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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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.