Over a dozen generations of Intel Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 CPUs have come and gone since then but most consumers are still asking the same kinds of questions. Intel Core i3, Core i5 or Core i7?

That’s the story of the Intel Core i5 and Core i7: two processor lines that, in desktops and laptops alike, give users ample choice in how they compute. That said, you might wonder what makes them ...

Fancy, expensive processors are fun, but for most people who just want to build a decent middle-of-the-road PC for gaming (and anything else), the best advice is usually to buy a Core i5 or Ryzen ...

The Intel Core i7 14700K brings something genuinely new to the table. It offers four more E-cores ... too, as the Core i5 14600K performs incredibly similarly in gaming benchmarks.

Like Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs that came before, Core Ultra 5 and Core Ultra 7 represent different portions of Intel’s CPU stack. Where Core Ultra 3 represents entry-level processors, and Core ...

The rumors were true: Intel is officially killing off the “i” in “Core i9,” “Core i7,” “Core i5,” and “Core i3” — and it won’t broadly refer to its next series of processor ...

But Intel has confirmed that in its upcoming Meteor Lake chips, it’s doing away with the naming scheme entirely. In place of the instantly recognizable Core i3, i5, i7, and i9 brands ...

Concurrently with the i5-14600K, Intel launched the Core i7-14700K and Core i9-14900K. On the horizon are the KF variants of these processors, which align with their K counterparts but lack an ...

The Intel Core i7 13700K is the latest Raptor Lake CPU to land in our lab from the launch lineup, and given that the Core i5 13600K was awesome, we're excited to see how it fares in our benchmarks.

[Editors' Note, Aug 2, 2024: The emergence in mid-2024 of a microcode bug related to voltage has led us, at the moment, to take a wait-and-see stance on recommending any Intel 13th and 14th Gen ...