Hardware

The most important elements of the processor include:

• Slot, Socket, LGA)
• Clock frequency (in Ghz)
• Number of cores and threads
• Architecture of execution (32-bit, 64-bit)
• Cache memory (1, 2 or 3 levels)
• Power supply voltage
• Power consumption

Currently, two companies producing computer processors, Intel and AMD, are the leaders

Intel processors

• The name of the series (Slot type)
• Pentium (Socket 7)
• Pentium MMX (Socket 7)
• Pentium II (Slot 1)
• Celeron (Slot 1)
• Pentium III (Slot 1, Socket 370)
• Celeron (Socket 370)
• Pentium 4 (Socket 423)
• Pentium 4 (Socket 478)
• Celeron (Socket 478)
• Celeron D (Socket 478)
• Pentium 4 (LGA 775
• Celeron D (LGA 775)
• Celeron D EMT 64(LGA 775)
• Celeron D EMT 64, dual core (LGA 775)
• Celeron Dual core, dual core (LGA 775)
• Core 2 Duo, dual core (LGA 775)
• Core 2 Quad, quad core (LGA 775)
• Pentium Dual Core (LGA 1155)
• Core i3 (LGA 1151, 1155, 1156)
• Core i5 (LGA 1151, 1155, 1156)
• Core i7 (LGA 1151, 1366, 2011)
• Core i9 (LGA 2066)

AMD processors

• K5 (Socket 7)
• K6 (Socket 7)
• K6-2 (Socket 7)
• K6-III (Socket 7)
• Athlon (Slot A, Socket A)
• Duron (Socket A)
• Athlon XP (Socket A)
• Sempron (Socket A)
• Athlon 64 (Socket 754)
• Sempron 64 (Socket 754)
• Athlon 64 (Socket 939)
• Sempron 64 (Socket 939)
• Athlon 64 X2 (Socket 939)
• Sempron 64 (Socket AM2)
• Athlon 64 (Socket AM2)
• Athlon 64 X2 (Socket AM2)
• Phenom X2, X4 (Socket AM2+)
• Athlon II X2, X3, X4 (Socket AM3)
• Phenom II X2, X3, X4 (Socket AM3)
• FX X4, X6, X8 (Socket AM3+)
• Ryzen (Socket AM4)

Processor technologies

Logic architectures, 32-bit or 64-bit.
The type of logical architecture determines how long instructions (calculations) can perform a processor

Multicore
Multi-core is nothing more than two processors packed in one housing, you can find eg. Dual-core or quad-core processors.

Multithreading
Technology that allows one processor core to execute several threads (instruction strings) at the same time, most often you can find from 2 to 8 times (thanks to the support of Hyper Threading) multithreading.

Turbo Boost
Technology that automatically increases processor power, depending on demand, by increasing the clock speed. Multi-core processors can be accelerated by this technology by 15% and single-core processors by up to 30%.

Overclocking
Overclocking - or overclocking, this technology gives you the opportunity to increase the frequency of your own, but you have to be careful when you want to do it on your equipment, because you can overdo it and just burn the processor.

Cache memory:
It is a fast-paced memory that stores temporary and most-used data. This is, you can say, the personal RAM of the processor. It has three levels, L1, L2, L3. At one time the highest capacity was 16 MB, however, the number of processors already today exceeded this number.