What generation are 32-bit chips?

Answer 1

This question is interesting, I wonder for what reason it was asked? If you are in the market for a computer this would make more sense to me. As far as generation goes, I remember 32bit addressing being released back in the early - mid 90's. Still in use but fading, so if purchasing a new system by all means go 64bit.

There is more to this story when considering speed, look for greatest available on-board cache which a processor has to work with. With Intel this plays a good deal into the performance of a system configuration. With AMD, these processors have always considerably out benchmark'd the Intel clocking at the same core speed. A good choice for gaming, but with certain applications which need to crunch a lot of data and or use Microsoft code, one would preferably go with the Intel.

That's all I have on the subject, I hope this answers your question.

-Scott