Intel Core i3-7350K Kaby Lake Benchmarks Leak Out

The Intel Core i3-7350K is supposed to be the first ever unlocked Intel Core i3 series processors and rumors about it have been floating around for weeks. Online rumors have the Intel Kaby Lake desktop series coming out in Q1 2017 and the first ever unlocked Core i3 processor has people interested as it will likely be a low-cost part. The dual-core processor is said to have four threads and will have a base clock able to run up to 4.2 GHz right out of the box. Over the holiday weekend a couple of Geekbench scores have been published that are purportedly of the Intel Core i3-7350K processor.

The GeekBench results show a single-core score of 5,137 and a multi-core score of 10,048 on a system that appears to be running a stock Intel Core i5-7350K processor on an ASUS STRIX Z270H Gaming motherboard along with 16GB of DDR4 memory. An Intel Core i3-6100 Skylake processor is capable of around 4,000 points on the single-core test and 7,600 points on the multi-core test, so this is a nice little performance boost. The Intel Core i3-6100 Skylake processor is priced at $104.99 shipped and has a base clock of 3.7 GHz and does not have a Turbo Boost clock. According to an image released by WCCFTech, the starting price on the Intel Core i3-7350K will be just below $180.

The leaked benchmark results don’t show any overclocking results and that is what we are most interested in since this is an unlocked processor that is aimed at budget overclockers. We can’t wait to see how this new unlocked Core i3 processor performs as if it is a capable overclocker, Intel might have a winner with the budget crowd that has traditionally gone with AMD. Could this be a sign that Intel is worried a little bit about AMD’s upcoming ZEN based processors?