At least AMD jumps to a smaller manufacturing process, hikes the supported memory speed and adds about 10 per cent more performance. It's a shame that Intel has moved the needle so little in the 15 months between generations, at least as far as the Core i5 family is concerned, though we do note that AMD's latest Ryzens also keep the same core/thread topology as their predecessors. A hallmark of the Core series is a multi-core CPU, and this particular processor is a quad-core unit. In fact, it could easily be classed as the Core i5-8450 and no-one would be the wiser. Product Information: The i5-2400 is a member of the Intel Core series that is designed based on the Sandy Bridge architecture. Core i5-2515E has support for ECC memory. Core i5-2430M/i5-2435M and i5-2410M/i5-2415M can support AES-NI with laptop OEM-supplied BIOS processor configuration update. Both are based on the third-generation 14nm++ process, share the same IGP and memory capability, cost the same, though there's a very minor increase in frequency. All models except Core i5-24xxM support TXT and Intel VT-d. sheet to differentiate itself from the last-gen 8400. Intel's Core i5-9400, meanwhile, does very little on the spec.

We'd also imagine the buy-in pricing to be lower than 'normal' parts, helping SIs hit agreeable price points that compete well with AMD Ryzen systems. The best guess is that these F-suffixed processors are aimed at system integrators who always ship their base units with a dedicated video card in place.

They're priced identically, too, at least in quantities of a thousand units, and ship with identical TDPs, so we wonder why any enthusiast would go for them and miss out on potential goodness of Quick Sync Video and inherent ability to run in a system without a dedicated graphics card.

Before we give this chip a dollop of analysis, it's interesting to see that Intel also has a number of IGP-less processors that are, for all other intents and purposes, identical to the standard models featuring UHD 630 graphics.

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