Core i3
While we here at AnandTech tend to be focused at the high-end of Intel's Core CPU product stacks, the company has a far more comprehensive lineup than we typically have the time to take a look at. Among these are a significant number of vanilla, non-K series chips. These parts typically offer a better balance of performance, power consumption, and efficiency at every level. This is also where you'll find Intel's cheapest parts– which don't have enthusiast variations – the Core i3 series. Aimed at the entry-level market, the i3 parts are built around four Performance (P) cores, dropping the efficiency cores in exchange for offering entry-level users a cheaper alternative for non-critical and less demanding tasks. For this generation Intel technically only offers a single...
Intel's 10nm Cannon Lake and Core i3-8121U Deep Dive Review
Anyone interested in leading edge semiconductors knows that Intel is late with its newest manufacturing process. The '10nm' node was first announced in 2014, to be released in 2016...
129 by Ian Cutress on 1/25/2019Intel Adds Mobile Core i3-8130U to Lineup: Increased Cache and Turbo
Intel on Tuesday introduced the Core i3-8130U, its first mobile 8th Generation Core i3 processor. The new chip features two cores operating at a high frequency and supports Turbo...
11 by Anton Shilov on 2/14/2018Intel 8th Generation and 9th Generation Processor Lists Leaked: Coffee Lake Refresh?
Officially, Intel does not comment on unreleased products, which often has the knock-on effect that processors aren’t actually known about until the day they appear on shelves. In order...
87 by Ian Cutress on 11/24/2017Price and Availability Watch: Core i7-8700K, Core i5-8600K and Core i3-8350K
Intel on Thursday officially initiated sales of its 8th Generation 'Coffee Lake' processors for desktops worldwide. The new chips offer more physical cores in the mainstream processor segment than...
55 by Anton Shilov on 10/6/2017The AnandTech Coffee Lake Review: Initial Numbers on the Core i7-8700K and Core i5-8400
It has been ten years since Intel introduced quad-core processors into its mainstream product range. It was expected that six-core parts would hit the segment a few years after...
222 by Ian Cutress on 10/5/2017Prices of Intel’s Coffee Lake-S CPUs Published: $400 for Core i7-8700K?
An online retailer in the UK has started to take pre-orders on Intel’s upcoming Coffee Lake CPUs, specifically the socketed 'S' parts for desktop computers. As reported previously, the...
62 by Anton Shilov on 9/19/2017Intel Provides Partners Preliminary 8th Gen Desktop Details: Core i7-8700K to Core i3-8100
At a closed-session partner in China, Intel revealed a number of preliminary details about its upcoming 8th generation Core processors for desktops. As expected, Intel is telling its business...
56 by Anton Shilov on 8/18/2017New Intel Kaby Lake Core i3 Processors: i3-7340, i3-7320T, i3-7120T, i3-7120
Last week Intel recently updated its specifications for the 7th generation processors. In doing so, we can see several new Kaby Lake i3 SKUs coming to desktop, along with...
52 by Ian Cutress & Joe Shields on 7/14/2017The Intel Core i3-7350K (60W) Review: Almost a Core i7-2600K
For some intrepid enthusiasts, this is the chip from Intel we’ve been waiting for. I foolishly predicted that Intel would never create an overclockable Core i3, because it had...
186 by Ian Cutress on 2/3/2017The Skylake Core i3 (51W) CPU Review: i3-6320, i3-6300 and i3-6100 Tested
Out of every generation of Intel processors, the headline acts are the high core count parts, the ones with a high-frequency or the most expensive models. Of course, any...
94 by Ian Cutress on 8/8/2016Why an Overclockable Core i3 Might Not Exist: The Supermicro C7H170-M and Intel Core i3-6100TE Review
When a new Intel platform hits the market, there are two primary product chains - processors and chipsets. For the most part, at least in the consumer space within...
62 by Ian Cutress on 3/17/2016Intel’s Pentium and Core i3 Desktop Ivy Bridge CPUs Arrive
We knew the Core i3 Ivy Bridge CPUs were coming, but details on precisely when that would happen and how much they would cost were a bit harder to...
66 by Jarred Walton on 9/7/2012The Sandy Bridge Review: Intel Core i7-2600K, i5-2500K and Core i3-2100 Tested
Intel never quite reached 4GHz with the Pentium 4. Despite being on a dedicated quest for gigahertz the company stopped short and the best we ever got was 3.8GHz...
284 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/3/2011Intel's Core 2011 Mobile Roadmap Revealed: Sandy Bridge Part II
Late last week we pulled back the covers on Intel's next-generation Core architecture update: Sandy Bridge. Due out in Q1 2011, we learned a lot about Sandy Bridge's performance...
55 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/30/2010The Sandy Bridge Preview
Every two years Intel is committed to introducing a new microprocessor architecture. It's a part of the whole tick-tock strategy that Intel hatched back in 2005 - 2006. Thus...
202 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/27/2010ASRock Core 100HT-BD : Bringing HTPCs to the Mainstream Market [UPDATED : Noise Issue]
Anandtech has evaluated many systems in search of the utopian HTPC. However, every one of them has ended up with some issue or the other. When ASRock offered to...
107 by Ganesh T S on 7/19/2010