difference between morgan and spitfire??

[jjyiz28]

my understanding is both are duron cpus and morgan core came after spitfire. gimme the nitty gritty.

 

[ChicagoMaroon]

Spitfire is the Duron derivative of Thunderbird Athlon core.

Morgan is the Duron derivative of the Palomino Athlon core.

The Morgan is better.

 

[Rand]

Spitfire was the original Duron, built on AMD's .18u process. It was basically the 'low end' Thunderbird, as it removed 192KB of L2 cache.
600MHz to 950MHz.

The Morgan core was the successor to the Spitfire, and was also manufactured on AMD's .18u process. It was released at clockspeeds of 1GHz-1.3GHz.
The Morgan core added data prefatching, and support for SSE.
It was effectively the 'low end' Palomino, as besides having 192KB less L2 cache it was identical.

 

[mechBgon]

The Morgan core has added goodies that make it faster per MHz (a little). You can find a full rundown of its features and performance here. AnandTech readers voted the Spitfire Duron the "Best Hardware Value of 2000."

Trivia item: Morgans do exist in 900MHz and 950MHz models, but the 1GHz was the first Morgan Duron

 

[jjyiz28]

nice nice, thanks guys.

 

[chizow]

Are you asking b/c you are considering buying one? If your mobo can support an Athlon, I'd go that route, as neither Duron are worth the silicon they're printed on.

Chiz

 

[jjyiz28]

naw, just to expand my mind.