Althon vs Thunderbird

[zhchua]

How to see the difference ?

T.B uses Socket A ?
Althon uses Slot A ?

Could someone clarify.

Thanks

 

[han888]

thunderbird L2 have 256 same with p3 coppermine, ahtlon L2 = 512 and same with p3 katmai

 

[AmazonRasta]

The Classic Athlon is a slot A processor, the new Thunderbird is either slot A or socket A. The Thunderbird has 128K of L1 cache and 256K of L2 cache on die running at the full processor speed. The Classic Athlon has 512K L2 cache (not sure of the L1 cache) running at 2/3, or sometimes even less, of core speed. Also, the transistors on the new Thunderbird chip 0.18 micron (not exactly sure on this unit, micron seems rather small, but this is probably a good thing). Of course, if you're looking to read up on these processors, the site you're reading from will always tell you which is which 😀.

 

[Hanky]

The newer Classic Athlons were also manufactured using the 0.18 micron manufacturing process. Only older models (not sure about the respective codenames) with core frequencies of up to 700 MHz are 0.25 micron based.

 

[DarkMajiq]

The Slot A Athlon Thunerbirds are being phased out, and are only available up to 1GHz. The Classic Athlon Slot As have cache operating at 2/3 core clock up to I believe 750MHz, after that it's 1/2 core clock.

 

[Hanky]

I thought it's 1/2 core up to 700 and 2/5 core for the higher clocked versions.