State of the Art of Different Processors José F. Ocasio Janeiro Edgar A. Arce García ArcOm Electrical and Computer Engineering Department August 28, 2004

Outline I.Introduction II.Comparative Table III.AMD Athlon XP IV.Intel Pentium 4 V.Intel Xeon VI.Conclusion VII.References VIII.Acknowledgements

Introduction We are going to study different current workstation processors and compare them in terms: frequencyfrequency size of cachesize of cache characteristics of the processorcharacteristics of the processor power consumptionpower consumption costcost technology advances.technology advances.

Comparative Table Intel Xeon FrequencyCachePower ConsumptionCost GHz (L1) Execution trace (L2) 1MB111W$ $ Pentium 4 FrequencyL2 cachePower ConsumptionCost 3.20,3.40 & 3.60 GHz1MB81.8W$ $ AMD Athlon XP FrequencyCachePower ConsumptionCost 2.083GHz (L1) 128KB (L2) 512KB68.6W$ $159.99

AMD ATHLON XP Features: 640KB of total on die cache for increased software performance 640KB of total on die cache for increased software performance Size approximately 54.3 million transistors on 101mm2 Size approximately 54.3 million transistors on 101mm2 Peak data rate of 2.7GB/s Support for 64-bit bi-directional data Less Power Consumption QuantiSpeed Architecture QuantiSpeed Architecture 333MHz System Bus 333MHz System Bus

Intel Pentium 4 Features: Intel NetBurst microarchitecture Front Side Bus of 800MHz Hyper-Threading technology Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology

Intel Xeon Features: Hyper-Threading technology Demand Based Switching with Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (SSE3)

Conclusion  Current processor technology has reached impressive levels and is advancing at a high speed  When looking for a processor to buy, the appropriate processor will depend on the needs, considering the different trade-offs that can emerge in the analysis of the different workstation processors. Ex. More speed mean more power consumption.

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Acknowledgements To collect specifications from different current workstation processors is not easy. current workstation processors is not easy. ArcOm recognizes that it would be too hard ArcOm recognizes that it would be too hard to find them as quick as we did without the to find them as quick as we did without the help of the internet resources we have at help of the internet resources we have at the campus. We specially recognize the the campus. We specially recognize the significant help get from search pages as significant help get from search pages as