Intel Core i5-12400F vs Intel Core i3-2100

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Price

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$ 179.99
$ 49.00
$ 130.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7069 points
456% significantly better overall score
1270 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9793 points
302% significantly better gaming score
2433 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6211 points
549% significantly better multitasking score
956 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6010 points
554% significantly better heavy workload score
918 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.61 points
950% significantly higher Blender score
15.20 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8804 points
789% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
990 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2154 points
353% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
475 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9125 points
863% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
947 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2218 points
376% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
465 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
3.1 GHz
24% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
25% slightly more pcie lanes
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

194th of 1,099
886th of 1,099

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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