Intel core i3-8350k on par with an i7-7700k in mono performance

Intel Core i3-8350K seems to be the most interesting processor in the i3 series 'Coffee Lake'

Intel announced its 8th generation of processors a few days ago. The lineup revealed that the Intel Generation 8 family will be a mix of different architectures. These include Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, and Cannonlake chips.

One of the most interesting series and that will receive more improvements is the most modest series for the desktop market, the Intel Core i3. Intel decided to add as many cores to its most basic series and this brings with it substantial improvements in multi-tasking, but also in single-threaded performance, as revealed by these new leaked benchmarks that hold great promise for these processors.

Intel Core i3-8350K is presented as the most interesting i3 processor because it is the only one in this series that comes with the multiplier unlocked for overclocking at will and would be costing around 200 euros.

Results against an Intel Core i7-7700K with victory

The tests were carried out on CPU-z and AIDA64, where this processor reaches the figures of an i7-7700K. In the first CPU-z benchmark we see that the Core i3-8350k scores 503.3 points in single-threaded performance and 1982.0 points in multi-task. Comparing the single-thread score, we can see that the Core i3-8350k is faster than the Intel Core i7-7700K, which makes 492 points with a clock speed greater than 4.2 GHz base and 4.5 GHz in Turbo, while i3 is running at 4.0 GHz.

In multi-task the Core i7-7700K wins obtaining 2648 points, but we can see that it is only due to the greater number of threads and the i3 seems to be able to improve that score with some overclocking. Remember that these new Core i3 will work with 4 cores and 4 threads of execution instead of 8 as a Core i7 would.

These results are confirmed when the comparison is made in AIDA64 , where the i3-8350K exceeds this time by an i7-6700K.