Understanding CPU’s

[wizzywig27]

I am in the market for a new laptop and as I am generally used to silicone Macs I am not really sure what to look for in a windows laptop.

Can someone try and put it as simple as possible for me. My understanding is this:

Intel i3 - budget
Intel i5 - low mid range
Intel i7 - high mid range
Intel i9 - high end

Ryzen 3 - budget
Ryzen 5 - low mid range
Ryzen 7 - high mid range
Ryzen 9 - high end

I popped into curry’s today and seen so many new processors, such as the Intel Evo.

I understand in each of the individual CPU’s there is different clock speeds and cores etc, as different generations, but anything anyone can add would be helpful.

I don’t do much on laptop, no high end gaming, most I would play would be strategy games, such as cities skylines, football manager etc.

As I said, I am not certain what to aim for, ideally I don’t want budget so maybe high mid range area.

Thanks all

 

[wizzywig27]

This is a highly demanding game, at least the newer one is.


Pretty much, but keep in mind that with laptops they usually have less cores/threads than the desktop CPUs.

My opinion is that for general desktop usage, the lack of ram and limited storage is often more of a problem than a modern i3/i5 would be.

Thank you, this is very helpful.

I was thinking of 8-16gb of DDR4 RAM.

So ideally I’d be thinking of either Ryzen 5 or 7 or Intel i5 or i7

 

[wizzywig27]

Does anyone know what the latest Gen of both the Intel and Ryzen is?

I think Intel is 14th Gen, unsure about Ryzen.

I think when I read about CPU’s when I built my desktop that there was a Gen of intels that were generally rubbish, I think it was the 11th Gen?