Can a Dual Core Still Game?? 7350K Review
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,068 words · ~5 min read
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holy crap a Kew unlocked processor as an
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I3 this is exciting but that's not all
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it also comes with hyperthreading that's right two cores four threads one I3
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7350k this launch from Intel may be a
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bold response to the looming threat that is AMD's ryzen release
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or maybe it's simply a followup to the Pentium g3258 anniversary edition an
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overclockable dual core that lacked hyperthreading presenting some pretty
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serious issues in some Modern games that wouldn't even launch unless they
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detected four processor threads like Far Cry 4 for example which does work with
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the 7350k so it's a category killer then
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well maybe not the g3258 was $75 and the
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I3 7350k is
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$180 and hyperthreads are still not real
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cores which you can learn more about up here but for now let's see how worth it
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the first unlocked core I3 really is
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okay to start us off there's the specs it's got two cores and four threads like
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I mentioned earlier but it also has 4 megabytes of cache so it's exactly half
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of a Cory 7 7700k in every way thus far
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but the story changes when you look at clock speed a 7700k boost to 4.5 GHz a
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7350k drops that down but not by much
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just to 4.2 GHz and that's also not the whole story if someone buys a K series
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I3 I fully expect and hope that they
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plan to overclock it that's the whole point so anyways I got mine up to 5 GHz
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easily with 1.4 volts but with some tuning I'd expect that you'd be able to
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drop that down to like 1.35 volts or maybe even lower I stress tested it for
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a long time and it was Rock Solid I'm
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not the only one either people are getting 5 gz on this chip all over the
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Internet it's an exciting time to be an I3 like before though you'll need an
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overclockable chipset so Zed series if
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you want to learn more about the Zed 270 motherboards the updated on board
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graphics and the finer details of Intel's latest platform check out this
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video up here but okay enough of that let's talk about performance this is not
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an easy answer I put our 7350k on the
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bench along with an ASUS Rog z270 Maximus 9 code 16 gigs of gskill ddr4
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RAM a Corsair h100 GTX V2 extreme and a
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Founders Edition NVIDIA GTX 1080 just to
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remove potential GPU bottlenecks in games on the same setup I also o ran a
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core i57400 the 7400 it's a true quad core
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with 4 total threads that cost $182 just $2 more than the
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7350k to do this we used the 7700k and
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adjusted hyperthreading settings and multiplier settings to get pretty much
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equivalent performance it works trust me
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and if you don't believe it check out this video remember no K so no
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overclocking it's not an option for most people the first comparison that I want
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to do between our 7400 and our 7350k is
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cinebench the 7350k has a way higher
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clock speed at 5 GHz versus 3.5 so it
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should crush in single core performance and it did so all is well except that it
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also crushed in multi-threaded those Speedy little hyperthreaded cores not
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only crushed in cine bench but also pull the victory in our seven zip test and
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our image editing through ASUS Rog
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realbench that's 4 to zero so far but
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before you go out and spend your $182 on
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an I3 7350k and two cans of pop there is
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also video encoding to consider the i57400 did win the real bench en coding
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tests but not by much then there's
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gaming ah man there is no difference
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between either of these processors or the top-of-the line 7700 k when testing
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DSX mankind divided so I guess I can go
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ahead and never test that when comparing CPUs ever again so anyways moving on in
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GTA 5 rise of the Tomb Raider and Ashes of the singularity average performance
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was very similar there were some
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differences in minimums with the 7350k falling behind although it was a little
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inconsistent and not that major either way so in conclusion the Intel I3 7350k
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costs more than we feel like it should
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but I was also expecting it to not be that great considering quad cores have
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been considered the minimum for gaming for quite some time now but it destroyed
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so that's pretty cool other things to consider could be direct X12 and Vulcan
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but I don't expect those to have performance impacts and actual games for
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quite some time now and then there's ryzen if you're looking to upgrade your
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rig anytime time soon you should probably wait for ryzen let's all hope
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