Comparison chart of Intel/AMD cpus?

[William Park]

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 12:18:27PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 02:12:28AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> >   In the old days, we only had to worry about whether we were buying a
> > 486 or a 486SuX ("affectionate nickname").  Now there's a whole slew of
> > Intel cpus, and AMD is a serious competitor, which doubles the list.  I
> > believe that the AMD Sempron is equivalant to the Intel Celeron.  Beyond
> > that, I'm lost.  Is there a comparison chart on the web somewhere?
> 
> Well here are the ones I know about:
> 
> Pentium-M: A continuation of the P6 core started in the Pentium Pro,

> Pentium-4: The go for clock speed design Intel designed when the P3

> Celeron: Reduced cache and slower FSB version of the P4 (originally of

> Athlon-XP: Probably discontinued by now.  The last version of the K7

> Duron: Cache size reduced version of Athlon-XP with slower front side

> Athlon-64/Opteron: 64bit chip from AMD with integrated memory controller

> Sempron: Athlon-64 with reduced cache size, and 64bit support turned

> AMD Geode, VIA Eden, etc: Various low power chips aimed at the embedded

Arrgh... my head spins.

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