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long time Techquickie viewer you know that we've had reservations about CPU
naming schemes for a long time Intel named a CPU lineup core 2
even though some of those chips had four cores
then they gave us core 3 core i5 and
core i7 despite the fact that they don't make any
processors in any of those lines with an
odd number of cores and then this scheme was subsequently copied by AMD for its
new ryzen series and between you and me i've always
thought that celeron sounds more like a villain from a bee
movie about eating vegetables
now Intel is throwing precious metals into the mix now to be fair they are
actually used in processor manufacturing but that doesn't help us understand what
exactly it is we're buying so let's demystify the recently released pentium
gold and pentium silver chips from Intel
for starters pentium gold doesn't mean
that Intel has souped up a lower tier chip to be one of the most powerful
products ever i mean think about how easy it is to get
a gold credit card these days pentium gold is basically a rebranding strategy
for their standard desktop grade pentium cpus starting with the kaby lake
generation and since these gold chips are just
rebranded the good news is that you won't need any kind of special new
socket or motherboard to use them one cool thing is that pentium gold cpus
do feature hyper threading making them more like what core i3s were not too
long ago where things start to get a little less
clear is when we get into the pentium silver lineup the name suggests that
it's kind of like a less nice version of gold but it's actually a really
different product silver chips aren't available in boxes from your favorite
online stores rather they are lower power chips primarily designed for the
mobile segment where battery life is far more important than peak performance and
although some pentium silvers will be desktop variants with slightly higher
tdps they all use bga sockets meaning
that they get soldered onto the motherboard rather than being removable
by the user they also use very different micro architectures while pentium gold will
continue to use normal desktop architectures like kaby
lake silver cpus are built around low power
designs similar to what you'd see in Intel atom processors in compact and
mobile gadgets however one thing that is interesting
about pentium silver is that it will support hevc and vp9 video at 4k these
are compression standards that can deliver high quality video with less
data and with netflix using vp9 a pentium silver could be helpful if
you're fighting battery life or bandwidth limits on mobile
if you aren't silver also supports 160
megahertz wide wi-fi channels and while channels this wide can actually
sometimes cause or be susceptible to interference they can enable faster
speeds if your router is up to scratch though this is also true of the slightly
lower end celeron chips that are essentially the same but have lower
clock speeds or fewer cores so yeah i mean the features are kind of
cool but i'm not sure that Intel really clarified anything for us consumers by
naming their wares after metals especially considering they recently did
the same thing with the server grade xeon chips and that just ended up
confusing everyone too hopefully though this clears things up
enough for now and Intel won't decide to throw iridium
titanium and plutonium into the mix anytime soon which
yeah i should just probably stop giving them ideas
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