To quote Sharky Extreme:
"All previous Athlons came with 128K of L1 cache and 512K of
external back cache running at half the speed or even less (the
Pluto ratio) of the processor's core. The L2 cache has been halved
from 512K down to 256K, thus "Thunderbird"-based Athlons come
with a total of 384K internal system cache.
By finally enabling full-speed, on-die cache, the old "Achilles heel"
of the Athlon "Classic" has been operated on and cured. As ZD
BOP's Winbench 2000 Processor Test (an L2-cache taxing
benchmark) has shown, AMD's 1GHz Athlon can now go toe-to-toe
with Intel's 1GHz Pentium III. "
In other words, just say no to Athlon Classic. The Thunderbird
rocks!
Chad
On 14 Nov 2000, at 10:57, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
> All,
>
> Does anyone know what the difference between the Athlon and the Athlon
> "Thunderbird" chips are? I can't seem to find this info on AMD's site.
> I believe that the Duron is the Athlon with smaller cache, but what is
> the T-Bird?
>
> TIA,
> Kenny
> --
> Kenny Lussier
> Systems Administrator
> Mission Critical Linux
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