How many cores are actually in a 'core i5'

None of the currently available Intel CPUs have graphics on die. That is planned, but currently unavailable. From what I can tell, i5 CPUs are those which have 4 threads. This means they are either 4 cores without SMT (1 thread per core) or dual cores with SMT (2 threads per core). Currently, the i5-750 is the only i5 available, and it is a quad core without SMT.

What he said. The i5-7xx processors are four cores, four threads. From what I gather from branding rumors, i5-6xx will be two cores, four threads + graphics.

I also think there will be a i5 with 4 CPU cores and 8 threads. Or will they retain that for Cire i7 LGA1366.

Core i7 on 1156 also has 4 cores and HT (8-threads). The Havendale I believe will have the GPU on die. 1155 chipset?

Core i7 / Core i5 = Four CPU cores only:

from this article

Future un-named CPU in the Westmere family will have the CPU and GPU in the CPU package:

I think the naming system is based on number of threads. i3 = 2 threads, i5 = 4 threads (whether via a dual with SMT or a quad without), i7=8 threads, and possibly i9=12 threads.

After that you'll have SandyBridge which will have the GPU on the same silicon as the CPUs:

SO then Core i13 would mean 16 threads? Or Core i14..... Man this will hurt my head....



Interesting. So I think its going to have the GPU connected to the L3 as well/. Wounder what that will do for it.

Who knows. Maybe they'll abandon that naming system before that would happen...

That wouldn't work, I3 is a dual core with HT to enable 4 threads.

That would mean no distinction between i5 and i7.

Rumor has it the next series will be called "Cores-a-Plenty"  

AMD has their "Magny-Cours Multiprocessor" or MCM as I like to call it.

"Mangy~Cur?"

I'm pretty sure that i3 is a dual without SM, with only 2 threads, and that duals with SMT enabled would be branded as i5.

i3, i5 and i7 are replacing Celeron, Pentium and C2D/C2Q. Basically i3 are entry level CPUs, i5 are mainstream parts and i7 performance/enthusiast. It's more about 'branding' than how many cores or threads.

The Pentium brand stays, below i3.

Surprised they don't call it an aye-aye, as in "Aye-aye, 3 bags full Sir!"  .

OTOH, AMD already beat Intel to the last level - they have the 'eye-finity'  .

For our dear friend jennyh, I'd suggest a specially branded CPU - the X-eye-X (a Crossfired i-core, or cross-eye for short  )

 



Well for the Core I(x) it would be odd numbers. i5 i7 i9 i11 i13 ect.

cores/ht

i5: 4/4
i7: 4/8
i9: 6/12
(if they continue this trend then it should go like this)
i11:8/16
i13 10/20
Ect.

cant say it hurts may head.

Yeh, and if you get a dual socket mobo and stick an i7 and an i11 in a Hordirc Cube, you get a puppy

It would be i5, i7, i9, iB, and iD if we were consistent with our inner computer nerd.