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Intel Kaby Lake Core i3-7350K versus non-K Showdown

CPU by leeghoofd @ 2017-02-26

Time for an update to the Kaby Lake launch article! Even though the multiplier-unlocked K-skew models are fairly priced, still a lot of PC users/builders opt-in for the cheaper variants. Mostly to cut down on the total system price or to maintain a better price/performance balance between the different components. Myself being labeled as a hardcore tweaker/overclocker has a hard time to grasp the previous. The quest for extra performance is never ending, being it for daily usage or for extreme benchmarking. Yet again is all this power required for daily usage? Do gamers need all this processor power or is a cheaper processor also a worthwhile option? Today we will test the Non-K skew Kaby Lake processors series and also compare them to the freshly released Core i3-7350K with the trustworthy MadShrimps test suite.

Maxon Cinebench R10 and R11.5

CINEBENCH is a real-world cross platform test suite that evaluates your computer's performance capabilities. CINEBENCH is based on MAXON's award-winning animation software Cinema 4D, which is used extensively by studios and production houses worldwide for 3D content creation. MAXON software has been used in blockbuster movies such as Iron Man 3, Oblivion, Life of Pi or Prometheus and many more. CINEBENCH is the perfect tool to compare CPU and graphics performance across various systems and platforms (Windows and OS X). And best of all: It's completely free!

Cinebench R10

With Maxon's Cinebench R10 we cross check again Single and Multi-threaded processor performance. Single threaded wise the core I3 73xx even give the i5 7600K a run for its money, though once we ran the multi-threaded test the lack of cores becomes obvious.

Cinebench R11.5

With the Cinebench Release 11.5 OpenGL test we can see how the processor can support the MSI Radeon R290X Lightning card. All processors put down pretty solid Frames Per Second. Anyway the score scales with clockspeed and available cores, thus even a lower clocked i5 can still match the faster clocked Core i3's with ease. The CPU test is again a clear victory for the Core i5/7s.

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