processors comparison guide

When it comes to processors, Intel and AMD are the two biggest competitors. The processors comparison guide will show you the different features and technology behind each type of cpus.

Followed closely by AMD, Intel is the leader in the market. It produces one of the best computer processors

Pentium I: the Pentium CPU was introduced in 1993.
• Speed (MHZ) 60, 66, 90,100,133,150,166,200
• Internal register: 32-bit
• External register: 64-bit
• Address bus 32-bit
It can be installed on motherboard socket 7 The Pentium I processor is no longer available in the market.

Pentium pro: was primarily designed for use in servers and workstations. The main issue with the Pentium pro is that it actually ran Windows 95 slower than an equivalent speed Pentium I CPU. However, Windows NT ran much faster on the Pentium pro. The Pentium pro processor is no longer available in the market.

Pentium II: did not provide a brand-new technology, as previous processors had done. There were improvements in the efficiency of the CPU, the main improvements were the CPU speed:
• Speed (MHZ) 233,266,300,333,350,400,450
• Internal registers: 32-bit
• External data bus: 64-bit
• Address bus: 36-bit
It can be installed on slot I motherboard The Pentium II is no longer available in the market.

Celeron: Intel didn’t want to lose the entire market for lower cost CPUs so they looked at ways to quickly provide a low cost CPU. They reduce the cost of the CPU by removing the cache memory from the cartridge and they called this new processor Celeron. The new generation Celeron is as fast as the Pentium

Pentium III: release in early 1999. The main improvements are the new clock speeds that make your application run faster.
• Speed(MHz): minimum 450, maximum 1200

Pentium 4: the latest CPU for PCs Intel released is the Pentium 4.
Speed start at 1.4 GHz

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AMD K6: It can be installed on socket 7 motherboard. K6 was in competition with the Intel MMX processor. With the release of the Pentium II, AMD K6 became obsolete.

AMD DURON: It can be installed on socket A motherboard. In order to compete with INTEL Celeron processor, AMD has to find a mean to manufacture a powerful processor at low price. In mid - 2000 AMD releases the Duron processor with 64 KB of L2 cache. The Duron is suitable for small business and home users.

AMD Athlon: It can be installed on socket 754. The Athlon was released in 1999 to compete with the Intel Pentium III. For the same frequency, the Athlon processor is a bit powerful than the Pentium III. Athlon is also better for multimedia and 3Dgraphic design.

In 2001 AMD releases the Athlon XP to compete with the Pentium 4. It has a bigger cache of 512 KB.

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