This is mainly because the 3300X is based on "Zen 2" while the i3-12100 uses the cutting-edge "Golden Cove" cores. Cinebench R23 is another test where the little "Alder Lake" scores big, posting a roughly 26% performance lead in the multi-threaded test, and 27% in the single-threaded test. Right off the bat, we see the i3-12100 take a significant lead over the AMD chips at PCMark, posting a roughly 15% performance lead. 16 GB of dual-channel DDR4-3600 memory and RTX 3060 Ti were used on both the Intel and AMD test-beds. The i3-12100 was tested on an ASRock Z690 Steel Legend motherboard that has DDR4 memory slots. XFastest scored an i3-12100 engineering sample, and wasted no time in comparing it with the Ryzen 3 3300X. Intel is rating the processor base power value at 60 W, with 77 W maximum turbo power. The i3-12100 gets a Gen12 Xe LP-based iGPU, while a variant of the processor, the i3-12100F, lacks integrated graphics. Each of the four cores has 1.25 MB of L2 cache, and they share 12 MB of 元 cache. The processor ticks at 3.30 GHz, with 4.30 GHz Turbo Boost 2.0 frequency. Carved out of the "Alder Lake-S" H0 silicon, this processor features 4 "Golden Cove" performance cores with HyperThreading enabling 8 logical processors, and no E-cores.
Intel's next entry-level processor for the Socket LGA1700 platform is the Core i3-12100.