Originally posted by: zephyrprime
Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
Originally posted by: George Powell
It is dependent on the application but overall it wll be the Pentium.
The P60 and P66 that preceded the P75 were however not quicker than the DX4 chip.
Any reason why? There were what I'd call significant performance improvements in the original pentium, right?
One word: superscalar. The P5 was the first superscalar in the x86 universe.
486 - first pipelined x86
pentium - first superscalar x86
pentium pro - out of order execution, speculative execution
So in a way, x86 processors haven't really advanced a whole lot in terms of big new architechtural features since the Pro.