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AMDReview Site News!
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| Features
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AMD
Athlon™ XP |
Pentium®
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QuantiSpeed™
Architecture
- Optimum
balance between work per clock cycle and operating frequency
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Yes |
No |
Operations
per clock cycle
- More operations per clock cycle enables faster software execution
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9 |
6 |
| Integer
Pipelines |
3 |
4 |
| Floating Point Pipelines |
3 |
2 |
| Full
x86 Decoders |
3 |
1 |
| L1
Cache Size |
128KB |
12k
µop (Trace Cache) + 8KB (Data Cache) |
| L2 Cache Size |
256KB, 512KB |
512KB |
| Total on-chip full-speed cache |
384KB, 640KB |
520KB + 12K µop
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| Total effective, on-chip, full
speed cache |
384KB, 640KB (exclusive) |
512KB (inclusive) |
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System Bus Speed
- The speed at which data is transferred between the processor
and the rest of the system
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400MHz
333MHz
266MHz
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533MHz
400MHz |
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3D Enhancement Instructions
- Enables more lifelike 3D imaging and graphics
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3DNow!™ Professional
Technology |
SSE2 |
| Cache/prefetch controls |
Yes |
Yes |
| Streaming Controls |
Yes |
Yes |
| DSP/comm extensions |
Yes |
Yes |
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| Market Watch |
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| -CPU AMD
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| 2600+ and below | |
| 2700+ and above | |
| AMD MP | |
| Opteron | |
| Athlon 64 | |
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| -CPU Intel
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| P4/XE 2.4 & up | |
| P4/XE 2.2 & down | |
| Celeron | |
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| -Memory DDR | |
| -Memory pc133 | |
-Hard Drive IDE
(60G and lower) | |
-Hard Drive IDE
(80G and higher) | |
| -CD/DVD/CDRWs | |
| -nVidia video cards | |
| ATI video cards | |
| -LCD monitors: 15in | |
| -LCD monitors: 17in | |
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AMD Motherboards
XP:nForce2,VIA KT600
Opteron: nForce3, AMD8000
64: nForce3, AMD8000, K8T
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Intel Motherboards
Latest Chipset: 875P
w/Graphics: 865G
VIA: P4X
ATI: 9100 IGP
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