Getting information about CPU

Solution 1:

You can check the model no by executing

cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name' | uniq

Output:

 model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz

To Count number of CPUs:

cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor

Output :

To check the number of cores !

cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'core id'
core id         : 0
core id         : 1

$hardinfo | less


$nproc  / prints out the number of processing units

For Windows Users Use CPU-Z here

For more info described for both windows and linux here.