PC buyers when looking for a new PC will always ask about the difference in processors and why sometimes laptops with a processor with a lower ‘I’ value will be more costly,

From a normal/layman person’s perspective, you will automatically assume that a core i5 processor is a powerful and better option compared to a Core i3 processor.

This is obviously because we think that as the number beside ‘i’ increases, so does the power and the overall performance.

This doesn’t happen all the time. The processor generation also matters.

Let’s think about two processors, a 2nd generation Core i5 and a 6th generation core i3, in this case, the performance of the i3 processor will be better.

This is because the technology used in the Core i3 is way better compared to this specific 2^nd gen core i5.

The clock speed, the power consumption, cache memory size and many other aspects of a processor improve as the generation gets higher.

In this case we are comparing two processors with a gap of 4 generations.

You will therefore see a very big difference in their performance and other features because of the technology used in the 2nd gen processor is way older compared to a 6th gen processor. In short the number beside ‘i’ and the number before ‘gen’, both matter.