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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
The processors are starting to get a bit confusing though. So many differences between all the chips. Intels puts out a new cpu series yearly i swear to god.
gpt
I mean it's not too hard to remember once you know it once. Intel does i3 which consists of (generation)100 and 300, so for this example I'll use 12 gen which means i3 12100 and 12300, i5 has 400 and 600 or 12400, 12600, 12600k (from here and upwards it'll have K at the end and the K is faster than non K), then i7 has 700, so 12700k, and i9 has 900, so 12900k. Then each one has am f variant meaning it'll have no integrated graphics. Also it looks like from 13th gen onwards they're removing i3

So to sum it up, i3 has 12100/12100f and 12400/12300f, i5 has 12400/12400f and 12600k/12600kf, i7 has 12700k/12700kf, and i9 has 12900k/kf. Thirteenth gen is the same though I'm pretty sure they didn't release any i3's for some reason. Generally the way it works is that i3 has 4 cores, i5 has 6 cores, i7 has 8, i9 has 12. This generation and onwards for Intel include some "performance cores" which are slower cores added on top of the original cores for some performance boost, and they aren't included in the non K variants


AMD is easier imo, Ryzen 3 has been gone for the past 2 generations so that's just not important anymore, so using last gen again which is the 5000 series, starting from Ryzen 5, there's the Ryzen 5 5600/5600x/5600g. There are also a few slower ones like the 5500 and I'm pretty sure 5400 but they're very slow and are basically rebranded Ryzen 3's. The X variants are just slightly faster than the non X, and the G variants have integrated graphics. Then for Ryzen 7 there's the 5700x, 5700g, 5800x, and 5800x3D, the 5800x3D is the most unique processor available right now because it has something called 3D cache and basically it just makes the CPU faster lol, it's one of the best gaming CPUs available right now, but anyway for Ryzen 9 there's 5900x and 5950x, the 5950x is also quite a bit better than the 5900x as it has 4 more real cores

AMD also follows the same pattern, Ryzen 3 used to have 4 cores but now its the slow Ryzen 5s, 6 cores for Ryzen 5, 8 cores for Ryzen 7, and 12 cores for Ryzen 9, but the 5950x has 16 real cores. 

That's pretty much it for now, I probably missed some stuff but you'll get it eventually