Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 00:29:19 04/16/00
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On April 15, 2000 at 23:39:04, Eelco de Groot wrote: >I read some information on Tom's Hardware Guide at >http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q2/000415/roadmap2000-03.html#amds_processor_plans_for_2000 > but it only says there that the core is shrunk and optimized. But I would think >there must be some more differences than just on die cache because there are >also new chipsets to be introduced that only work with Thunderbird and up? It is Maybe it will have new features. But I doubt they can get much more performance from "optimization" unless they significantly change the core. Maybe a few percent. More power to them if they can get more. >not clear if Thunderbird can run with multiple processors with this AMD 770 >chipset, it says that "Mustang" will be able to do that. Maybe the "Spitfire" >will also be an interesting chip, it will certainly be cheaper than the >"Thunderbird". It only has 64 kB on die(= on the chip itself) cache though as >opposed to 256 kB or maybe even 512 kB for the "Thunderbird". Intel's Celeron >has already 128 kB L2 cache. I think the Celeron only has 32k L1 cache, for a total of 32 + 128. The Spitfire will have 128 + 64. So it will still have more, but not by much. -Tom
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