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so we've done a number of videos here on Techquickie explaining the alphabet
soup that you have to slurp down in order to understand exactly what it is
you're buying when you go shopping for electronics and perhaps no company has
been more guilty of throwing seemingly random letters at product names than
Intel so while it might not be too hard to understand the difference between a
core i3 and a core i5 you know bigger
number is better as a general rule if
you've ever looked at a product page or a spec sheet for a laptop or even some
desktops you've probably noticed that sometimes there are letters attached to
the end of the CPU model numbers too what are those for
well as it turns out these letters aren't just random characters that Intel
threw in they actually have real meanings that tell you something about
the processor unfortunately there are so many of them
that it can feel like you're trying to crack the da vinci code just to figure
out what your CPU was designed to do but fear not Techquickie is here to
demystify what they all mean starting with the one you're probably most
familiar with already k
k means that a chip's multiplier is
unlocked meaning that it can be easily overclocked if you have a similarly
enabled motherboard non-k chips have very limited
overclocking functionality so make sure you look for that k if you want to tweak
your system by the way Intel doesn't talk about it
as much but the k in hk cpus that you
occasionally see in high-end laptops also means the same thing
speaking of which let's move on to h then which officially stands for high
performance graphics and is used to designate Intel's higher end offerings
in the mobile segment that consume more power and here's another mobile specific
one many of those higher power chips also
have a q on the end this is for quad
core so that's why you'll often see hq
on more expensive laptops it is not a
subliminal message intended to make you think that Intel notebooks are high
quality or is it
anyway the other letters that you're likely to see on mobile chips are you
and why with you standing for ultra low
power and y meaning
yeah um extremely low power
why not e for extremely oh that's right
because e was used to designate chips that support ecc memory so
for better or for worse you and y chips
are what you'll see in laptops and other mobile devices where the focus is more
on saving battery life than on performance with some y series cpus
having tdps of under 5 watts
now it bears noting that Intel has an m
suffix to make it clear that a chip is mobile but currently it's only being
used on xeon chips for mobile workstations
now let's kick things back over to desktop land we'll start with the letter
t this feels like an episode of sesame street these processors still fit in a
standard lga desktop socket but they are
low power so you'll often see them in small form factor or all-in-one
computers that are designed with smaller power supplies or less aggressive
cooling other letters can indicate some interesting graphics options so if you
see a chip with a p on the end this indicates a desktop processor without
integrated graphics which can save you a few bucks if you're planning to use a
discrete video card anyway while the newer g cpus feature Radeon rx vega
graphics that are built in from none other than Intel's biggest rival AMD
sorry excuse me i mean their total non-competitor Radeon technologies
group which is a totally different company now of course we'd be remiss if
we didn't give a quick shout out to r and c which we last saw on the now
several generations old broadwell line to designate a soldered on CPU and then
an unlocked desktop CPU respectively
i don't know what the point of c instead of k was but you know what it doesn't
matter it's over now let's finish this up then with the most
dramatic letter of all x
this indicates a very high end unlocked
consumer CPU with the most cores and the
highest prices and it's currently sitting atop the pile in the core i9
7980xc for extreme
edition not to be confused with e for ecc memory
like i mentioned earlier so in summary then
maybe Intel could do a better job of making these things simpler and more
consistent for consumers but at least to their credit someone
over there recognized the problem and spearheaded the creation of this lengthy
website to help people decipher their ever shifting meanings we're going to
have that linked below so you can find the latest updates
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