Intel Core i5-12500 vs Intel Celeron G3930

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Price

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$ 272.22
$ 29.00
$ 243.22 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7166 points
521% significantly better overall score
1153 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9976 points
303% significantly better gaming score
2473 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6301 points
653% significantly better multitasking score
836 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6099 points
657% significantly better heavy workload score
805 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.78 points
850% significantly higher Blender score
17.98 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9112 points
776% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1039 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2182 points
260% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
606 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9032 points
780% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1026 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2320 points
286% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
600 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
200% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
499% significantly more threads
2

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
51 W
27% slightly lower TDP

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
100% significantly more supported memory
64 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB
274% significantly more L1 cache
128 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

18 MiB
800% significantly more L3 cache
2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

187th of 1,096
918th of 1,096

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5
Celeron G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

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