The bestselling Intel processors right now are Intel® Core™ i7 Extreme, Intel® Core™ i7, Intel® Core™ i5, Intel® Core™ i3, Intel® Pentium® Mobile and Intel® Celeron® Mobile. Here is a simple but substantial guide illustrating the difference between i3, i5 and i7 processors.
Difference Between i3, i5 and i7 Processors
Core i7 is the fastest and most robust processor among all. It is ideal for gaming, working on any kind of software and with a phenomenal boot time and processing speed no task is big enough or long enough with the Core i7. However it is certainly not on the very affordable side of any processor comparison and only the high end professionals would perhaps be able to afford the Core i7. The Core i7 Extreme is a tad better than the i7 but an ordinary user would not find any major difference.
The Core i5 is not massively cheaper than the higher version but there is a bit of financial leeway and the experience is not immensely affected. Multitasking is a breeze on the Core i5, the boot speed would appear to be precisely the same to those who aren’t the finest geeks and can spot a difference of a microsecond and all state of the art software and hardware are conveniently compatible with the Core i5.
The Core i3 processors are lightening fast for those who have been used to the Dual Cores and Core 2 Duos. While the Core i5 does manage to be a worthwhile choice for professionals, the Core i3 is best for personal uses and would not be a perfect fit for demanding professional computing.
The i3 is a dual core processor, the i5 is a quad core processor and the i7 is a quad core processor with hyper-threading. All three processors have the Intel Turbo Boost Technology. This allows the processor to increase the clock speed and operate faster when there is a need. The level of boost will depend on the number of cores so the i3 will have the least impetus while the i7 will have the maximum boost. The i3 has 3MB to 4MB of cache, i5 has 4MB to 6MB and i7 has 8MB of cache.
The Core processors from Intel have hyper threading. The i3 being a dual core serves four threads. The i5 doesn’t support hyper threading but for the i5-4570T. The i5 processors serve four threads being quad core. The i7 serves eight threads.
