Intel® Core™ i7 processor

Intel® Core™ i7 processor
Brilliantly fast


With faster, intelligent, multi-core technology that applies processing power where it's needed most, new Intel® Core™ i7 processors deliver an incredible breakthrough in PC performance. They are the best desktop processors on the planet.¹

You'll multitask applications faster and unleash incredible digital media creation. And you'll experience maximum performance for everything you do, thanks to the combination of Intel® Turbo Boost technology² and Intel® Hyper-Threading technology (Intel® HT technology)³, which maximizes performance to match your workload.

Product information
* 2.93 GHz and 2.66 GHz core speed
* 8 processing threads with Intel® HT technology
* 8 MB of Intel® Smart Cache
* 3 Channels of DDR3 1066 MHz memory

Features and benefits

Go to the next level of multi-core performance.

Intel Core i7 processors deliver an incredible breakthrough in quad-core performance and feature the latest innovations in processor technologies:

Intel® Turbo Boost technologymaximizes speed for demanding applications, dynamically accelerating performance to match your workload—more performance when you need it the most.²

Intel® Hyper-Threading technology enables highly threaded applications to get more work done in parallel. With 8 threads available to the operating system, multi-tasking becomes even easier.³

Intel® Smart Cache provides a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem. Optimized for industry leading multi-threaded games.

Intel® QuickPath Interconnect is designed for increased bandwidth and low latency. It can achieve data transfer speeds as high as 25.6 GB/sec with the Extreme Edition processor.

Integrated memory controller enables three channels of DDR3 1066 MHz memory, resulting in up to 25.6 GB/sec memory bandwidth. This memory controller's lower latency and higher memory bandwidth delivers amazing performance for data-intensive applications.

Intel® HD Boost significantly improves a broad range of multimedia and compute-intensive applications. The 128-bit SSE instructions are issued at a throughput rate of one per clock cycle, allowing a new level of processing efficiency with SSE4 optimized applications.

Specifications

• Intel® Turbo Boost technology♦
• Intel® Virtualization technology±
  
• Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology
• Execute Disable Bit°
• Intel® 64-architectureΦ
  

Processor Number Δ	Intel® Smart Cache	Clock Speed	Intel® QuickPath Interconnect Speed	DDR3 Speed	Integrated Memory Controller	Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology	Quad-Core
45 nm
i7-950	8 MB	3.06 GHz	4.8 GT/s	800/1066 MHz	3 channels, 2 DIMMs/Ch
i7-940	8 MB	2.93 GHz	4.8 GT/s	800/1066 MHz	3 channels, 2 DIMMs/Ch
i7-920	8 MB	2.66 GHz	4.8 GT/s	800/1066 MHz	3 channels, 2 DIMMs/Ch