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Sandy Bridge

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Intel released Sandy Bridge in January 2011 as the major successor to Nehalem. Core i7, i5 and i3 variants were released simultaneously.

Family

  • Core i7 exhibits the highest clock speeds and largest speedups from Turbo Boost. It uses SMT and provides vPro and AES instructions.
  • Core i5 does not support SMT.
  • Core i3 does not support vPro or AES.