The Intel Core i3-12300 Review: Quad-Core Alder Lake Shines
by Gavin Bonshor on March 3, 2022 8:30 AM ESTCPU Benchmark Performance: Simulation And Rendering
Simulation and Science have a lot of overlap in the benchmarking world, however for this distinction we’re separating into two segments mostly based on the utility of the resulting data. The benchmarks that fall under Science have a distinct use for the data they output – in our Simulation section, these act more like synthetics but at some level are still trying to simulate a given environment.
For the Core i3-12300, we are running DDR5 memory at the following settings:
- DDR5-4800(B) CL40
Simulation
In tests that can utilize the higher IPC and lower core count, the Alder Lake i3 reigns supreme. The Core i3-12300 does struggle though in the tests that can really make use of a larger number of cores/threads.
Rendering
It's clear that the Core i3-12300 doesn't perform well in high core and thread situations such as rendering, although single-threaded performance is superb due to the Golden Cove-based P-cores.
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Calin - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
Last page:"Intel has rated the i3-12300 at base frequencies with a TDP of 60 W and a 69 W TDP when at turbo clock speeds." - the TDP was mentioned in the first page as 89W (basically a tie to the 88W of AMD).
"Due to AMD's Zen architectures, Intel has been on the ropes in both performance and value for a while." - Intel suffered a lot from their inability to improve their lithography, they could have been competitive in cost, performance and power use with better lithography
" One of AMD's most cost-effective processors remains the Ryzen 5 5600X, with six cores, eight threads" - it has 12 threads.
All in all, AMD still make sense in an "upgrade only the processor" scenario - though that could be a niche within a niche. And, apparently, the greatest competition the i3-12300 with DDR5 has is from the i3-12300 with DDR4 (or maybe an i5 with DDR4).
Wereweeb - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
Intel's dies are massive and entirely fabbed in Intel 7. They're only competing in cost because Intel is deliberately choosing to sacrifice their famous "Intel margins" to get back into the market.Failing to do that might've meant inactive fabs, and if fabs aren't making money they're losing money (Since new fabs are so expensive and there's a definite time frame where they can recuperate the investments into cutting edge tooling, after which wafer prices will tend to fall)
This is Intel at it's most desperate yet, and I'm loving it.
Calin - Friday, March 4, 2022 - link
Intel still reports very high "Gross Margins". How much other activities (cough OEM bribes cough) eat into this might not be truly evident.As for "Failing to do that might've meant inactive fabs, and if fabs aren't making money they're losing money"...
AMD simply can not produce enough - so if Intel stopped fabrication of those inferior processors (of the last at least couple of years), prices would have exploded.
While I don't condone the US government saving banks involved in the sub-prime mortgage crisis, at this moment at least Intel truly is too big to fail.
Lbibass - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
In my opinion, running both of these CPUs with JDEC standard memory is an incredibly stupid idea that makes this review significantly less useful. DDR4 3600cl18 or 3200cl16 are super affordable. DDR5 is not affordable right now, but purchasing DDR5 with similar latencies (timing in terms of ns, not just CAS latency) would result in a much more effective review.TheinsanegamerN - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
So where is this ddr5 that has equivalent latency? Also no matter which ddr4 kit is used the peanut gallery will complain it isn’t the RIGHT kitAlB80 - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
Imho, running both of these CPUs with XMP profile is an incredibly stupid idea for review.CPU, MB and stick makers give guarantee only for JEDEC profiles.
Wereweeb - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
If you mean warranty, how are they going to prove that you were running it with XMP on?AlB80 - Saturday, March 5, 2022 - link
Guarantee of stable operation. XMP is always OC.Also all XMP sticks have very low JEDEC profiles.
Oxford Guy - Sunday, March 6, 2022 - link
If JEDEC’s actual mission is stability, ECC should have been required for many many years now.Oxford Guy - Sunday, March 6, 2022 - link
The Apple Lisa bad ECC. That was 1983 tech. I am less than impressed with jEDEC and its alleged concern with stability.