Intel Core i5-10300H vs Intel Core i3-12100F

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i3 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3019 points

5223 points

73% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4851 points

8443 points

74% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2479 points

4270 points

72% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2378 points

4098 points

72% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2972 points

4038 points

35% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

63.60 points

106.71 points

67% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4001 points

7143 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1338 points

2123 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4049 points

7384 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1380 points

2218 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.50 GHz

3.3 GHz

32% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

4.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

28% slightly lower TDP

58 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

320 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

537th of 1,089

323rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5

12th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-10300H vs Core i3-12100F specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-12100F beats the Core i5-10300H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10300H in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-12100F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10300H. Despite this, the Core i5-10300H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-10300H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-12100F CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-10300H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.