i5-12400F vs Celeron Dual-Core T3000

Primary details

Comparing Celeron Dual-Core T3000 and Core i5-12400F processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated619
Place by popularitynot in top-1004
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data43.60
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
SeriesIntel Celeron Dual-Coreno data
Power efficiencyno data17.89
Architecture codenamePenryn-1M (2009)Alder Lake-S (2022)
Release date1 May 2009 (15 years ago)4 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$180

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Celeron Dual-Core T3000 and Core i5-12400F basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores2 (Dual-core)6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads212
Base clock speedno data2.5 GHz
Boost clock speed1.8 GHz4.4 GHz
Bus rate800 MHzno data
L1 cache64 KB80K (per core)
L2 cache1 MB1.25 MB (per core)
L3 cacheno data18 MB (shared)
Chip lithography45 nmIntel 7 nm
Die size107 mm2163 mm2
Maximum core temperature105 °C100 °C
Number of transistors410 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Celeron Dual-Core T3000 and Core i5-12400F compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configurationno data1
SocketP (478)FCLGA1700
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt65 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron Dual-Core T3000 and Core i5-12400F. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2
AES-NI-+
AVX-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Speed Shiftno data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data2.0
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
TSX-+
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-
Deep Learning Boost-+

Security technologies

Celeron Dual-Core T3000 and Core i5-12400F technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data+
EDBno data+
Secure Keyno data+
OS Guardno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron Dual-Core T3000 and Core i5-12400F are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+
VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron Dual-Core T3000 and Core i5-12400F. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR5-4800, DDR4-3200
Maximum memory sizeno data128 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data76.8 GB/s

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Celeron Dual-Core T3000 and Core i5-12400F.

PCIe versionno data5.0 and 4.0
PCI Express lanesno data20

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.



Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Celeron Dual-Core T3000 687
i5-12400F 19526
+2742%

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Celeron Dual-Core T3000 1797
i5-12400F 8389
+367%

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Celeron Dual-Core T3000 3329
i5-12400F 40690
+1122%

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Celeron Dual-Core T3000 1593
i5-12400F 11892
+647%

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Celeron Dual-Core T3000 45.65
i5-12400F 4.08
+1019%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2009 4 January 2022
Physical cores 2 6
Threads 2 12
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 65 Watt

Celeron Dual-Core T3000 has 85.7% lower power consumption.

i5-12400F, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 12 years, and 200% more physical cores and 500% more threads.

We couldn't decide between Celeron Dual-Core T3000 and Core i5-12400F. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Celeron Dual-Core T3000 is a notebook processor while Core i5-12400F is a desktop one.


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