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 - Tuesday, March 8, 2022 - link
> The Apple Lisa had ECC. That was 1983 tech.Integrated circuit fabrication technology changes and no doubt DRAM chip design, along with it. Maybe memory errors were relatively more common, in the memory available at the time, and Lisa surely needed a lot of it.
mode_13h - Tuesday, March 8, 2022 - link
The problem with ECC is that it adds cost. So, if merely adequate stability can be delivered without it, then they're not going to require it.Oxford Guy - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
JEDEC has been baffling for quite some time now. No ECC mandate yet ultra-high latency with low clocks in the name of stability.Cooe - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
The Ryzen 3 5300G APU has literally HALF the amount of L3 cache as other Zen 3 CPU's, so trying to use that part to claim AMD couldn't be make a competitive quad core CPU right now if they needed to based on just that data alone is pretty god-tier idiotic. I expect better of this site.TheinsanegamerN - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
Ok, so where is the Ryzen quad core with all that cache?lmcd - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link
Disabled with the cores that had the cache. Oh wait!Targon - Friday, March 4, 2022 - link
AMD went from 4 core per CCX with the Zen2 generation to 8 core per CCD in the Zen3 generation. As a result, AMD doesn't have non-APU chips with only 4 cores. Monolithic design means AMD isn't using chiplets for that 5300G. If you are limited by fab capacity, do you divert a lot of capacity for low-margin and low end products?Zen4 may switch things up a bit, or, AMD could potentially put low end Zen4 on 7nm since having the best efficiency and performance won't be needed for the low end products.
Calin - Friday, March 4, 2022 - link
AMD couldn't make a competitive 4-core Zen3 CPU at the price Intel is selling their latest generation. Comparisons with cheaper or more expensive processors is useful only to a point...And making a true comparison (i.e. platform costs) is a quagmire of "if this, if that, if ...".
Not to mention that - at least for a while - the prices will be volatile, so no comparison based on "price bracket" will be long-lived.
Targon - Friday, March 4, 2022 - link
When Zen3 chiplets are based around 8 cores per CCD, the only quad-core chips will be monolithic APUs. With any luck, AMD will relegate Ryzen 3 CPUs to 7nm while Ryzen 5, 7, and 9 will be on 5nm.lmcd - Friday, March 4, 2022 - link
7 and 5 don't necessarily share the same libraries and quirks. That's a lot of engineering resources for questionable gain. I don't disagree that it'd be nice but I don't think it's likely.