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Name: unknown
Date: April 17, 2004 at 16:41:40
Subject: Re: 80786 class
In Reply To: 80786 class by
Exophase on April 17, 2004 at 15:53:50
Text: | What makes a CPU 80786 class as opposed to 80686? And why is Pentium 4 80786 while Pentium M and Athlon 64 are 80686?
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| - Exophase
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If you look at the data sheets the P4 has many interesting
new features which other processors do not share - like the
L1 code cache and gshare. However, I do believe such class
codes are not the best way to describe the capabilities of
a processor - they are much too complex: An Athlon 64 "686"
for example performs quite well compared to a "786" P4 and
additionally has many features on-chip unknown to a P4.

~eh


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