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[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m confused, was there a time when i3 cores were better than i5?

[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It used to be for a while that i3 was dual core with hyper threading, where the i5 was quad core with no hyper threading, and the i7 was quad core with HT.

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Oooh I see, thanks