Intel® Core™ i3-12100 Desktop Processor 12M Cache, up to 4.30 GHz

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Intel® Core™ i3-12100 Desktop Processor 12M Cache, up to 4.30 GHz

Intel® Core™ i3-12100 Desktop Processor 12M Cache, up to 4.30 GHz

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Arguably the most CPU demanding game in our list is Cyberpunk 2077 and the Core i3-12100F was feeling the pressure a little, though overall performance was excellent, basically matching the R5 3600 and R7 3700X. For testing the Core i3-12100F we're using the MSI B660M Mortar Wi-Fi DDR4 with 32GB of dual-rank, dual-channel DDR4-3200 CL14 memory. This is the same memory we use for all our DDR4 testing and it's typically faster than single-rank DDR4-3800 CL18 memory in terms of performance. The decompression performance is a lot less impressive as the 12100F is barely any faster than the 10100F and is now 42% slower than the Ryzen 5 3600.

Here's a look a the 10 game average data and overall we think it's fair to say Intel's latest quad-core made out very well in many of today's games, especially given we were often using slightly dialed down quality settings at 1080p with a Radeon RX 6900 XT.

Idle States

Due to the strong single core performance of the 12100F, we see that it scores very well with 189 pts making it just 6% slower than the 5600X and 12400, but also 16% faster than the 11600K and 22% faster than the 10600K. But is also means when more CPU limited in todays games, the 12100F is often comparable to parts such as the Ryzen 7 3700X and Core i5-10600K, which is remarkable. What this means is, for most gamers who will almost always be more GPU limited, the 12100F is going to fair even better. Perhaps more important that that, the 12100F was just 6% slower than the 10600K, 10% slower than the 11600K and 12% slower than the 12400F. It's probably worth noting that it was 26% faster than the R5 3600, so overall great performance from this Core i3.

The 12100F is also handy for those needing to get some Photoshop work done as the performance is comparable to that of the 11600K, 3700X and 10700K, some pretty high-end CPUs there in comparison. It was also 37% faster than the 10100F, an impressive jump over the previous-gen Core i3 part.

Max # of PCI Express Lanes

Intel processor numbers are not a measure of performance. Processor numbers differentiate features within each processor family, not across different processor families. See http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/processor-numbers.html for details. The IPC of Alder Lake is so strong that just 4 P-cores can rival the multi-core performance of a 10th generation 6-core/12-thread processor like the 10600K, and even AMD's Zen 2 based Ryzen 5 3600.



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