Intel CPU Letters Explained 

X for expensive

Linus: No other company than Intel seemingly throws random Alphabets to their products Sony: WHXB900N

F - processor does not have integrated graphics. For example: Core i5-9400F Core i7-9700KF

The thumbnail looks like every reply from my girlfriend.

tldw: K = unlocked multiplier H = high performance graphics Q = quad core U = ultra low power Y = extremely low power E = ECC memory M = mobile T = low power, but still LGA P = no integrated graphics G = RX Vega graphics *broadwell only (5xxx):* R = high-end mobile, similar to H (but soldered on?) C = unlocked = K *as of x299/skylake-x:* X = HEDT platform _also note_ : i9-7980XE is not X+E, it just means "xtreme edition"

I love how "Y" refers to extremely low power. It's like Intel is asking, "but y tho?"

Press F to pay respect for this video.

"Bigger numbers are better" RAM Latency: "Im about to ruin this man's whole career"

i7-7500U Intel 7 - 7500 Useless

Let's finish this up with the most dramatic letter of all... T for tunnelbear a free VPN...

Letter time chart K 1:20 H 1:54 U 2:33 Y 2:36 E 2:47 M 3:10 T 3:24 P 3:47 G 3:58 R 4:20 C 4:20 X 4:39

K for Potassium

This video was brought to you by the letter i, for ifixit. Missed opportunity. :/

Me:*puts all my feelings into a text* Her: 1:23

"No other company has been more guilty of throwing seemingly random letters to their product names than Intel" HP: hold my 15-ek0040tx

Me before watching this video: "what does this mean?" Me after watching this video: "what does this mean?"

"K" means, I have read your long as message, but your not worthy of a full reply.

It does feel like an episode from sesame street.

G: that moment when rivals work together to make a fantastic processor

My friends dad was actually the one responsible for the K on intel cpus. I’ll ask him to apologize next time I see him

4:33 The Broadwell C/R chips are actually quite special (and honestly deserved for attention than they got). The C-chips (i5-5675C and i7-5775C) were the only socketed chips with Crystalwell (embedded L4 cache/VRAM for a respectable iGPU) and were also unlocked. The R-chips were the BGA variants of the same. The iGPU of those chips (Iris Pro) rivaled a GTX 750, IIRC.

They forgot one "S" denotes "performance optimised lifestyle" which may relate to the addition of embedded options being available vs not being on the standard chips. Also generally these chips have a lower base clock but have the same boost clock as their normal chip counterparts.

4:04 Intel + AMD = ???????

Thank you Linus for making these videos! It's been more than one and a half decade since I had a desktop, and wathcing your videos in the past few years, along with Luke's, Jay's, Paul's and Dmitri's is what gave me the knowledge and motivation to finally build one completely on my own. I just ordered the parts yesterday and can't wait to start. Keep doing what you're doing! Greetings from Hungary! TT

A man comes into a library Man: Do you have a book about small penises Worker: I don't think it's in yet Man: Yes, that one

Intel graphics ? High performance graphics ? Error 404, performance graphics not found.

2:32 THIS IS WHAT MY PARENTS QUESTION EVERY DAY

I absolutely love the way this guy throws around hand/arm motions. They say 90% of communication is body language, this guy kicks that up to 99.9%.

I have that iFixit kit and I’ve used it nearly every day at work since I bought it :) By the way, very good rundown on the meaning of those letters! I’ll take those into consideration when I make my next purchase:)

You missed S

I love these short little videos from him

I have been looking for this! Thank you.

Thank you so much for this explanation of part of their chip naming. Intel Chip Naming is a Big Box of Tangled String Intel has different Cores i3, i5, i7, i9, and Xeon. Each one of those has at least 10 different versions of it. They use a bunch of 5 digit numbers that are not always in order. They have like 11 different "Architectures", roughly one per year. Each Architecture has its own name. All of the architectures either look similar or sound similar, like Lake, or Coffee, or Skylake, or Bridge, on and on. There are like 11 "Generations". There are varying number of Cores, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 etc Some of the chips are for Desktop, some for Mobile, some are Embedded. Each and every dimension that I've listed so far, can be intermixed, intermingled, intertwined with every other dimension I've listed so far. Plus there's a lot of factors that I haven't mentioned. Wikipedia has a ton of information, but it's like jumping into the ocean and trying to write down the names of all the fish you see. Intel has a lot of lists on its website too. I've copied dozens of files, I've created 5 subdirectories, ~30 files, and many many hyperlinks connecting those files together. I have been working for 4 to 10 hours per session, for at least 3 sessions trying to figure all of this stuff out. I think that Intel is intentionally trying obfuscate/confuse/befuddle the outsiders, so that they cannot make an intelligent decision, and instead just have to rely on the marketing hype. THIS IS RIDICULOUS !!!!!! They should name their Chips as follows: Year, Month, Day, # of Cores, Base Clock Speed, Architecture, Familiar name. Then they should have an easy-to-access webpage where people can look up all of the detailed information about that chip from their website. Examples (made-up): Intel 2021.04.08, 8 Core, 3.8 MHz, Cypress Cove, Invigerator, or Intel 2020.11.05, 6 Core, 3.4 MHz, Comet Lake, Leveller Upper, or Intel 2017.06.23, 4 Core, 2.9 MHz, Kaby Lake, Monster Killer, or whatever

2:27 vsauce music plays

Thank you for the information the link you gave really helped

It's been exactly 1year since this came out

3:56 Linus: While the newer 'G' CPU's... *pauses video* Me: Wait a second... *clicks search and types 'dxdiag'*

Average viewer: Linus: "below so you can find the latest updates. SPEAKING OF THE LATEST UPDATES" *Pauses*

You have been doing this for a long long time mate I remember you from years back. By the way ! Your good at your job .

Had my volume up all the way without knowing, intro blasted my ears

For more confusion, "E" has been very rarely used... plenty of Celerons and Pentiums (and Haswell and earlier i3s) support ECC memory as long as they're used with an appropriate motherboard chipset. And of course they don't stick "E" on the Xeon model numbers, ECC support there is a given.

didnt u forget 'S' ? there are some intel with a S at the end for i think low power then the non S ? like this one i5 3340s

What a presentation! Subscribed!

You need to have iFixit make a special LTT "I break it" edition kit. It would sell out.

But Linus, I've got one question for you, 0:50

poor Linus. need a band-aid for the scratch on your right arm?

Thank you for making this video, this helped me to see what laptop i'll buy:)

k: overclocking enabled H: high power and performance, optimized for mobile U: low power, for mobile Y: ultra low power (usually for laptops) (but y tho), not recommended for gaming E: Embedded T: low power for desktops, usually in all in one pcs P: less powerful integrated graphics, its cheaper and meant for people who only use their igpu for troubleshooting F: no integrated graphics G: Amd's rx vega graphics built in, branded as radeon technologies group X: means extreme series, also unlocked (x for xpensive?) *Special* *letters* *for* *Broadwell:* R: fits in BGA sockets C: same as K edits: M: mobile (QM is quad core mobile) Q: quad core S: special edition also you can have quad core without Q, even alot of U series cpus have 4core now usually letters can be mixed together and mean both of the two things, (with the one exception of XE, which means higher core count variant of the cpu)

every time i watch linus videos, i learn new stuff, thank you linus. :) god bless you.

I have never once thought HQ stood for "high quality".. for some reason it always made me think "Headquarters" tho...? lol

Thanks for posting this video I found it very helpful. Is give me some clue of what to purchase in the future. :)

My first time coming across this channel... I just love the guy's playful energy

I love the thumbnail. Perfect reaction image for when someone says something that is complete rubbish and want to be snarky about dismissing their opinion

Hey can you please make a video about PCIe lanes? Mostly in intel since its so very confusing. For me at least an owner of 7700K their website says that I have 16 pcie lanes however my motherboard can offer more for like m.2 ssds and such, i have only understood this after a lot of research and in my opinion this should be a lot clearer to your average bob. so it could really help if you guys made a video about this.

Thanks for the information Linus.

i needed this

*"Speaking of latest updates... Tunnel Bear!"*

What about S? Some Sandy bridge and Ivy Bridge CPUs have an S variant of their chips

2:25 lol I have always thought that it means high quality until this video. By the way thanks for the explanation :)

Great video. Thank you!!

0:34 even for my bmi? aww thanks

C for cox

I literally had an ad with Linus in it before the video

Video theme: CPU terminology Linus: hmmm... Seems like sesame Street

Thumbnail: K Me: Potassium

I have an i5 7500 i don't know what you're talkin about

Weird, I'm seeing that M very commonly actually, from what I can recall. For example in Lenovo ThinkPads and business models from other manufacturers.

Really good channel

My favorite part was when he said this feels like Sesame Street🤣

Now I know my abc’s next time won’t you sing with me

Great video, man. I know this video has been years, but could you give me some recommendations abt a good & budget-friendly processor fit for mid range gaming and multitasking/editing at the same time? Say I have RTX 3060 or 2060

4:05 Techquickie is regretting these lines of text.

This video should be named learning alphabet with intel.

"Bigger numbers are usually better!" Ping be like: ;)

Channel: Techquickie Shirt: Linustechtips

Question: Is there any utility (or DOS command) that can give the Serial Number of an INTEL or AMD Microprossessor? It seems that too many people interpret CPU to mean the Tag Number of the computer -- in the case of Dell or similar SN for other brands. What I need is the serial number of the PROCESSOR, like an i3-2120 or i5-2400 or i7-2600. Besides the numbers that are stamped or engraved onto the chip, how else can I keep a record of the CPUs that I sell or purchase? I have used CPU-Z, Intel Identification Utility, System Information,. CMD prompt, etc., but have never found a serial number, unless I have the box it came in when it was new. Any help would be appreciated greatly! Thanks in advance!

Intel cpu letters simplified: U=worse than it seems for the generation F=doesn't have integrated graphics K=overclockable M=mobile S=slightly worse than the non s cpu (kinda like 8800 gt and 8800 gts) That's all the ones I can remember

"Please make a video about "Processor VS Microprocessor

The m wasnt exclusively used for xeon. The intel i3-2330m was a laptop chip mainly used in the Hp probook 4530s This m did stand for mobile It also used intels “Intel 3000 graphics m or mobile” integrated graphics

This is really interesting. He is using linustechtips merch on the Techquickie account...

And I thought IUPAC naming was difficult

Hi you forgot S

3:17 Intel used the M suffix on laptop CPU too I had an Asus laptop with an i3-2350M

Also , for laptop processors , M means the processor has PGA socket and U means the processor has BGA . Nowadays most of the laptops use BGA , so U is mostly seen on low to mid range laptops..

I can't find a single processor with the "p"

3:20 Me, having a Intel Core i5-4300M in my pc: Well actually...

Still useful video 2 years later

This is what I needed

the thumbnail: k

1:12 my parents be like

Hello , I have a question on the parts , do processor and the motherboard comes with different specs with relation to the region such Middle East VS US ? I mean by this do different regions have different specs like cars for example?

just watched a it managemet ad with you in it

0:34 There is a huge scratch on ur arm💪

Intel after this video: Damnit he figured it out :(

u didnt mention T series.The "T" means the chips is designed to use less power while also having less performance than the standard chips without any letters and i found out they are no graphic built-in processors which no one mentions it.

Thanks. Whenever I check out updates for newer models of possible future purchases. I see all these chick scratch terminology on newer processors that I don’t understand. Now you can do a video on all these newer MacBook Pro processors. With terminology I don’t get. 🤪

C = Iris Pro...

i laughed alot when you coughed, "amd vs intel"😂😂😂😂😂

0:48 The example CPU, Intel Core i7 7500u, is the CPU in my laptop but it is the previous generation.

How many suffixes does there need to be ? I remember when all you needed to know was that "SX was for Sucks", and "DX was for Does Extra" for the processors.