Intel processors in recent years several generations of product specifications rapidly improved, each generation can step to a new level, such as the recent full release of the 9th generation core, both desktop and notebook have reached a new level, i9-9980hk even to the game book brought 8 core 16 threads and 5GHz frequency.
In fact, many people may not have noticed, on the desktop 9 generation core i3 also quietly unlock a new skill, has been open to support the core frequency acceleration technology, plus four core four threads, has been equivalent to the i5.
The i3 series was still dual-core quad-threaded in the seventh generation, on both desktops and laptops.Eight generations upgrade to four core four threads on the desktop, the notebook is still double core four threads, but open core frequency acceleration, and the desktop became four core four threads.
The i3 in the core family of the 9th generation has no mobile version, but only eight desktop versions, all of which are still four cores and four threads, but all of them support risband acceleration, the benchmark frequency is still in the range of 3.1-4.0ghz, but seven of them can be risband acceleration of 600MHz up to 3.7-4.6ghz, i3-9320 can be risband acceleration of 700MHz up to 4.4ghz.
At this point, the core i9/i7/i5/i3 series has all support ruifan, only pentium and cy young do not support, perhaps in the future will also open perhaps.
On the other hand, in terms of price, the top-end i5-7600k 3.8-4.2ghz of the six-generation i5 series cost $242. Now the top-end i3-9350k 4.0-4.6ghz of the i3 series costs only $173.