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It's the first digit (or 2 digits in the case of tenth gen) after i3 or i5 or whatever.
E.g. i5-8250U is 8th gen.
i5-5250U is 5th gen.That 8th gen is probably at least twice as fast as the 5th gen.
A modern i3 is often faster than an old i5.https://www.cpubenchmark.net/ is a good site for comparing them. The old rule of thumb was that each stream to be transcoded would take about 2,000 of the CPU score. With the hardware decoding that may not exactly be the case now but it gives an idea.
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I'm really only familiar with windows so i'll likely stick to that. What nomenclature does the 8th gen CPUs follow? i3/i5/i7?