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Is this somehow worse than having to know that a Core i7 could be a Skylake, Comet Lake, Ice Lake... or maybe it's a Lakefield? Oh nope the latest Lake is... an
by neogodless 6y ago
Is this somehow worse than having to know that a Core i7 could be a Skylake, Comet Lake, Ice Lake... or maybe it's a Lakefield? Oh nope the latest Lake is... an unrelated hybrid chip. And Comet Lake is Skylake. One of the Skylakes. I think. There's also Skylake-X.
But wait, that's just one of the confusions of Intel chips. Do they not also have workstation chips... and server chips... which are both called Xeon?
But... what about Core i5/i7/i9 vPro you say? Sorry yeah I forgot those were a thing. (And Intel still sells Pentium and Celeron... and apparently maybe still Atom and Itanium... https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors.... )
I don't know if Intel or AMD are doing this stuff with intention to confuse, inform or just market. AMD has mixed generations between CPU, APU and mobile APU (Zen 2 as 3xxx desktop CPU but 4xxx APUs for example)... but I would definitely say the product lines are pretty clear.
EPYC - Servers
Threadripper/Pro - Workstations
Ryzen - Consumer