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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.

Deep Fritz 12 and Handbrake Test

Deep Fritz 12

We still include Deep Fritz 12, a chess program with integrated benchmark. Sadly no new updates have been made so the benchmark is using a maximum of 8 cores. Nevertheless still perfectly fine to compare some modern mainstream processors with one another.

Comparing the performance between these CPUs, we constantly spot the same: The Core I3s are no match for their i5 counterparts, no matter the clock speed. The K versus non K models reign due to higher core speeds and idem ditto Turbo clocks.

Handbrake:

HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs. We use a sample 4K video file which you can grab here. We convert into a MP4 format and monitor the average FPS during the Fast 1080P encode. No alterations are made to improve performance anywhere. These are out of the box runs on the Handbrake 1.02 version.

Nothing new under the horizon as the same behavior is noticed time after time, if you want to encode go for Quad more cores and just avoid Core i3's in general.

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