Sunday, May 28th 2017
Intel Cuts Price of Core i3-7350K Overclocker-friendly Dual-core Chip
Over the weekend, Intel cut the retail price of its overclocker-friendly dual-core chip, the Core i3-7350K. The chip is now priced at USD $149, down from its launch price of $184. Based on the 14 nm "Kaby Lake" silicon, the i3-7350K is designed to target the performance-segment gaming PC crowd by offering two cores clocked extremely high out of the box, which in Intel's calculation could prove sufficient to power gaming at 1080p or even 1440p. Then there's always the joy of overclocking, thanks to its unlocked base-clock multiplier.
The Core i3-7350K features out of the box clock speeds of 4.20 GHz. Turbo Boost isn't available to the Core i3 brand. The dual-core chip features HyperThreading, enabling 4 logical CPUs for the OS to deal with. It also gets 4 MB of shared L3 cache. Its $184 launch price may have been rendered untenable by competing AMD Ryzen 5-1500X and Ryzen 5-1400 quad-core parts priced at $189 and $169, respectively, which not just give you two more cores, but also double or quadruple the L3 cache, and unlocked multipliers. Unlike the two Ryzen 5 quad-core parts, the Core i3-7350K retail package lacks a stock cooler, escalating its cost by at least another $20 for a decent cooler, if you don't have one. These factors may have driven the price-cut.
The Core i3-7350K features out of the box clock speeds of 4.20 GHz. Turbo Boost isn't available to the Core i3 brand. The dual-core chip features HyperThreading, enabling 4 logical CPUs for the OS to deal with. It also gets 4 MB of shared L3 cache. Its $184 launch price may have been rendered untenable by competing AMD Ryzen 5-1500X and Ryzen 5-1400 quad-core parts priced at $189 and $169, respectively, which not just give you two more cores, but also double or quadruple the L3 cache, and unlocked multipliers. Unlike the two Ryzen 5 quad-core parts, the Core i3-7350K retail package lacks a stock cooler, escalating its cost by at least another $20 for a decent cooler, if you don't have one. These factors may have driven the price-cut.
32 Comments on Intel Cuts Price of Core i3-7350K Overclocker-friendly Dual-core Chip
You have to remember that 4-thread Pentiums are $60 - $75 (And can still usually be overclocked to 4.5GHz through BLCK), and of course Ryzen is $170 for double the cores.
Even with higher clockspeeds/IPC, one has to remember that long-term 4c/8t Ryzens will smash i3's...
ftfy
400 bucks and you have an 8 core and a motherboard capable of 4ghz (I've done so) in m-atx.
Lovely :D
Anyways on to the topic at hand, this cpu should be 80 bucks cause dualcores are crappy and belongs to pre 2010.
EDIT: Looked up prices again, and it turns out the cheapest b350 is about €15 less than the cheapest z270. A difference, but not a huge difference.
Germany, UK, Norway and sweden and I found a B350 Asus Prime at 85€ and below.
115 euro for Z270 thus making it 30€ less for a B350.
6800K - £409 down to £339
6850K - £577 down to £409
6900K - £977 down to £835 - still a tough sell now with ryzen out
-6950X = $999
-6900K = $549
-6850K = $399
-6800K = $299
^Same goes for the Skylake-X replacements.
The problem is it costs Intel more money than AMD to make the equivalent products (AMD has better yields, and their CCX design saves even more money). Thus I don't think Intel could even do these prices while making a decent profit. I would argue they should lose some profits to keep marketshare though....
An excellent entry CPU to be paired with an RX 560, 550 Ti, or even a 1060/570 if you can find one cheap.
i listed them prices as that is what they have dropped to on scan.co.uk, yeah uk pricing is awful, but what we can take from it is that the 6850k (the 40 pci lane one) is now the price the 28 lane 6800k was, an almost £170 price drop
I'm pretty sure however these price drops have just as much/more to do with the imminent x299 release than competing with AMD
Personally I don't think Intel is just preparing for AMD's x299, I think they are also softening the blow of the massively lower prices the Skylake-X and Coffeelake CPU's will have. I fully expect 6-core Coffeelake i7's to be under $349.
With all the extra core counts we might see the 8 core models drop a bit, charging 3 times the price of an 8 core ryzen is a bit much after all
I think you are right about the coffeelake 6 cores, i dont think they will charge any more than $50 more than the top 115x chips have been going for, 6 core will just become the new norm, we have already seen them add hyperthreading to pentiums at virtually no price increase this gen