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Introduction Intel® Core™ processor family Pentium® processors Celeron® processors Intel® Xeon® and Itanium® processors
 
Intel® Core™ processors
 
Processor numbers for the Intel® Core™ brands are categorized in 4-digit numerical sequences with an alphabetical prefix. As shown in the example below, this number plus the processor family comprise the overall "processor name".
 
Example
 
Processor Number Nomenclature System
This 5-character identifier captures the power and performance class and features of Intel® Core™ processors. The letter prefix indicates the power and performance class. Within a power and performance class, a higher number indicates more features, including:
New Instructions
Other Intel® technologies*
* As Intel processors evolve and advance, Intel will integrate new feature technologies and capabilities that may increment the processor number.
Note that a higher number processor may have more of one feature and less of another.
 
Power classes
 
Prefixes indicate a range of power or performance type, within which each particular processor's specific power level or performance type resides. Example: a 31W Intel® Core™ Duo processor uses a "T" prefix because 31W falls between 25W and 49W. Prefixes are not intended to indicate form-factor.
Specific power classes and their number sequence:
Processor Number Sequence
Power and Performance Range Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor Intel® Core™2 Quad processor Intel® Core™2 Duo processor Intel® Core™ Duo processor Intel® Core™2 Solo processor Intel® Core™ Solo processor
Extreme
performance
QX6000
X6000
         
Quad-core performance
  Q6000        
TDP >35W
AvP >6W
Idle power >6W
   
E6000
E4000
     
TDP 25-49W
AvP <6W
Idle power <6W
   
T7000
T5000
T2000   T1000
TDP 15-24W
AvP ≤ 2W
Idle power
<6W
    L7000 L2000    
TDP ≤14W
AvP ≤2W
Idle power <6W
    U7000 U2000 U2000 U1000
 
 
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