holy crap a Kew unlocked processor as an
I3 this is exciting but that's not all
it also comes with hyperthreading that's right two cores four threads one I3
7350k this launch from Intel may be a
bold response to the looming threat that is AMD's ryzen release
or maybe it's simply a followup to the Pentium g3258 anniversary edition an
overclockable dual core that lacked hyperthreading presenting some pretty
serious issues in some Modern games that wouldn't even launch unless they
detected four processor threads like Far Cry 4 for example which does work with
the 7350k so it's a category killer then
well maybe not the g3258 was $75 and the
I3 7350k is
$180 and hyperthreads are still not real
cores which you can learn more about up here but for now let's see how worth it
the first unlocked core I3 really is
okay to start us off there's the specs it's got two cores and four threads like
I mentioned earlier but it also has 4 megabytes of cache so it's exactly half
of a Cory 7 7700k in every way thus far
but the story changes when you look at clock speed a 7700k boost to 4.5 GHz a
7350k drops that down but not by much
just to 4.2 GHz and that's also not the whole story if someone buys a K series
I3 I fully expect and hope that they
plan to overclock it that's the whole point so anyways I got mine up to 5 GHz
easily with 1.4 volts but with some tuning I'd expect that you'd be able to
drop that down to like 1.35 volts or maybe even lower I stress tested it for
a long time and it was Rock Solid I'm
not the only one either people are getting 5 gz on this chip all over the
Internet it's an exciting time to be an I3 like before though you'll need an
overclockable chipset so Zed series if
you want to learn more about the Zed 270 motherboards the updated on board
graphics and the finer details of Intel's latest platform check out this
video up here but okay enough of that let's talk about performance this is not
an easy answer I put our 7350k on the
bench along with an ASUS Rog z270 Maximus 9 code 16 gigs of gskill ddr4
RAM a Corsair h100 GTX V2 extreme and a
Founders Edition NVIDIA GTX 1080 just to
remove potential GPU bottlenecks in games on the same setup I also o ran a
core i57400 the 7400 it's a true quad core
with 4 total threads that cost $182 just $2 more than the
7350k to do this we used the 7700k and
adjusted hyperthreading settings and multiplier settings to get pretty much
equivalent performance it works trust me
and if you don't believe it check out this video remember no K so no
overclocking it's not an option for most people the first comparison that I want
to do between our 7400 and our 7350k is
cinebench the 7350k has a way higher
clock speed at 5 GHz versus 3.5 so it
should crush in single core performance and it did so all is well except that it
also crushed in multi-threaded those Speedy little hyperthreaded cores not
only crushed in cine bench but also pull the victory in our seven zip test and
our image editing through ASUS Rog
realbench that's 4 to zero so far but
before you go out and spend your $182 on
an I3 7350k and two cans of pop there is
also video encoding to consider the i57400 did win the real bench en coding
tests but not by much then there's
gaming ah man there is no difference
between either of these processors or the top-of-the line 7700 k when testing
DSX mankind divided so I guess I can go
ahead and never test that when comparing CPUs ever again so anyways moving on in
GTA 5 rise of the Tomb Raider and Ashes of the singularity average performance
was very similar there were some
differences in minimums with the 7350k falling behind although it was a little
inconsistent and not that major either way so in conclusion the Intel I3 7350k
costs more than we feel like it should
but I was also expecting it to not be that great considering quad cores have
been considered the minimum for gaming for quite some time now but it destroyed
so that's pretty cool other things to consider could be direct X12 and Vulcan
but I don't expect those to have performance impacts and actual games for
quite some time now and then there's ryzen if you're looking to upgrade your
rig anytime time soon you should probably wait for ryzen let's all hope
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