Intel Core i5-12400F vs Intel Core i3-1115G4

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i3 2 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

7069 points
286% significantly better overall score
1829 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9794 points
164% significantly better gaming score
3698 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6210 points
360% significantly better multitasking score
1348 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6009 points
364% significantly better heavy workload score
1293 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.61 points
444% significantly higher Blender score
29.31 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

12380 points
281% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
3244 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8804 points
201% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2919 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2154 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1506 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9125 points
196% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3077 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2218 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1579 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
200% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
200% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
3.00 GHz
19% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
7% slightly higher turbo speed
4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
28 W
132% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
64 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB
150% significantly more L1 cache
192 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

18 MiB
200% significantly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

188th of 1,089
755th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5
11th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2020 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Core i5-12400F vs Core i3-1115G4 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12400F is faster than the Core i3-1115G4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-1115G4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12400F has significantly more cores than the Core i3-1115G4. Indeed, the Core i5-12400F has 6 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-1115G4. It also has more threads than the Core i3-1115G4. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-1115G4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400F. Despite this, the Core i5-12400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-1115G4 outputs less heat than Core i5-12400F thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-12400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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