How to find out what is the Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) of a CPU?

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                          In the Debian download CD/DVD images page  they have different ISO's for the different instruction set architectures. How do I know what is the ISA of a CPU before I buy one? I know about using the commands

    cat /proc/cpuinfo

and

    lscpu

but these are only good after getting the CPU and running these commands on a Linux based OS. How do I find out this information **before** getting the CPU?

For example the CPU:
Intel(r) core(tm) i5-6300hq cpu @ 2.30ghz
In the official intel website  they show the ISA is "64 bits". But nothing specific as mentioned in the debian website:
amd64 / arm64 / armel / armhf / i386 / mips64el /mipsel / ppc64el / s390x / multi-arch

Can someone tell me how they would go about finding this information?

Asked by Mohd Arafat Hossain (133 rep)

Aug 13, 2022, 05:59 PM
Last activity: Aug 14, 2022, 12:24 AM

How to find out what is the Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) of a CPU?

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