Harnessing Intel’s Performance Hybrid Architecture

Intel’s: Introducing a groundbreaking era of processors that seamlessly integrates Intel’s performance hybrid architecture to elevate your gaming, content creation, and productivity experiences. This innovative generation provides a unique blend of Performance-cores, Efficient-cores, and Intel® Thread Director2, ensuring optimal performance for any task. Backed by a robust suite of tuning and overclocking tools, these processors redefine flexibility and supercharge your CPU performance.

Platform Versatility and Compatibility

Supporting the Intel® 700 series chipsets and maintaining compatibility with the Intel® 600 series chipsets, these processors offer a gateway to a myriad of features essential for diverse tasks. Whether you’re working, streaming, gaming, or creating, Intel® Core desktop processors promise an immersive experience tailored to your needs.

Extended Core Technology: Elevating Performance

Intel’s: The Intel® Core desktop processors boast a Performance Hybrid Architecture1 that merges two core microarchitectures within a single processor die. With up to 24 cores (8 Performance-cores and 16 Efficient-cores) and up to 32 threads, these processors deliver exceptional performance. The Intel® Core i9 processor P-cores can reach a staggering 6.0 GHz with Intel® Thermal Velocity Boost3 4, providing an unparalleled performance boost. The Intel® Core i7 processor Efficient-cores have been expanded, offering up to 20 cores (8 P-cores + 12 E-cores) and 28 threads, catering to demanding multitasking workloads. Advanced technologies such as Intel® Dynamic Tuning Technology, Intel® Turbo Boost Max 3.0 Technology3, Intel® Thermal Velocity Boost3 4, Intel® Adaptive Boost3 4, and more are embedded in these processors.

Immersive Experiences: Beyond the Ordinary

Intel® Core desktop processors bring a plethora of enhancements for immersive experiences. Whether you are interested in overclocking, graphics technologies, or connectivity features, these processors deliver. Overclocking tools like Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility5, Intel® Extreme Memory Profile5, and Intel® Dynamic Memory Boost5 6 provide intelligent overclocking performance for both experts and new users. The graphics technologies, featuring Intel® Ultra-High-Definition Graphics with Xe architecture7, support up to four concurrent DDI ports, 8K HDR, and enhanced media support7. The support for discrete Intel® Wi-Fi 7 (5 Gig) and Bluetooth LE Audio further enhances connectivity, ensuring a seamless and responsive user experience.

Accelerating Platform Innovation: Future-Ready Flexibility

Designed for industry-leading technology and platform flexibility, these processors offer compatibility with Intel® 600 and 700 series chipset-based motherboards8. This flexibility allows users to upgrade without compromising on performance or features. The platform supports DDR5 with speeds up to 5600 MT/s, providing high bandwidth and enhanced productivity. Continuing support for DDR4 up to 3200 MT/s ensures compatibility. The platform boasts up to 16 PCIe 5.0 lanes9 for high-speed GPU, SSD, or other add-in cards, along with up to 20 PCIe 4.0 lanes and up to 8 DMI 4.0 lanes for fast component communication. Discrete Thunderbolt™ 4 technology supports accessories with up to 40 Gbps bandwidth.

Intel® Core Desktop Processors: Features at a Glance

Feature Benefit

Performance-core (P-core) The highest-performing CPU core ever built by Intel, designed for single-threaded, lightly threaded, or burst workloads.
Efficient-core (E-core) Designed to handle multi-threaded and background tasks, allowing P-cores to deliver exceptional performance without interruption.
Performance Hybrid Architecture1 Integrates two core microarchitectures into a single die, optimizing workload distribution for peak performance.
Intel® Thread Director2 Optimizes workloads by intelligently distributing them to the optimal cores.
PCIe 5.02 up to 16 Lanes Provides readiness for up to 32 GT/s for fast access to discrete graphics, storage, and peripheral devices with up to 16 PCI Express 5.0 lanes.

Intel® Core Desktop Processors Comparison

Spec	Intel® Core™ i9K and i9KF	Intel® Core™ i7K and i7KF	Intel® Core™ i5K and i5KF
Max Turbo Frequency [GHz]	Up to 6.0	Up to 5.6	Up to 5.3
Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 Frequency [GHz]	Up to 5.8	Up to 5.6	N/A
Performance-core Max Turbo Frequency [GHz]	Up to 5.6	Up to 5.5	Up to 5.3
Efficient-core Max Turbo Frequency [GHz]	Up to 4.4	Up to 4.3	Up to 4.0
Processor Cores (P-cores + E-cores)	24 (8P + 16E)	20 (8P + 12E)	14 (6P + 8E)

Notices & Disclaimers

Performance varies by use, configuration, and other factors. Learn more on the Performance Index site.
Performance results are based on testing as of dates shown in configurations and may not reflect all publicly available updates. See backup for configuration details. No product or component can be absolutely secure.
Your costs and results may vary.
Intel technologies may require enabled hardware, software, or service activation.

Product and Performance Information

Performance hybrid architecture combines two core microarchitectures, Performance-cores (P-cores) and Efficient-cores (E-cores), on a single processor die first introduced on 12th Gen Intel® Core™ processors. Select 12th Gen and newer Intel® Core™ processors do not have performance hybrid architecture, only P-cores or E-cores, and may have the same cache size. See ark.intel.com for SKU details, including cache size and core frequency.
Built into the hardware, Intel® Thread Director is provided only in performance hybrid architecture configurations of 12th Gen or newer Intel® Core™ processors; OS enablement is required. Available features and functionality vary by OS.
Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology, Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0, and Intel® Thermal Velocity Boost are only available on Performance-cores.
Intel® Core™ i9 desktop processors (14th gen) only.
Unlocked features are present with select chipsets and processor combinations. Altering clock frequency or voltage may void any product warranties and reduce stability, security, performance, and life of the processor and other components. Check with system and component manufacturers for details.
Intel® Dynamic Memory Boost enablement capability requires BIOS selection of the feature, a compatible Intel® Core™ desktop processor, a compatible motherboard with BIOS support for the feature, and XMP certified DDR4 or DDR5 main system memory.
Available only on Intel® Core™ processors (14th gen) featuring integrated graphics.
Check motherboard vendor for compatible BIOS.
CPU PCIe lanes are only validated for discrete graphics (x16) and PCIe storage.
On select processor SKUs. DDR5-5600 MT/s 1DPC UDIMM 1Rx8, 1Rx16 (lead supplier) and DDR5-5200 1Rx8, 1Rx16, 2Rx8 are POR on all Intel® Core™ i9 desktop processor SKUs, all Intel® Core™ i7 desktop processor SKUs, and select Intel® Core™ i5 desktop processor SKUs (14th gen).