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Subject: Re: centrino performance?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 09:49:41 06/20/03

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On June 19, 2003 at 17:00:46, Dan Andersson wrote:

> Nothing to do with Cache IMO. The Centrino has a longer pipeline than the PIII.
>And a better branch prediction mechanism. So it has better IPC than the PIII.
>While able to reach higer frequencies.
> That and a micro operation optimizing stage makes it closer in IPC to the AMD
>Athlon than any other Intel processor ever.
> I would love to have a desktop system with one of these CPUs.
>
>MvH Dan Andersson

Actually, the P3 and Athlon have nearly the same IPC. The Pentium M seems to
have better IPC than the Athlon.

-Tom



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