Intel Core i3 8300 vs Intel Core i3 8350K

Our Intel Core i3-8300 benchmarks and review find this low-cost server CPU to be an interesting value. With its high single threaded performance and capable multi-threaded performance for this price band, it is an interesting Intel Xeon alternativeRead more

The Intel Core i3-8300 was released recently as part of Intel's second wave of Coffee Lake processors. Compared to the i3-8100, it adds 100 MHz to the CPU clock and 2 MB of cache. It lacks the unlocked multiplier of Ryzen, and its integrated graphics are not nearly as fast as those of Ryzen G models. Is it still a good option in the $150 CPU market?Read more

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Firstly, it is unlocked, and secondly. It's good that you can overclock it, but that's unquestionably a lot of money for a chip that most of us would perceive as being a budget offering.Read more

For $180 the Core i3-8350K is nearly a rebadged Core i5-7600K: both are 14nm quad-cores operating at ~4GHz, but the 8350K is 25% cheaper. Meanwhile, the Core...Read more