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. Pentium M and Celeron M for mobile devices.Let me list down all the major processor models released by Intel. I will write another article about these later as it requires a lot of discussions. 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.

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