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 processor family 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.

• Quad-Core Processing
  Provides four complete execution cores in a single processor package. Four dedicated physical cores help operating systems and applications deliver additional performance, so users can experience better multitasking and multithreaded performance across many types of applications and workloads.
  
  
• Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology)³
  Delivers two processing threads per physical core for a total of eight threads for massive computational throughput. With Intel® HT Technology, highly threaded applications can get more work done in parallel, completing tasks sooner. With more threads available to the operating system, multitasking becomes even easier. This amazing processor can handle multiple applications working simultaneously, allowing you to do more with less wait time.
  
  
• Intel® Turbo Boost Technology²
  Dynamically increases the processor’s frequency as needed by taking advantage of thermal and power headroom when operating below specified limits. Get more performance automatically, when you need it the most.
  
  
• 8 MB Intel® Smart Cache
  This large last-level cache enables dynamic and efficient allocation of shared cache to all four cores to match the needs of various applications for ultraefficient data storage and manipulation.
  
  
• Integrated Memory Controller
  An integrated memory controller offers stunning memory read/write performance through efficient prefetching algorithms, lower latency, and higher memory bandwidth making the Intel® Core™ i7 processor family ideal for data-intensive applications.
  
  
• Intel® HD Boost
  Includes the full SSE4 instruction set, significantly improving a broad range of multimedia and computeintensive 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.
  
  
• Intel® QuickPath Interconnect (Intel® QPI)
  For the Intel® Core™ i7-900 processor series, Intel® QPI increases bandwidth and lowers latency, while achieving data transfer speeds as high as 25.6 GB/s.