{"id":1324,"date":"2010-05-17T21:00:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2010-05-17T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T15:40:00","slug":"intel-core-i3-core-i5-core-i7-extreme-cpu-processor-comparison-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/2010\/05\/17\/intel-core-i3-core-i5-core-i7-extreme-cpu-processor-comparison-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel Core i3 vs. Core i5 vs. Core i7 vs. Core i7 Extreme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wondering whats the difference between Intel Core i3, Core i5, Core i7 and Core i7 Extreme processors?<\/p>\n<p>Without going through long technical (and marketing) terms, here is the main difference in short:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intel Core i3 Processor:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/intel-core-i3-processor.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Intel Core i3 Processor\" width=\"700\" height=\"296\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/intel-core-i3-processor.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/intel-core-i3-processor-300x126.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><br \/>\nAll Intel Core i3 processors got 2 cores\/4 threads. They come with 3MB (on laptop) or 4MB(on desktop) Cache Memory. While Hyper-Threading is present, Turbo Boost is NOT AVAILABLE on Core i3 processors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intel Core i5 Processor:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/intel-core-i5-processor.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Intel Core i5 Processor\" width=\"700\" height=\"745\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/intel-core-i5-processor.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/intel-core-i5-processor-281x300.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><br \/>\nAll Intel Core i5 processors got 2 cores\/4 threads or 4 cores\/4 threads (on i5-750S and i5-750 desktop processor). They come with 3MB (on laptop) or 4\/8MB(on desktop) Cache Memory. Both Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost is available on all Core i5 processors except for i5-750S and i5-750 desktop processors where neither is present!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intel Core i7 Processor:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/intel-core-i7-processor.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Intel Core i7 Processor\" width=\"700\" height=\"829\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/intel-core-i7-processor.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/intel-core-i7-processor-253x300.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><br \/>\nIntel Core i7 processors got 4 cores\/8 threads or 2 cores\/4 threads (on i7-620M, i7-640LM, i7-620LM, i7-640UM and i7-620UM  laptop processors). They come with 4, 6 or 8 MB Cache Memory. Both Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost is available on all Core i7 processors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intel Core i7 Extreme Processor:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/intel-core-i7-extreme-processor.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Intel Core i7 Extreme Processor\" width=\"700\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/intel-core-i7-extreme-processor.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/intel-core-i7-extreme-processor-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><br \/>\nIntel Core i7 Extreme processors got 4 cores\/8 threads or 6 cores\/12 threads (on i7-980X desktop processor only). They come with 8 or 12 MB(on i7-980X desktop processor only) Cache Memory. Both Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost is available on all Core i7 processors.<\/p>\n<p>So, <em>in short<\/em>:<br \/>\n<strong>Intel Core i3<\/strong>:<br \/>\nCores\/Threads: 2 cores\/4 threads<br \/>\nHyper-Threading: YES<br \/>\nTurbo Boost: NO<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intel Core i5<\/strong>:<br \/>\nCores\/Threads: 2 cores\/4 threads (4 cores\/4 threads on some models)<br \/>\nHyper-Threading: YES<br \/>\nTurbo Boost: YES<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intel Core i7<\/strong>:<br \/>\nCores\/Threads: 4 cores\/8 threads (2 cores\/4 threads on some models)<br \/>\nHyper-Threading: YES<br \/>\nTurbo Boost: YES<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intel Core i7 Extreme<\/strong>:<br \/>\nCores\/Threads: 4 cores\/8 threads (6 cores\/12 threads on some models)<br \/>\nHyper-Threading: YES<br \/>\nTurbo Boost: YES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wondering whats the difference between Intel Core i3, Core i5, Core i7 and Core i7 Extreme processors? Without going through long technical (and marketing) terms, here is the main difference in short: Intel Core i3 Processor: All Intel Core i3 processors got 2 cores\/4 threads. They come with 3MB (on laptop) or 4MB(on desktop) Cache [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[221,99,225,224,222,223,220],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-cpu","tag-intel","tag-intel-core-i3","tag-intel-core-i5","tag-intel-core-i7","tag-intel-core-i7-extreme","tag-processor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}