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, 3^rd Generation _”. And now you are thinking, “What kind of trickery is this? How can an i7 processor be from 3^rd 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 7^th Generation. So, for example 3920XM, 3 stands for 3^rd 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 7^th generation processor with core i5 offerings. If you want to know about Intel’s naming system regarding letters, you can read an article here. To read more of such informative article and Tech news, Subscribe to Rohan Wayangankar’s Blog.

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