Intel’s New Low-End Processors Outperform AMD

Putting together an i3-based gaming computer or workstation is a lousy idea, however, not everyone who has a computer to work in the office or study uses a powerful PC. It’s often their work tool and they can’t afford more powerful hardware and that’s where processors like the Core i3 or AMD Ryzen 3 come in.

The latest i3s launched correspond to the tenth generation, so they will be the segment that will benefit the most when launching the successors to the Core 12 range, since we are talking about a jump of two generations. For the moment the i3-12100 is not for sale and we will surely see it appear with a range of motherboards with the more modest chipsets of the Intel 600 series.

Its release date? In early 2022, so after a long time, the input processor lineup will be on the move again.

I3-12100 Specifications

As can be seen in the screenshot above these lines, we are faced with a variant of the Intel Core 12 “H0This differs from the other models in that they do not have the E-Cores, but with an additional difference compared to the i5 and that is that two of the P-Cores are inactive, remaining in 4 cores and 8 execution threads. By the way, we must also underline how the L3 cache of the Alder Lake architecture, which serves as LLC and gives consistency to all the cores with respect to memory, has one size or another depending on the number of clients. , since compared to the i5 it has been reduced from 18 to 12 MB.

In the specifications, we don’t have any information about the base clock speed, however, we do know that its TDP in PL1 mode is 60W and in PL2 mode, when the cores are put in Turbo, it is 77 W. By extrapolating the data, it appears that the Turbo will be at 4.3 GHz, although the base clock speed is unknown at this time.

This is your performance

If previously Intel had been criticized for not providing the low end with a new processor, the same is true with AMD, since its Ryzen 3 is still based on Zen 2. And let’s not forget that Lisa Su’s company made the decision that any quad core CPU should be Zen 2, which at first gives a huge advantage to i3 CPUs based on Alder Lake architecture like the i3-12100. In any case, we cannot forget that AMD to launch new low-end processors in the coming weeks. This comparison will therefore be obsolete in a short time.

Well, as the CPU is already finished they decided to test it by mounting it on an ASRock Z690 Steel Legend card, an RTX 3060 Ti and 16 GB DDR-3200 in dual channel and they compared it to an AMD Ryzen 3 3300X with the same memory and graphics card configuration, as well as a Ryzen 3 3100, with which it will surely compete on price.

And what were the results? Well, as expected, the new Intel processor outperforms the current Ryzen 3 in all benchmarks, in short:

• At PCMark the i3-12100 get results one 15% more compared to the more powerful Ryzen 3.
• The second benchmark where it was tested is in R23 cinema bench where this time the differential is 26% in multihilo and 27% in single wire test.
• At V-Ray gets 1,000 points more than AMD’s 3300 X, an increase over 20%.
• Puget bench it is a performance test that has become a benchmark for those who work with Adobe applications on a daily basis. This is where there is the biggest difference with a 50% advantage for the i3-12100.
• At Counter Strike: Global Offensive, the most popular game on Steam right now, Intel’s new i3 is releasing a 8.5% more than its AMD competitors.
• In the benchmark integrated in Cyberpunk 2077We will see how at 1080P ultra and without active DLSS the three processors are linked, but it reaches 20 FPS more than the most powerful Ryzen if we activate DLSS and it is the only processor to exceed 100 FPS if we also activate the Ray Tracing.

Finally we have its temperature, which will remain much colder than its AMD equivalents if we pay attention to what we can observe in the results of AIDA64, we therefore also show that they are colder, since they require less watts to operate. full capacity.