I'm confused!

[Garet Jax]

What is the difference between an Athlon chip, a Palomino chip and a Thunderbird chip? Thanks a lot.

 

[Survey23]

See if this helps....All are really athlons anyway...

athlon (athlon classics) are slot version of the chip and spanned from 600-1000mhz...L2 cache didn't run at full processor speed (I think like 2/5)

tbird was the next derivative...It change to a socket form and l2 cache ran at full speed. You then have "b" chip with front side bus of 200mhz and the "c" chip that has 266 front side bus...tbirds range from 650-1400mhz in 200fsb...range 1000-1400mhz in 266fsb's...durons are similar in size and shape yet have 1/2 of the l2 cache and run at a slighltl less core voltage...

Palomino is the "athlon xp" and "athlon mp" and "athlon 4"....They are all the same...They are socket a chips with built in sse encodings, enhanced thermal device (really no mobos taking advantage of), hardware prefetching, advanced branch prediction, and on top of that consumes less power and thus generates lees heat...xp is the home pc market code name...mp is for business computers and stands for amd approved for multi=processor platforms...athlon 4 id code name for the mobile chip in laptops...same bus speed as tbirds


The last two are fully compatable on most mobos kt133 and greater....


If I left something out someone can add...

 

[microAmp]

Duron's have 64k L2 cache with 128k L1 cache, Athlon's 256k L2 with 128k L1

Me being picky Classic Athlons 500-700 Mhz had 512 L2 cache @ 1/2 core speed, 750 MHz-850 Mhz 512 L2 cache @ 2/5 (40%) core speed, and the 900 Mhz to 1000 MHz 512 L2 cache @ 1/3 (30%) core speed.

But Survey23 had it all!

 

[Garet Jax]

Cool!

Now I'm still confused, but a little less than before.

 

[Garet Jax]

Hello all,

I just jumped on Newegg's site and searched on "amd mp dual". It came up with the four following chips:

1) AMD PALOMINO 1.2GHz 266MHz FSB MP PROCESSOR - OEM
2) CPU AMD ATHLON MP 1500 1.33 GHz PROCESSOR CPU - OEM
3) AMD Athlon MP 1600 1.4 GHz PROCESSOR CPU - OEM
4) AMD Athlon MP 1800 1.53 GHz PROCESSOR CPU - OEM

Why is it that the slowest one is named palomino and the rest are named Athlon?

Thanks.

 

[Swanny]

<< Why is it that the slowest one is named palomino and the rest are named Athlon? >>



Probably because they haven't bothered to update thier listings. They are all the same core, just running at different clock speeds.



<< advanced branch prediction >>



I don't think they actually have a better branch prediction unit. It was talked about a lot before the release as a big feature, but I'm pretty sure it didn't make it into the chip.