What's the diff between Athlon MP and Palomino?

[aznmist]

What's the diff between Athlon MP and Palomino?

 

[shathal]

Palomino is a core - AMD's new processor core.

Athlon MP is the (first) Dual processing capable CPU that AMD have brought out. Athlon MP uses the Palomino core.

They're not two different CPU's. One is a core, the other a DP-capable CPU.

Hope this makes sense to you. If you need more info, say so .

 

[mchammer187]

also MP does not support PowerNow which are energy saving features! That is the only diff i can think of that was not mentioned and also Palomino will not be < 1.5 Ghz while MP's go down to 1.2 and 1.0n Ghz. Palomion also not recommended to run in SMP and the MP is not recommended to run in a single processor motherboard though both work.

 

[Mungla]

Isn't the Athlon MP based on the .18um core size, while the Palomino will be introduced on the .13um? I also thought that the Palomino will use the SOI technology, while obviously the current MP's do not.

 

[shathal]

Palomino is 0.18 - AMD has to catch up yet on the 0.13 process. AFAIK the 0.13 Duron will be called Mustang, and the 0.13 Athlon is codenamed Thoroughbred (if I haven't got my AMD codenames mixed up)...

Palomino is definately 0.18