i3, i5, i7 naming convention

[xaeniac]

Curious as to why you think intel has stuck with this naming convention for so long. Do you feel that they will continue to stick with this naming convention?

 

[ShintaiDK]

They will stick to it. And because it works.

Atoms is now named x3, x5 and x7 for the same reason.

 

[R0H1T]

Now that I think about it I wonder what came first the iPhone or the i7, serious question :hmm:

 

[Smoblikat]

Now that I think about it I wonder what came first the iPhone or the i7, serious question :hmm:

Apple patented invented the letter i, as well as the rectangle.

They are sooooo innovative.

 

[R0H1T]

Apple patented invented the letter i, as well as the rectangle.

They are sooooo innovative.

I think everyone knows that

But seriously I recall one of'em having some effect on the (brand) name of the other, or I'm feeling the early effects of dementia maybe even Alzheimer's D:

 

[ShintaiDK]

Intel used the "i" in front of products ages before Apple. And by ages I mean more than 30 years.

 

[biostud]

Intel used the "i" in front of products ages before Apple. And by ages I mean more than 30 years.

yup

 

[ArisVer]

Apple patented invented the letter i, as well as the rectangle.

They are sooooo innovative.

I thought that was invented by a human some thousands years ago.


How about Celeron, Pentium and Xeon?

 

[sm625]

Now that any new i3 is unequivocally faster than a first gen i7, Intel is probably due for a naming scheme change. The characters before the dash are useless anyway. The i5 or i7 or i3 is coded into the the latter part of the model number which makes it completely useless and pointless outside of marketing. I'm not sure why anyone would be in favor of a factually useless and pointless naming scheme. I'd be happy with a simpler "2500k" or "4790k".

 

[bononos]

I thought that was invented by a human some thousands years ago.

How about Celeron, Pentium and Xeon?

Intel first used the Pentium codename instead of the expected 586 because numbers could not be patented.

 

[MrTeal]

Now that any new i3 is unequivocally faster than a first gen i7, Intel is probably due for a naming scheme change. The characters before the dash are useless anyway. The i5 or i7 or i3 is coded into the the latter part of the model number which makes it completely useless and pointless outside of marketing. I'm not sure why anyone would be in favor of a factually useless and pointless naming scheme. I'd be happy with a simpler "2500k" or "4790k".

If you have all the model numbers memorized, the iX designation isn't really aimed at you. It gives a general performance bracket for people to use within each generation. Even then, the coding changes generation to generation, so the i is still handy. i5-2500k is a 4(4) chip, while the i7-2600k is 4(8). For Haswell, the 46XXK chips are 4(4) i5's. That's desktop parts, Intel's completely screwed up the mobile part naming.

 

[LTC8K6]

Now that any new i3 is unequivocally faster than a first gen i7, Intel is probably due for a naming scheme change. The characters before the dash are useless anyway. The i5 or i7 or i3 is coded into the the latter part of the model number which makes it completely useless and pointless outside of marketing. I'm not sure why anyone would be in favor of a factually useless and pointless naming scheme. I'd be happy with a simpler "2500k" or "4790k".

An i7-970 still seems to keep up okay with an i3-4330 in single threads, and then pulls well ahead with multiple threads, I think.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/157?vs=1192

950:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/100?vs=1192

 

[Railgun]

Now that any new i3 is unequivocally faster than a first gen i7, Intel is probably due for a naming scheme change.

Does that mean the Xeon line needs a rename because an old 3040 is slower than a current gen i5?

 

[cdebbie]

The naming convention may need a refresh due to the improvements the chips have had throughout these years, regardless that an enough computer savvy person can see the differences between a latest i3 and a first gen i3 processor. That's more due to marketing.

 

[svenge]

The Core i3/i5/i7 naming convention isn't broke (and won't be until a hypothetical 10th-gen product hits the market; Skylake is "only" 6th-gen) and as such doesn't need to be fixed.

I'm just glad that Intel's resetting the 3rd-4th digits of the model numbers, as they had kept creeping upwards between generations...

i5-2500K -> i5-3570K -> i5-4670K -> i5-5675C -> i5-6600K
i7-2600K -> i7-3770K -> i7-4770K -> i7-5775C -> i7-6700K