| Features
and Benefits |
AMD
Athlon™ XP |
Pentium?
4 |
 |
QuantiSpeed™
Architecture Optimum balance between
work per clock cycle and operating frequency |
 |
Yes |
 |
No |
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|
Operations
per clock cycle More operations per
clock cycle enables faster software execution |
 |
9 |
 |
6 |
/td>
|
Integer
Pipelines |
 |
3 |
 |
4 |
 |
Floating
Point Pipelines |
 |
3 |
 |
2 |
/td>
|
Full
x86 Decoders |
 |
3 |
 |
1 |
/td>
|
L1
Cache Size |
 |
128KB |
 |
12k
μop (Trace Cache) + 8KB (Data Cache) |
/td>
|
L2
Cache Size |
 |
256KB,
512KB
(on-chip) |
 |
512KB
(on-chip) |
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|
Total
on-chip full-speed cache |
 |
384KB,
640KB |
 |
520KB
+ 12K μop (on-chip) |
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|
Total
effective, on-chip, full speed cache |
 |
384KB,
640KB
(exclusive) |
 |
512KB
(inclusive) |
 |
System
Bus Speed The speed at which data is
transferred between the processor and the rest
of the system |
 |
400MHz
333MHz
266MHz |
 |
533MHz
400MHz |
 |
3D
Enhancement Instructions Enables more
lifelike 3D imaging and graphics |
 |
3DNow!™
Professional Technology |
 |
SSE2 |
 |
Cache/prefetch
controls
|  |
Yes |
 |
Yes |
 |
Streaming
Controls |
 |
Yes |
 |
Yes |
 |
DSP/comm
extensions |
 |
Yes |
 |
Yes |