At 01:42 AM 2/15/03 +0700, Jacobus J. S. (Kiki) wrote the following:
I will really glad if someone will respon to this post, because I know to many peoples in this room that need help in more urgent situatioan than me. I'm just curious what are differences between Pentium and Celeron processor? Is that true that there are Celeron processor with 512 KB L2 cache? I'm asking this because my brother told me so, while as long as I know that 512 KB L2 cache is only exist on Pentium classs processor. I have tried to look on Intel site, but there are no explicit explanation about the differences between them. I mean with same clock speed (e.g 1,8 GHz) and same L2 cache size, will they give different performance? For example what's the differences between Pentium 1,8 GHz 512 KB L2 cache with Celeron 1,8 GHz 512 KB L2 cache (if it's exist)?
Generally speaking, Celerons ONLY have a 128KB L@ cache, especially in the faster (1.7GHz and up) speed ranges. They do have a couple of lower speed models (1.4Gz and less) with a 256KB L2 cache. http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/processors/celeron/detail.htm
They may be working on larger cache sizes but they are not currently available. In general for the faster chip speeds (1.7GHz and up), the Pentium 4 tends to outperform the Celeron in demanding applications and games. The reason is the smaller L2 cache on the Celeron, which is only 128 KB. The current set of Pentium 4's now have a 512 KB L2 cache squeezed onto the chip, which is four times the Celeron's cache. -- Gerry Boyd ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
