BY: ALEEM PASHA N.A

Under the Guidance

Of

Asst.Prof. VENKATA GIRI J

Intel Core i7Sri Venkateshwara College of Engineering

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

INTRODUCTION

Central Processing Unit(CPU).

Multi-Core CPU.

Hyper Threading.

Cache.

Evolution of Microprocessors

Intel 4004 4bit 1971

Intel 8086 16bit 1978

Intel 80386 32bit 1985

Intel Pentium 32/64bit 1995-06

Intel core 2 32/64bit 2007

Intel Core i3,i5,i7 64bit 2009

Existing Intel Core i7 Technology

Nehalem microarchitecture (1st generation)

Bloomfield (45 nm)

Lynnfield (45 nm)

Gulftown (32 nm)

Sandy Bridge microarchitecture (2ndgeneration)

Sandy Bridge(32 nm)

Sandy Bridge-E(32 nm)

Ivy Bridge microarchitecture (3rd generation)

Ivy Bridge(22 nm)

Ivy Bridge-E (22 nm)

Intel Core i7 (1st generation)

Nehalem microarchitecture: Hyper-threading, Turbo

Boost, Smart Cache.Type series Transistors Die size Cores L2 cache L3 cache

Bloomfield (45 nm)

i7-920 to i7-965E

731 Million 263 mm² 4 4*256KB 8MB

Lynnfield (45 nm)

i7-860 to i7-870s

774 Million 296 mm² 4 4*256KB 8MB

Gulftown (32 nm)

i7-970 toi7-990X

1.17Billion 239mm² 6 6*256KB 12MB

Intel Core i7 (2nd generation)

Sandy Bridge microarchitecture:Smart Cache, Intel

HD Graphics 2000,3000,4-DDR3-1600mhz

Type Series Transistors Die size Cores L2 cache L3 cache

Sandy

Bridge

(32 nm)

i7-2600,i7-2700

1.16 Billion 216 mm² 4 4*256KB 8MB

Sandy

Bridge-E

(32 nm)

i7-3820 toi7-3970X

1.27 Billion 294mm² 4-6 4*256KB6*256KB

10-15MB

Intel Core i7 (3rd generation)

Ivy Bridge microarchitecture: Turbo Boost 2.0, Intel

HD Graphics 4000, support upto 8 DDR3-1600mhz

Type Series Transistors Die size Cores L2 cache L3 cache

Ivy Bridge

(22 nm)

i7-3770K,S,T

1.4 Billion 160 mm² 4 4*256KB 8MB

Ivy Bridge-

E

(22 nm)

i7-4820k,i7-4930k,i7-4960X

1.86 Billion 256.5 mm² 4-6 4*256KB 10-15MB

Drawbacks Of Previous Generations

Power Hungry.

Generates Heat.

Less number of Transistors.

Less number of Cores.

Smaller L3 cache.

No Support for DDR4 Memory.

Updated Technology

Intel core i7 (4th Generation)

Haswell microarchitecture: Enhanced Intel SpeedStep

Technology (EIST), Intel HD Graphics 5200.

Haswell-E(22 nm)

Model Cores Frequency L2 cache L3 cache Power DIMMSupport

i7-5930K 6 3.5GHz 6*256KB 15MB 140W 4*DDR4-2133Mhz

i7-5960X 8 3GHz 8*256KB 20MB 140W 8*DDR4-2133Mhz

Intel Core i7-5960X

i7-5960X

2.60 Billion Transistors, Die size 356mm2

Instruction Set Support

FMA4

SSE4.2

AVX2

AVX

AES-NI

F16C

Advantages of 4th Generation

Great Performance.

Less Power Consumption.

More Number of Cores.

Larger L3 Cache.

New Instructions sets.

Support for new DDR4 Memory.

Generates less heat at base frequency.

Comparison of Architectures

Comparison Chart

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Conclusion

This processor is brilliant from multiplestandpoints. It supports new interestingtechnologies, such as SMT and Turbo Boost2.0, and has an integrated memory controller withunprecedented performance.

Thus Intel Core i7 is the fastest processor usingHaswell microarchitecture and 8 Multi-coretechnology that applies processing power whereit's needed most and delivering an incredible

PC performance.

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