
Introducing the New Intel® Core™
i7 Processor
The Intel Core i7 processor is a revolution in
multi-core performance. With faster, intelligent microarchitecture
that applies processing power dynamically when needed most, the new
Intel Core i7 processors deliver an incredible breakthrough in PC
performance. They’re the some of the best desktop processors on the
planet.
For whatever you do, Intel Core i7 processors ensure that you will
experience maximum computing performance. The combination of Intel
Turbo Boost Technology and Intel Hyper-Threading Technology delivers
maximum performance for demanding workloads.
A Smarter Way to Work and Play
Whether you’re casually checking e-mail and surfing
the Web or multitasking compute-intensive applications such as HD
video encoding, you want a processor that enables maximum PC
performance. With the Intel Core i7 processor, you’ll get just that.
An unprecedented four-core, eight-thread design with Intel
Hyper-Threading Technology ensures incredible performance, no matter
what your computing needs. Double the memory bandwidth provides
faster memory access, so you’ll achieve more while waiting less.
Shatter Your Limits
It’s time for digital content creation that’s
limited only by your imagination. Experience total creative freedom
with the power to encode video up to 40% faster. Enjoy incredible
performance on other multimedia tasks like image rendering, photo
retouching, and editing.
Breakaway Performance for Digital
Content Creation
Take digital content creation to a whole new level
with the Intel Core i7 processor Extreme Edition. Enjoy up to 79%
faster video encoding and up to 46% faster image rendering for
incredible performance photo retouching and photo editing.
Gear Up for Extreme Processing
Power
Unique Intel Turbo Boost Technology dynamically
accelerates performance to match your workload and optimize speed
for demanding applications. New performance-maximized memory access
technologies work together to reduce latency and more than double
memory bandwidth for faster memory access. Achieve up to 25% faster
multitasking performance by handling multiple applications
simultaneously so you experience less wait time. The Intel Core i7
processor Extreme Edition offers unprecedented bandwidth and memory
performance, including an integrated memory controller with 3
channels of DDR3, 2 DIMMs per channel, and up to 25.6 GB/s bandwidth
for DDR3 1066 MHz.
Features and Benefits of the New
Intel Core i7 Processor
| Feature |
Benefit |
| Quad-Core Processing |
Four dedicated, independent processing cores in one
package help operating systems and applications deliver
additional performance, enabling end users to experience
better multitasking and multithreaded performance across
diverse applications and workloads. |
| Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology |
Delivers two processing threads per physical core for a
total of eight threads for massive computational throughput.
With Intel Hyper-Threading Technology, highly threaded
applications can perform more work in parallel, completing
tasks sooner, and freeing users to do more with less wait
time.
|
| Intel® Turbo Boost Technology |
Dynamically increases the processor’s frequency when
needed by taking advantage of thermal and power headroom.
Get more performance automatically, when you need it the
most. |
| 8 MB Intel® Smart Cache |
This large last-level cache enables dynamic and
efficient allocation of shared cache to all four cores to
match the needs of various applications for ultra-efficient
data storage and manipulation. |
| Intel® QuickPath Interconnect |
Intel’s latest system interconnect design increases
bandwidth and lowers latency, while achieving data transfer
speeds as high as 25.6 GB/s. |
| Integrated Memory Controller |
An integrated memory controller with three channels of
DDR3 1066 MHz offers memory performance up to 25.6 GB/s.
Combined with the processor’s efficient prefetching
algorithms, this memory controller’s lower latency and
higher memory bandwidth delivers amazing performance for
data-intensive applications. |
| Intel® HD Boost |
Includes the full SSE4 instruction set, significantly
improving a broad range of multimedia and compute-intensive
applications. |
| Digital Thermal Sensor (DTS) |
Provides for more efficient processor and platform
thermal control, improving system acoustics. By continuously
measuring the temperature at each processing core, DTS can
detect variations in processor temperature and dynamically
enable system fans to spin only as fast as needed to cool
the system. Potential benefits include significantly quieter
operation. |
| Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution |
Improves execution speed and efficiency, delivering more
instructions per clock cycle. Each core can complete up to
four full instructions simultaneously.
|
| Intel® Smart Memory Access |
Improves system performance by optimizing the use of the
available data bandwidth from the memory subsystem and
reducing the effective latency of memory accesses. |