Intel Core i3-8121U vs Intel Core i5-1250P. Specifications

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  Intel Core i 8000U Intel Core i 1200P/1200U
• Family
  Intel Core i3 Intel Core i5
• Generation
  8 12
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• A-Core
  - 4x Golden Cove
• B-Core
  - 8x Gracemont
• Base Frequency
  2.2 GHz 1.7 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• CPU Cores
  2 12
• CPU Threads
  4 16
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.2 GHz 4.4 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  2.7 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (12 Cores)
  - 2.7 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  - 12.1
• Execution units
  - 80
• Generation
  - 13
• GPU Frequency
  - 400 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel Iris Xe Graphics 80 (Alder Lake)
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 1400 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 4
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 64 GB
• Release date
  - Q1/2022
• Shader
  - 640
• Technology
  - 10 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No Decode
• H.264 / AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No Decode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-1250P and Intel Core i3-8121U. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  - 64 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 SO-DIMM DDR4-3200DDR5-4800LPDDR4X-4266LPDDR5-5200
• PCIe lanes
  16 -
• PCIe version
  3.0 -
• PCIe
  - 4.0 x 28

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i3-8121U and Intel Core i5-1250P Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  - 100 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  15 W 28 W
• TDP (PL2)
  - 64 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i3-8121U and Intel Core i5-1250P, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Cannon Lake U Alder Lake U
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  - 9 MB
• L3-Cache
  4 MB 12 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2018 Q1/2022
• Socket
  BGA 1356 BGA 1744
• Technology
  10 nm 10 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d