i3-12100F vs Pentium III 1400S

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Primary details

Comparing Pentium III 1400S and Core i3-12100F processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated854
Place by popularitynot in top-1006
Market segmentDesktop processorDesktop processor
Power efficiencyno data14.50
Architecture codenameTualatin (2000−2002)Alder Lake-S (2022)
Release dateJanuary 2002 (22 years ago)January 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium III 1400S and Core i3-12100F 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 cores1 (Single-Core)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads18
Base clock speedno data3.3 GHz
Boost clock speed1.4 GHz4.3 GHz
L1 cache8 KB80K (per core)
L2 cache512 KB1.25 MB (per core)
L3 cache0 KB12 MB (shared)
Chip lithography130 nmIntel 7 nm
Die size80 mm2163 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data100 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)69 °Cno data
Number of transistors44 millionno data
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Pentium III 1400S and Core i3-12100F 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 configuration11
Socket370FCLGA1700
Power consumption (TDP)32 Watt58 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium III 1400S and Core i3-12100F. 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

Pentium III 1400S and Core i3-12100F 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 Pentium III 1400S and Core i3-12100F are enumerated here.

VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium III 1400S and Core i3-12100F. 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 Pentium III 1400S and Core i3-12100F.

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.

Pentium III 1400S 194
i3-12100F 14108
+7172%

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 1 4
Threads 1 8
Power consumption (TDP) 32 Watt 58 Watt

Pentium III 1400S has 81.3% lower power consumption.

i3-12100F, on the other hand, has 300% more physical cores and 700% more threads.

We couldn't decide between Pentium III 1400S and Core i3-12100F. We've got no test results to judge.


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