

5th Generation Intel Processors – Broadwellīroadwell was released by Intel in 2015. The main benefit of Haswell is that it can be used in ultra-portable devices due to its low power consumption. Haswell carries a lot of features from Ivy Bridge with some very exciting new features like support for new sockets (LGA 1150, BGA 1364, LGA 2011-3), DDR4 technology, a completely new cache design, etc. The performance improvement of Haswell as compared to the Ivy Bridge is from 3% to 8%. It uses the same 22-nm process as Ivy Bridge. Haswell was released by Intel in June 2013. 4th Generation Intel Processors – Haswell


Ivy Bridge architecture uses the same 1155 LGA socket with DDR3-1333 to DDR3-1600 RAM. The only problem with Ivy Bridge processors is that they may emit more heat as compared to Sandy Bridge processors. This processor model consumes up to 50% less energy and will give 25% to 68% increase in performance as compared to Sandy Bridge processors. Introduced in September 2012, Ivy Bridge processors are faster than Sandy Bridge processors and use the 22-nanometer process as opposed to 32 nm used in Sandy Bridge. 3rd Generation Intel Processors – Ivy Bridge It uses 1155 LGA socket and 2-channel DDR3-1066 RAM. For extreme processors, it was from 10 MB to 15 MB. Normally the Sandy Bridge processor 元 cache was from 1MB to 8 MB. Sandy Bridge uses the same 64 KB L1 cache and 256 KB per core for L2 cache but the difference is in the 元 cache. We will discuss these generations in detail below.Ĭlick on the image below to open a visual timeline of Intel processor generations: The difference in processor micro-architecture is the main difference in processor generations. The concept of generations mainly comes after the release of the Core i series.

These are models or brands of processors from Intel. The misconceptionįirst of all, many people think that Core i3, i5, and i7 are the processor generations. After researching a lot, I have enough knowledge that I can write and document the differences which I have found in this article. To my astonishment, there was no complete guide available which could tell clearly about the Intel processor generations and their differences. So I came home and wanted to know about the philosophy of processor generations on the Internet. I asked the person the difference between first-generation and the fourth generation but he was unable to answer properly, saying that the fourth generation was faster than the 1st, 2nd and 3rd generations. The last time when I went to the computer shop to inquire about the latest prices of laptops, I was told that the new laptop had the Intel fourth-generation processor.
