Intel Core 7 350 'Wildcat Lake' CPU spotted on PassMark, exchanges blows with the Apple A19 Pro

The Intel Core 300 "Wildcat Lake" family has been showing up on PassMark fairly regularly over the past few weeks, and now we have a new addition to the list. We have already covered PassMark entries for the Core 5 320 and Core 5 330, and now we're moving up the stack. The Intel Core 7 350, which is the second-fastest SKU in the Wildcat Lake lineup, has just appeared on the benchmarking platform for the first time.

As a quick refresher, Wildcat Lake is Intel's new lineup of affordable, low-power chips designed for entry-level and mid-range notebooks. The Core 7 350 is a 6-core, 6-thread CPU with 2 "Cougar Cove" P-cores and 4 "Darkmont" LPE cores, with P-cores boosting up to 4.8 GHz. It sits just below the Core 7 360 in the hierarchy, sharing identical specifications aside from not supporting Intel's SIPP enterprise validation program.

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On PassMark, the Core 7 350 scored 4,228 points in single-threaded performance and 16,237 points in multi-threaded. Those are the best numbers any Wildcat Lake chip has posted on the platform to date. To put that into context, the Apple A19 Pro scores around 5,172 in single-threaded and 14,836 in multi-threaded. That means the Core 7 350 trails the A19 Pro by around 18% in single-core performance, but leads it by approximately 9% in multi-core performance.

We can also compare it against the other Wildcat Lake chips already on PassMark. The Core 5 320 scored 4,104 in single-threaded and 15,346 in multi-threaded, while the Core 5 330 put up similar numbers. The Core 7 350 edges both of them out, which makes sense given the higher clock speeds. Other than that, all three chips are essentially identical in configuration, sharing the same 6-core layout, 6 MB L3 cache, and 15W TDP.

Regardless, it is impressive to see where even the mid-range Wildcat Lake chips are landing against Apple's silicon. If the performance scales properly with higher-end variants, laptops built around these chips could represent a compelling, affordable alternative to the $599 MacBook Neo.

We are already starting to see Wildcat Lake laptops surface from various OEMs, so independent real-world results should not be too far off.