What happens when you fire up the fastest quad-core processor ever? Well, several things. The first is that you surprise the world and give pleasurable satisfaction to those who have little money, the second is that you leave your rival in embarrassment and the third is that you rejoice if he does not even reach you. with overclock. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the i3-12100F and its performance.
Already in 2022, thinking of a quad-core processor is like looking back. The problem is, when Intel pulls a bomb like this out of its pocket… AMD doesn’t have much to do until it hits Zen 4 to compete. We’re not going to praise Intel’s architecture, but we have to admit that it has positioned performance and price products where AMD cannot even compete. i3-12100F
Core i3-12100F crushes all 4-core AMD processors
What makes this processor so special? We start from a price of only $ 97 as MSRP and with that what Intel will give us in exchange is a processor of 4 cores and 8 wires which are made for 10 nm (now Intel 7) based on the Alder Lake architecture with the core Golden Cove microarchitecture.
Regarding the frequencies we will have a base of 3.3 GHz while in Boost we will 4.3 GHz, which doesn’t seem surprising, but …
Its consumption is only 58 watts of PBP, a figure which increases with Maximum Turbo Power up to 89 watts.
Having already clear that we have in hand, overclock it LUCKY_NOOB
A beast that has no rival even with LN2
The Y-Cruncher data has a lot to tell us, since it literally crushes every Ryzen 3, but it’s also the seventh-gen i7 and even the occasional Xeon. Logically, it competes for the same cores and threads where until now the 5300G reigned with an overclock of 5.6 GHz under liquid nitrogen.
The difference between the two is such that there is directly no competition, it is another different league in which the i3-12100F is playing and also with serial and wireless heatsink. With 44 seconds and 201 milliseconds it’s been more than 8 seconds that he endorsed a Ryzen 3 5300G with said overclock. Or what is the same, is a 18% faster.
How is AMD going to compete with such an upscale processor? Today it cannot, it does not have and will not have 3D V-Cache processors of this range for a simple price and Zen 4 is still a long way off. What is clear is that Intel’s move has been very smart and by the time AMD’s new architecture arrives, the blue team will have the successor to the current one ready and about to go. : Rapaces Lake, which promises an increase in performance to a lesser extent than the jump currently observed.
Will Zen 4 be enough to equalize the competition in all ranges? We will see.
