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AMD Athlon™ MP Processor Workstation Competitive Comparison
Processor Architecture/Technology--Competitive Comparison
Feature
AMD Athlon™ MP Processor* Intel Xeon with 400MHz FSB**
Smart MP Technology Yes No

QuantiSpeed™ Architecture

Yes No
Operations per clock cycle 9 6

Integer pipelines

3 4

Floating point pipelines

3 2

Full x86 decoders

3 1

L1 cache size

128KB 8KB +12k µop

L2 cache size

512KB 512KB
Total on-chip full-speed cache 640KB 520KB +12k µop
Total effective on-chip full-speed cache 640KB 512KB

System bus speed

266MHz 400MHz

3D Enhancement Instructions

3DNow!™ Professional
(includes SSE)
SSE2


*With AMD-760™ MPX chipset

**With Intel 860 chipset



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