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Is there a differnce between Athlon XP and TB

Yep, what's SSE?

All I know is that I am waiting for Athlon XP to come out so I can get a 1.4 for a few bucks cheaper, and the Radeon 7/8500 to come out so I can get a 64mb VIVO for a bit cheaper, to make my upgrade, well, cheaper.
 
if i remember correctly the original athlon thunderbird only had 17 of the total instructions of Intel's SSE instruction set. Now the Athlon XP (aka palomino) has the full sse instruction set.

-dejacky
 
The Palomino (Athlon4, Athlon MP, Athlon XP) incorporate a full SSE instruction set (Stream SIMD Extensions), built in data prefetch, built in thermistor, increased TLB entries, reordered transistors for lower power usage. It still has 128K L1 and 256K L2 cache (non mirrored).
 
+ hardware prefetch
+ onchip thermal sensor
+ runs cooler

oops, too slow. What he said. 🙂
 
From what I've read, it's expected to be up to 10% faster on a clock-for-clock basis and run cooler and at lower voltage (& hence power consumption).
 
What does a full set of SSE instructions actually do.... Does it effect programs like photoshop and illustrator only or does have effects on the OS also?
 


<< What does a full set of SSE instructions actually do.... Does it effect programs like photoshop and illustrator only or does have effects on the OS also? >>



Only programs which use the stuff. AFAIK, windows would not use that. Games and apps could/do use it.
 
The main improvement garnished by the addition of SSE is the dynamic lighting used by games like Quake!!!.
 
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