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Hello!
What´s the diference between the Processor Stepping and the Core Stepping?
How can i get the Core Stepping?
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I'm not quite sure what you mean. I'd say there the same thing.
e.g. there is a B0 and D0 i7 920 processor. These are the stepping that you can by from Intel
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I'm working in a Desktop Hardware Inventory Project, and I need identifiers from processor.
The I7-920 processor has core stepping D0, but has this informations too:
Model:26
Family: 6
Stepping: 5
Are the "core stepping = D0" and "stepping=5" the same information? What´s the difference?
Thanks!!
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Hello,
I guess that this would be helpful to you.
Link 1 - http://www.intel.com/products/processor/manuals/
Link 2 - http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/manual/253666.pdf
Page 246
All the best,
Kind Regards,
Aryan.
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Hi!
Thank you for the contents!
I already gets similar informations, but I didn´t understand these "steppings" yet
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Hello,
Your question is interesting.
Well, i am not the expert on this.
I guess that the best place to check will be:
http://www.intel.com/software http://www.intel.com/software
http://www.intel.com/opensource/ http://www.intel.com/opensource/
However, i did some more research.
To my understanding, they are not the same thing. I may be wrong. Please check with the software comm.
Core Stepping means:
Throughout the life of a processor life cycle, the processor may go through several steppings or versions. Newer steppings typically have some type of improvement over previous steppings of the processor.
Processor Stepping:
The Processor stepping is a 4-bit value obtained by copying the stepping field of the processor signature returned by CPUID instructions.
This stepping id indicated the revision of the processor family.
Now, why i am saying they are different:
I have used Intel (R) Processor Identification Utility on some different system.
http://www.intel.com/support/processors/tools/piu/
I can see some CPU with a specific SL number has a certain core stepping C1 and when running this utility, it gives a stepping of 5. So this is completely different.
I have come across this document which is very interesting to understand the CPUID string fully.
http://www.intel.com/assets/pdf/appnote/241618.pdf
All the best,
Kind Regards,
Aryan.
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