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)
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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".