Intel’s Core i3-540 is a 3.06GHz dual-core CPU, and a member of the company’s Clarkdale line of chips. Released four months after Lynnfield (the family of the Core i7-870), ...

We've always known that Intel's Core 2010 processors provide excellent bang for the buck, and the dual-core Clarkdale Core i3-540 in the new iMac is no exception.

Intel’s 4th Gen Haswell Core i3 processors had either 3MB or 4MB of cache, Haswell Core i5s had either 4MB or 6MB of cache and Haswell Core i7 CPUs had a hefty 8MB of cache, except for the i7 ...