PC CPU Shipments See Steepest Decline in 30 Years

Re:PC CPU Shipments See Steepest Decline in 30 Years by Tsiklon on Sunday February 12, 2023 @01:35PM (#34765430)

Intel’s naming convention on consumer parts is relatively easy to grok, as it’s been much more consistent for the last 12 years than their server/workstation parts.

Breaking both down we have 3 things to take note of:

i5/i7 - indicates relative performance or feature set within a given generation, bigger is generally better

13/7 - the generation of processor

600/700 - where Intel rates a given processor within a generation, this is consistent and doesn’t (to my knowledge) involve overlap between i3/5/7/9 - generally bigger is better.

So i5-13600 is a thirteenth gen i5, type 600. i7-7700 is a seventh gen i7, type 700

Then you get the legion of letter suffixes determining other features, mobile SKUs etc.

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Re:PC CPU Shipments See Steepest Decline in 30 Years by alexklarjr on Sunday February 12, 2023 @07:29PM (#34768712)

Also, “gens” are announcing/releasing during every year, starting 2010, so 7700 was released in 2016 and 13600 at the end of last year. Performance gains are shifting unevenly sometimes there is marginal gains, sometimes (when AMD bites) it is much more. For example i7 2017 is equivalent of i3 from 2020.

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