Intel Naming Process And Offerings Explained!! Does i7 mean 7th Generation?
While surfing the web, looking for your perfect laptop,
you may have come across come across a listing- “_ i7-3920XM, 3rd Generation
_”. And now you are thinking, “What kind of trickery is this? How can an i7 processor
be from 3rd Generation when it has i7 in the name?” Well, if you were
wondering that at any point of your life, then I am sorry for you may friend
that is not how Intel’s naming system works. To understand what these i7, i5,
and i3 along with the processor numbers like 7700 actually mean read this article
to the very end.
You should
clearly understand that this post is only regarding the numbers that you see at
the end and beginning. If you wish to know about the letters in Intel CPUs you
can know more on them here. In this post let’s just focus on the i3, i5 and i7
and the processor numbers. The first thing you need to know is that that the
i3, i5 and i7 do not stand for Generation number of the processor. The
generation of processor is actually indicated by the first number in the
processor number. In case of 7700HQ, 7 stands for 7th Generation. So,
for example 3920XM, 3 stands for 3rd Generation. You can check some
of the example down below.
Now the i3, i5
and i7 are a whole another story. i5 stands for a processor that has two cores,
Hyper threading, Smaller Cache, Use less power and generally perform worse than
a core i5. You might be thinking that a core i5 has 4 cores and core i7 have 6
cores, But it is not as simple s that. Instead a mobile core i5 has 2 cores and
a desktop variant has 4 cores, Improved on-board graphics, and has Turbo Boost.
Intel Turbo Boost is Intel's trade name for a feature that
automatically raises certain of its processors' operating frequency,
and thus performance, when demanding tasks are running. Turbo-Boost-enabled
processors are the Core i5, Core i7 and Core i9 series manufactured
since 2008. The frequency is accelerated when the operating system requests
the highest performance state of the processor.
All Intel core
i7 processors support Hyperthreading, Anywhere ranging from 2-8 cores for performance
from an Ultrabook to workstations, 2-8 memory stick supports, and 10W-130W TDP.
Core i7s have more cache, Faster Turbo Boost, and Better on board graphics than
any other processor except core i9s. The thing you don’t need to know about is
core i9. Core i9 is Intel’s highest offerings for the consumer market today
with their best offering being core i9-8950HK. Intel core i9 has 12 MB Smart
Cache, 6 Cores, 12 Threads, 45.0 W Max TDP, 2.90 GHz Clock Speed, 4.80 GHz Max,
and Turbo Frequency. And of course it has support for all of the other good
stuff including Thunderbolt 3 and VR gaming. It is obvious that with such high
specifications, Core i9 absolutely crushes content creation.
That is all
you need to know about the naming and meaning of the numbers in the names of
Intel processor names. We hope next time you see a core i5-7700HQ, you know it
means that it is a 7th generation processor with core i5 offerings. If
you want to know about Intel’s naming system regarding letters, you can read an
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