| Processor | Intel® Core™ i3 Processor | Intel® Core™ i5 Processor | Intel® Core™ i7 Processor | Intel® Core™ i9 Processor | Intel® Core™ i9 X-Series |
| What it's Great for | Budget Conscious. Value-priced for home-related tasks: internet browsing and watching videos. | Everyday Tasks. Business and/or home-related computer tasks: document creation, internet browsing, and watching videos. | Home and Workplace. Business and/or home-related computer tasks: gaming, video editing, document creation, internet browsing, and watching videos. | AAA Gaming and Development. Amazing mobile performance, uncompromising gaming and VR, and next-level content creation. | High-End Content Creation and Development. High-definition gaming, video editing, and documentation creation. |
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What is vPro™?
vPro™ is a technology that allows PCs to be fixed and maintained remotely, potentially saving you money as it doesn't incur the cost of IT staffing levels necessary for maintenance to be done on each PC on site. It provides:- Reduced security issues that could save an estimated 7,000 security support hours annually with reduced support and management work.
- Improved employee efficiency that could save an estimated 28,000 hours with better device security and management
- Improved computer and data security
- Faster and more timely IT patch installations
Business-Class Performance
Get a premium computing experience with optimized performance and battery life for increased productivity.
Hardware-Enhanced Security
Help protect your business with endpoint security features that have a deeper layer of built-in protection.
Remote Manageability
Powerful PC management now possible with remote management solutions.
PC Fleet Stability
Experience improved stability to help simplify PC lifecycle complexity.
Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
Do more with your cloud computing, real-time analytics, processing for your mission-critical business, and big data insights. Improve data center efficiency and reliability to handle any workload.
Intel® Xeon® Bronze Processors
- Affordable performance for small business and basic storage
- Hardware-enhanced security
- Reliable 2-socket scalability
Intel® Xeon® Silver Processors
- Essential performance and power efficiency
- Improved memory speed
- Moderate range compute, network and storage
Intel® Xeon® Gold Processors
- Workload-optimized performance, advanced reliability
- Highest memory speed, capacity and interconnects
- Enhanced 2-4 socket scalability
Intel® Xeon® Platinum Processors
- Demanding, mission-critical AI, analytics, hybrid-cloud workloads
- Best performance
- 2, 4, 8+ socket scalability
Intel® Xeon® D Processors
- Optimized for density, lower power
- Integrated network, security, and acceleration capabilities
- System-on-a-chip (SoC) for use in space and power constrained environments
- Performance optimized for mainstream workstations
- Hardware-enhanced security and reliability features
- Enhanced expandability for graphics, storage and networks
- Essential performance for entry servers and entry workstations
- Performance for powerful mobile workstations
- Advanced security technologies for secure cloud services
- Available with integrated Intel® UHD Graphics technology
Intel® Generations
8th Gen Intel® Core™ Processor
Introducing Intel’s new 8th Generation Intel® Core™ processor, designed to help you and your computer keep pace with the digital world. A new computer with an 8th Gen Intel® Core™ processor delivers a big jump in performance compared to the previous generation, allowing you to get things done fast and easy.
Instant gratification: Enjoy fast, easy, enjoyable completion of tasks.
Easily handle multiple applications running and enjoy better performance with 8th Gen Intel® Core™ processors.
What this means, is this allows your Dell computer to do many important tasks such as: Browsing fast, editing photos and videos in dramatically less time compared to a five-year old computer.
It’s ready to stream 4K UHD videos, power virtual reality, or play your favorite games.
Plus it has built-in security that adds a layer of protection to make password logins, browsing, and online payments safe and simple.
Instant gratification: Enjoy fast, easy, enjoyable completion of tasks.
Easily handle multiple applications running and enjoy better performance with 8th Gen Intel® Core™ processors.
What this means, is this allows your Dell computer to do many important tasks such as: Browsing fast, editing photos and videos in dramatically less time compared to a five-year old computer.
It’s ready to stream 4K UHD videos, power virtual reality, or play your favorite games.
Plus it has built-in security that adds a layer of protection to make password logins, browsing, and online payments safe and simple.
9th Gen Intel® Core™ Processor
The 9th Gen Intel® Core™ desktop processors are the first unlocked mainstream desktop processor. When paired with Intel® Optane™ memory, accelerates the loading and launching of the games you play. With up to 5GHz and 16-way multitasking, take your creativity to the next level with the power you need to create, edit, and share.
The 9th Gen Intel® Core™ mobile processor takes laptop performance to a whole new level. The Intel® Core™ i9-9980HK delivers world-class performance with up to 5.0 GHz1 with Intel® Turbo Boost 2.0 Technology, 8 cores, and 16 threads with Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology), and 16MB of smart cache to conquer the most demanding workloads.
The 9th Gen Intel® Core™ mobile processor takes laptop performance to a whole new level. The Intel® Core™ i9-9980HK delivers world-class performance with up to 5.0 GHz1 with Intel® Turbo Boost 2.0 Technology, 8 cores, and 16 threads with Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology), and 16MB of smart cache to conquer the most demanding workloads.
10th Gen Intel® Core™ Processor
Looking for greater performance, connectivity and entertainment? Look no further. The 10th Gen InteI® Core™ mobile processors open more possibilities than ever before. Groundbreaking intelligent performance features adapt to you and the things you do, for a more personalized and responsive experience.
A computer featuring a 10th Gen Intel® Core™ processor plus Intel® Wi-Fi 6 (Gig+) enables best in class Wi-Fi performance.
Incredibly immersive entertainment features available on select systems make detailed and vivid 4K streaming and gaming at 1080p possible. Designed with you in mind, 10th Gen InteI® Core™ mobile processors make the high-performance, highly portable devices you’ve always wanted possible.
A computer featuring a 10th Gen Intel® Core™ processor plus Intel® Wi-Fi 6 (Gig+) enables best in class Wi-Fi performance.
Incredibly immersive entertainment features available on select systems make detailed and vivid 4K streaming and gaming at 1080p possible. Designed with you in mind, 10th Gen InteI® Core™ mobile processors make the high-performance, highly portable devices you’ve always wanted possible.
Intel Generations - In general terms, performance is increased as new generations are released. If you bought your computer more than a handful of years ago, you’re missing more than you know.
Dell PCs powered by an Intel® Core™ processors are designed for creative professionals and enthusiasts (photo, movie, design) to help cut costs and increase efficiency by taking advantage of intelligent performance and unique hardware-assisted security and manageability features.
Dell PCs powered by an Intel® Core™ processors are designed for creative professionals and enthusiasts (photo, movie, design) to help cut costs and increase efficiency by taking advantage of intelligent performance and unique hardware-assisted security and manageability features.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Intel Core processor family spans several generations of processor upgrades. There are 3 basic family generations of note. Usually the greater the number, the later the generation. For example, 10th gen is newer than 9th gen and 8th gen. These correspond to improvements in process technology and features to allow for more sophisticated applications such as virtual reality, gaming and office productivity.
The Intel Core processor family contains Intel's most feature rich, highest-performance processors for business and consumers. There are three levels of Intel Core processors represented by i3, i5, i7 and i9. The difference between these levels is features (or amount of a particular feature such as amount of cache) present in the processor. The Intel Core i9 processor is the most feature rich, the Intel Core i3 processor the least.
- C – Desktop processor based on the LGA 1150 package with high performance graphics
- H – High performance graphics
- K – Unlocked
- M – Mobile
- Q – Quad-core
- R – Desktop processor based on BGA1364 (mobile) package with high performance graphics
- S – Performance-optimized lifestyle
- T – Power-optimized lifestyle
- U – Ultra-low power
- X – Extreme edition
- Y – Extremely low power
Clock speed, measured in megahertz (MHz) and gigahertz (GHz), represents how fast a processor moves. It's calculated by the number of clock cycles managed per second.
The quad core 8th Gen Intel® Core™ processor with Radeon™ RX Vega M graphics has 4GB of dedicated High Bandwidth Memory for graphics. This is Intel’s first processor ever packaged with discrete graphics for the next level of processing and performance designed for small, thin and light computers. Great performance is now available in an impossibly thin 2-in-1 design with the XPS 15 2-in-1. So whether creating, editing or viewing 4K content, mega tasking while playing your favorite game, the 8th Gen Intel® Core™ mobile processor with Radeon™ RX Vega M graphics delivers balanced performance to experience what’s coming next at home or on the go.
The 8th Generation Intel® Core™ processor has built-in security that adds a layer of protection to make password logins, browsing, and online payments safe and simple. Don’t gamble on old computers with your data, reduce worry with automatic protection.
With an 8th Gen Intel® Core™ processor in a new computer has precise facial, voice, and fingerprint recognition. You can log on with just a look, your voice, or your finger print – it’s rock-solid security, hassle-free, and saves time.
Strong security against identity theft and fraud
With an 8th Gen Intel® Core™ processor in a new computer has precise facial, voice, and fingerprint recognition. You can log on with just a look, your voice, or your finger print – it’s rock-solid security, hassle-free, and saves time.
- Lower the risk of identity and credit card theft with fingerprint recognition.
- Quick, secure checkout with a swipe of a finger makes online shopping a cinch.
Strong security against identity theft and fraud
- An automatic second layer of protection built in to your new computer’s hardware gives you peace of mind to help keep your information safe without slowing you down.
- Simple and carefree browsing without the hassle of remembering passwords.
A PC platform built for business and designed for performance, security, manageability, and stability. The Intel vPro® platform delivers much more than the sum of its parts— combining:
- performance
- security
- manageability and stability
