Civilians’ e-sports god u! Intel Core i3
I. Preface: The i3-9350K with super single-core performance is coming.
Many students have asked this question before: "Why does my GTX 1080 only have more than 100 frames in LOL, while others’ GTX 1060 has more than 300 frames?"
The reason for this problem is that some players pursue graphics cards too much and ignore the influence of CPU on the game frame rate.
Games such as League of Legends, DOTA 2, world of tanks and Crossing the Line of Fire are different from large-scale 3A games. They don’t need very powerful graphics cards, but desperately need the powerful single-core performance of CPU.In a simple sentence: how strong your CPU single-core performance is, how high the frame rate of these games can run!
Ok, back to our test protagonist Core i3-9350K today! The default acceleration frequency of this cost-effective God U can reach 4.6GHz, and it can be easily overclocked to 5.3GHz with a little hands-on ability, which means it can have the strongest single-core performance of mainstream processors at present!
This is the i3-9350K processor we received. Because we received the QS engineering sample version, it is slightly different in appearance from the retail version, and the specific model is not marked.
In terms of parameter specifications, i3-9350K adopts quad-core and four-thread design, with 14nm process technology, basic frequency of 4.0GHz, maximum acceleration frequency of 4.6GHz, full-core frequency of 4.4GHz, and 8MB three-level cache.
Of course, for DIY players, the biggest attraction of i3-9350K lies in its overclocking ability. We will do a detailed overclocking test later.This processor will have great surprises in overclocking potential, temperature and power consumption!
PS: Spoiler here in advance: 9350K overclocked to 5.3GHz can be easily suppressed with only one hundred yuan air-cooled radiator.
Second, overclocking and temperature test: 1.36V can be easily suppressed on a 5.3GHz hundred yuan radiator.
The test platform is as follows:
1. Temperature test
Use AIDA64 FPU program to test the baking machine, and match with player’s cool extreme MaterLiquid 240 water-cooled radiator. The silicone grease is Arctic MX-4, and the room temperature is 28 degrees.
After running in silent frequency for 5 minutes, the core power consumption of AIDA64 FPU, i3-9350K is stable at 58W, the baking machine frequency is stable at 4.4GHz, and the baking machine temperature is only 64 degrees.
2, overclocking test
The overclocking ability of a processor depends on many factors, such as architecture, specifications, physique and so on. For the 9th generation Core, temperature is also an important factor that affects overclocking. i9-9900K can overclock to 5GHz, and i7-9700K without hyperthreading can overclock to 5.1GHz easily. What about the overclocking ability of i3-9350K with only half the core number of i7-9700K?
After debugging, the i3-9350K in our hand can stably reach the frequency of 5.3GHz at a voltage of 1.36V, and it has passed the test of AIDA64 FPU baking machine for 7 minutes.
At the frequency of 5.3GHz, the core power consumption of i3-9350K is only 79 watts, and the temperature is 86 degrees.
According to the power consumption of 79W baking machine, a hundred yuan radiator can be easily suppressed.The reason why the temperature can’t be lowered with 240 water cooling is that the silicone grease used in i3-9350K conducts heat, and the heat can’t be quickly discharged from the interior. At this time, changing the radiator will not have a good effect.
The Ruilong 7 3800X/3700X processor is also in a similar situation. The Die area is too small to export heat quickly, and any radiator has no obvious cooling effect.
3. Power consumption test
The power consumption of standby and baking machine in silent frequency and overclocking environment was tested respectively. The power supply used is extremely cool V850 platinum brand power supply.
The following data is the overall power consumption of the platform.
The power consumption test is carried out in the nuclear display state.
In the silent frequency state, the standby power consumption of the whole machine on the i3-9350K+MXH platform is only 27W, and the power consumption of the whole machine is only 98W when the baking machine is tested with AIDA64 FPU.
Overclocking to 5.3GHz, standby power consumption reached 45W, which was 18 W higher than that of silent frequency. The power consumption of the whole roaster is 132W W.
Third, the theoretical performance test: the strongest single-core performance
1、CPU-Z v1.90
The score of i3-9350K overclocked to 5.3GHz in CPU-Z is 631, which is the highest single-core score we have ever seen in the test.
The multithreading score is 2382.
Compared with the silent frequency, the single-thread score of 5.3GHz increased by 86 points, with an increase of 16%; The multi-thread score increased by 362 points, with an increase of 18%.
2、wPrime v2.10
In the performance test of wPrime 32M single thread, it takes 25.4 seconds for 5.3GHz i3-9350K (about 28 seconds for 5GHz 9900K).
In the performance test of wPrime 1024M multithreading, the 5.3GHz i3-9350K took 205 seconds.
After overclocking, the time consumed by the i3-9350K single thread is reduced by 4.1 seconds, which is 16% faster.
Multithreading takes 41.7 seconds less and is nearly 20% faster.
3、FritzChess Benchmark
The score of 5.3GHz i3-9350K chess is 16254.
After overclocking, the i3-9350K is 2400 points more than the silent frequency, with an increase of 17%.
4、CineBench R15
The single thread score of i3-9350K at 5.3GHz is 230cb, which is much higher than that of i9-9900K at 5GHz, and the score of the latter is 215cb.
The score of multithreading is 875cb, which is already stronger than the flagship i7-7700K of silent seven-generation Core.
In terms of single thread, the overclocked i3-9350K increased by 29 points, with an increase of 14.5%;
Multithreading increased by 140 points, and the improvement rate exceeded 18%.
5、CineBench R20
The score of i3-9350K single thread at 5.3GHz is 553cb；;
The score of multithreading is 2101cb.
Compared with silent frequency, the single-thread score of i3-9350K overclocked to 5.3GHz increased by 72 points, with an increase of 15%.
Multithreading increased by 375 points, with an increase of more than 20%.
6、3DMark
Overclocking to 5.3GHz.
After overclocking, the score of i3-9350K is 1927 points higher than that of silent frequency, and the improvement range is close to 20%.
Generally speaking, the single-thread performance of i3-9350K after overclocking to 5.3GHz has reached the highest level at present, which is about 15% higher than that of silent frequency. The performance of multithreading is improved by nearly 20% after overclocking.
Fourth, the game performance test: achieve the highest frame rate of mainstream e-sports games.
Our test platform uses the colorful Igame GeForce GTX 1660 Advanced OC6G graphics card. In order to minimize the impact of the graphics card on the test, we choose 1920*1080 resolution during the test, and choose "medium" image quality in mainstream single-machine masterpieces.
1. Knife Tower moves itself.
There is no test program for "Knife Tower Walking Chess", and the situation of each game is different, so it is impossible to accurately compare the performance of hardware with its frame rate. Here we just show you the performance of i3-9350K in this game.
Different from Dota 2, Knife Tower Self-moving Chess is a game that consumes a lot of CPU. As can be seen from the above figure, the i3-9350K quad-core overclocked to 5.3GHz is fully occupied, and the CPU utilization rate is 100%, while the GPU utilization rate is only 42%.
During the test, we tried all the image quality options from the lowest to the highest, and different image quality has little effect on the frame rate. This is a game that consumes a lot of CPU and not much GPU.
Many students should have had such an experience. At the beginning of the game, the frame rate can reach 5,60FPS, but when it develops to 8 population wars, the frame rate will plummet to 10FPS. This is because the performance of CPU is too weak, and upgrading CPU is the simplest and most direct way to improve the frame rate of "Knife Tower Walking Chess".
Here, the 5.3GHz i3-9350K can still show nearly 100 frames during the 8 population wars.
2. League of Legends
League of Legends also has no testing program, and a fair testing method is to compare the frame rate in the birthplace after the opening.
The frame rate of i3-9350K at the time of silent frequency was 284FPS at the place of birth, and after overclocking to 5.3GHz, the frame rate increased to 334FPS.
League of Legends is a typical game that eats CPU instead of graphics card. As can be seen from the above picture, even if the frame rate of the game reaches 282FPS at the highest quality, the utilization rate of GPU is only about 20%. Moreover, this game is not sensitive to multiple cores, and it can probably use 2~3 cores.
If the frame rate of League of Legends exceeds 300FPS, you need to buy a high-frequency 4-core processor.
3. world of tanks
World of tanks is a classic war online game, and it can use up to four CPU cores.
The score of i3-9350K processor overclocked to 5.3GHz is 49498, which translates to a frame rate of 298FPS.
World of tanks also depends on the performance of GPU. When the frequency is muted, the frame rate of i3-9350K is 284FPS, and after overclocking to 5.3GHz, the frame rate reaches 298FPS, with an increase of only about 5%.
Even with ordinary image quality, the GPU utilization rate of GTX 1660 is over 97%, while the CPU utilization rate is less than 80%. This is why the frame rate of the game has not changed much after overclocking (GPU has become the bottleneck of the system). This game wants high frame rate, which requires both high-performance CPU and high-performance graphics card.
4. APEX hero
"Apex Hero" does not provide a test program. In order to reduce the interference of variables during the test, we choose to test the frame number in the training ground and manually adjust it to medium quality during the test. We recorded the frame rate in the training ground and actual combat, so it has certain reference value.
When the frequency is muted, the frame rate of i3-9350K is 138FPS. After overclocking to 5.3GHz, the frame rate is only increased by 3FPS. Even with medium image quality, GTX 1660 still achieves 100% GPU utilization.
5, Jedi survival
"Survival of the Jedi" is an online competitive game, which can rarely support 6 cores.
In Survival of the Jedi, the frame rate of the silent i3-9350K is 130FPS, and the frame rate is only increased by 2FPS after overclocking to 5.3GHz.
As a game that needs CPU very much, the main reason why the frame rate of the game hardly improves after overclocking to 5.3GHz is that the GPU is too weak.
6. Assassin’s Creed: Origin
As can be seen from the above figure, the CPU score is 10ms, while the GTX 1660 score is 12ms, which means that even with "medium" image quality, the GPU still has a certain bottleneck, but this bottleneck is not very big.
In Assassin’s Creed: Origin, the frame rate of silent frequency i3-9350K is 75FPS. After overclocking to 5.3GHz, the frame rate reaches 83FPS, which is 8 frames higher, and it still has certain effect.
7. Tomb Raider: Shadow
As can be seen from the above figure, in Tomb Raider: Shadow, there is a huge bottleneck in GPU. The average rendering time of CPU is 7ms, but it is as high as 11.8ms for GPU. During the whole test, the frame rate generated by GPU per second is much lower than that rendered by CPU per second.
Of course, when the test is about 80%, the rendering time of CPU exceeds that of GPU, that is to say, overclocking CPU can still bring a little bit of frame rate improvement.
In Tomb Raider: Shadow, the frame rate of silent frequency i3-9350K is 81FPS. After overclocking to 5.3GHz, the frame rate reaches 83FPS, which is 2 frames higher.
V. Summary: E-sports God U of civilians
The overclocking ability of Core i3-9350K really brought us a lot of surprises. This i3-9350K in our hand can easily overclock to 5.3GHz and pass the AIDA64 FPU baking machine test!
As far as single-core performance is concerned, the i3-9350K at 5.3GHz is the strongest among all the processors we have tested at present. The CPU-Z single thread score of 631, the CineBench R15 single thread of 230cb, and the wPrime 32M single thread only took 25 seconds to run, etc. all prove the power of 5.3GHz.
The lack of hyper-threading function has some influence on the performance of multi-threading, but the ultra-high frequency can also make up for the lack of multi-core performance.I3-9350K overclocked to 5.3GHz is not inferior to i7-7700K with silent frequency in multithreading performance, and it is not inferior to the higher-order i5-9400.
Of course, overclocking ability is not the only surprise, and its performance in temperature and power consumption is also quite bright.
The voltage of 1.36V may be unbearable for an 8-core processor, but it’s not a problem at all in a quad-core i3-9350K!
When the 5.3GHz i3-9350K roasters, the power consumption of the processor core is less than 80W.This is much lower than the default TDP of many processors today, so it becomes relatively easy to control the temperature. Using a 100-yuan air-cooled radiator, the temperature of the baking machine can be suppressed to 86 degrees. In daily use,In most cases, the temperature can be controlled within 60 degrees.
At present, Core i3-9350K has not been officially quoted in China, but his brother i3-9350KF has been put up for 979 yuan on the platform of JD.COM, which is a Ferrari for civilians! For e-sports players who pursue the ultimate cost performance, i3-9350K is a tempting choice.
If you have certain hands-on overclocking ability, the i3-9350K overclocked to 5.3GHz has the frame rate performance of the top processor in competitive games such as Knife Tower, world of tanks and League of Legends. The same is true for similar games such as CS:GO and Crossing the Line of Fire.
If you want to have a frame rate of 300FPS in League of Legends, and want to enjoy the fluency of nearly 100 frames in the fiercest battle of Knife Tower, and you don’t have enough budget, this i3-9350K is your dish!
Comprehensive reader’s comments, and then make some supplements:
1. The requirements of the 5.3GHz 9350K radiator are very low, and a hundred yuan radiator is enough;
2, 5.3GHz 9350K can provide the highest frame rate in mainstream e-sports games, but it doesn’t mean that it can’t play large stand-alone games. Its multi-core performance is equivalent to that of i5-9400F/i7-7700K, and when it is matched with RTX 2080Ti, the frame rate is not as good as 9900K in games like Tomb Raider: Shadow. But if you use a graphics card below RTX 2070, there won’t be much difference between the two;
3. Demand for the motherboard: We have not measured this in detail, but the 9350K roaster only has 80W at 5.3GHz, which proves that it does not have too high demand for the motherboard, and the 9900K 5GHz roaster 260W needs to supply the top motherboard;
4, 5.3GHz 9350K features overclocking and cost performance, suitable for e-sports players with insufficient budget.