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General information Core i9-12900 Core i3-8300
Launched Q1 2022 Q2 2018
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA1700 FCLGA1151-2
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Core i3
Core Family Name Alder Lake Coffee Lake
Clock 2.4 GHz 35.1 % 3.7 GHz 0 %
Cores 16 0 % 4 75 %
Threads 24 0 % 4 83.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 0 % 62 W 4.6 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 64 GB 50 %
Lithography 10 nm 28.6 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 48 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 1.25 MB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 30 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Integrated GPU Intel UHD Graphics 770 Intel UHD Graphics 630
Performance Core i9-12900 Core i3-8300
Overall Score 68642 0 % 44942 34.5 %
Future Proof 86 % 0 % 65 % 24.4 %
Benchmark Score 22201 0 % 4080 81.6 %
Single Thread Score 4017.6 0 % 2242.9 44.2 %
Encrypting Data 23876.8 MB/s 0 % 1890.9 MB/s 92.1 %
Compressing Data 405.8 MB/s 0 % 81.5 MB/s 79.9 %
String objects sorting 44978.5 thousand/s 0 % 10225 thousand/s 77.3 %
Prime numbers generation 124.2 millions/s 0 % 35.8 millions/s 71.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 128420 millions/s 0 % 16329.3 millions/s 87.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 92167 millions/s 0 % 14253.1 millions/s 84.5 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-12900, Core i3-8300.

Average frames per second Core i9-12900 Core i3-8300
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 158.6 FPS 88.1 FPS
High settings 253.7 FPS 141.0 FPS
Medium settings 317.2 FPS 176.3 FPS
Low settings 396.5 FPS 220.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 44.4 %

Grand Theft Auto V Frames per second

Comparison of FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) in game 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Grand Theft Auto V.

Grand Theft Auto V Core i9-12900 Core i3-8300
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 171.5 FPS 129.7 FPS
High settings 274.4 FPS 207.5 FPS
Medium settings 342.9 FPS 259.4 FPS
Low settings 428.7 FPS 324.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 24.4 %
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