Intel Core i3-7350K vs Intel Core i5-6500

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 115.00
$ 103.63
$ 11.37 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1742 points
2289 points
31% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3492 points
4255 points
21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1292 points
1743 points
34% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1240 points
1675 points
35% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.64 points
44.07 points
20% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2667 points
3159 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1197 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1147 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3026 points
3287 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1496 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1202 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.2 GHz
31% slightly higher clock speed
3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

60 W
8% slightly lower TDP
65 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
Identical
64 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

128 KiB
256 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
1 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
6 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

768th of 1,089
663rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3
6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Core i3-7350K vs Core i5-6500 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6500 is faster than the Core i3-7350K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7350K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-6500 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-7350K. Indeed, the Core i5-6500 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-7350K. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-7350K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6500. A Core i3-7350K CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-6500 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i5-6500 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-7350K. The Core i5-6500 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-7350K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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