: Quad-Core Alder Lake Shines
by Gavin Bonshor on March 3, 2022 8:30 AM ESTCPU Benchmark Performance: Legacy and Web
In order to gather data to compare with older benchmarks, we are still keeping a number of tests under our ‘legacy’ section. This includes all the former major versions of CineBench (R15, R11.5, R10) as well as x264 HD 3.0 and the first very naïve version of 3DPM v2.1. We won’t be transferring the data over from the old testing into Bench, otherwise it would be populated with 200 CPUs with only one data point, so it will fill up as we test more CPUs like the others.
The other section here is our web tests.
For the Core i3-12300, we are running DDR5 memory at the following settings:
- DDR5-4800(B) CL40
Legacy
As we've seen throughout our testing, the Core i3-12300 does well in single-threaded performance. However, it does lack the grunt in multi-threaded applications compared with chips that feature more cores and threads.
Web
In our web-based benchmarks, the Core i3-12300 performs brilliantly due to the higher IPC performance of Intel's Golden Cove P-cores on Alder Lake.
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mode_13h - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
> The -E/TE are BGA variantsAccording to Intel, they're the same FCLGA1700 package as the CPU reviewed in this article.
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/compar...
However, whether you can get them in Qty. 1 and whether any retail motherboards have validated ECC support for them is another matter.
mode_13h - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
> Are there different levels of ECC for DDR5?No. All DDR5 has on-die ECC, but that's just a band-aid to cover other shortcuts made by DDR5 (increased density, long-refresh) and probably won't deliver a net reliability improvement.
The two variations of ECC currently supported by Intel are traditional out-of-band ECC, which requires special DIMMs and motherboards, or in-band ECC that should work with any DIMMs but at a slight performance penalty. From what I've seen, only certain Elkhart Lake CPUs so far support in-band ECC.
fmyhr - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
Thank you! Very much appreciate the info. First I'd heard of in-band ECC.SunMaster - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
When it comes to excelling in single thread applications, which applications are we really talking about in 2022 ? MS-DOS emulators and CPU-tests limited to 1 thread?badger2k - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
Comments like these are a really easy way to show that you have no knowledge of how computer programs work.SunMaster - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
Really. So how with an example where it matters?SunMaster - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
I'm not talking about where single threaded software exists, because that's just about everywhere. I'm wondering which singlethreaded applications is it possible to excel in, because they actually exist and their performance actually matter.TheinsanegamerN - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
Games. Multithreaded games still have a single primary rendering thread, or other tasks such as ai, that cannot be made parallel easily or at all, hence why alder lake wins at gaming benchmarks, even multithreaded onesmagreen - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
OCR of a long document in Adobe Acrobat. It’s infuriating that it’s still single threaded in 2022 even in the pro version, when it’s such an obviously parallelizable task. But it is what it is.CiccioB - Friday, March 4, 2022 - link
I wonder if you are serous or just trolling...If you know "single threaded software exists, because that's just about everywhere. I'm wondering which singlethreaded applications is it possible to excel in, because they actually exist and their performance actually matter."
you may just think that you excel in all those mono tasking application that require times to be completed.
I do not think it is that difficult to understand, so I just think you are just acting as a troll.