1.
BY:
ALEEM PASHA N.A
Under the Guidance
Of
Asst.Prof. VENKATA GIRI J
Intel Core i7
Sri Venkateshwara College of Engineering
Department of Computer Science & Engineering

2.
INTRODUCTION
Central Processing Unit(CPU).
Multi-Core CPU.
Hyper Threading.
Cache.

3.
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

4.
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)

5.
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 to
i7-990X
1.17Billion 239mm² 6 6*256KB 12MB

6.
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 to
i7-3970X
1.27 Billion 294mm² 4-6 4*256KB
6*256KB
10-15MB

7.
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)
i7-3770
K,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

8.
Drawbacks Of Previous Generations
Power Hungry.
Generates Heat.
Less number of Transistors.
Less number of Cores.
Smaller L3 cache.
No Support for DDR4 Memory.

9.
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 DIMM
Support
i7-5930K 6 3.5GHz 6*256KB 15MB 140W 4*DDR4-
2133Mhz
i7-5960X 8 3GHz 8*256KB 20MB 140W 8*DDR4-
2133Mhz

10.
Intel Core i7-5960X
i7-5960X
2.60 Billion Transistors, Die size 356mm2

11.
Instruction Set Support
FMA4
SSE4.2
AVX2
AVX
AES-NI
F16C

12.
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.

13.
Comparison of Architectures

14.
Comparison Chart

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IMAGES

16.
Conclusion
This processor is brilliant from multiple
standpoints. It supports new interesting
technologies, such as SMT and Turbo Boost
2.0, and has an integrated memory controller with
unprecedented performance.
Thus Intel Core i7 is the fastest processor using
Haswell microarchitecture and 8 Multi-core
technology that applies processing power where
it's needed most and delivering an incredible
PC performance.

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THANK YOU