On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 09:43:40AM -0800, Robert Tashjian wrote:
> The celerons have a 128K integrated cache running at clock speed. The
> celerons tag ram covers the entire 4G address space. The pentium II's
> have a 512K integrated cache running at 1/2 clock speed and the tag ram
> covers 512M only. The celerons run a {standard} bus clock of 66 Mhz
> and the p2 run a {standard} bus clock of 100Mhz. The celerons are
> incredibly overclockable. The 300, 333, and 366's are regularly
> overclocked to a 100Mhz bus speed (450, 500, and 550Mhz respectively)
> with great success.
>
> At the standard bus speeds, a P2 will outperform a celeron at the same
> CPU frequency. If you overclock a celeron to a 100Mhz bus clock, it will
> generally equal to outperform a P2 running at the same CPU speed (ie., if
> you overclock a 333mhz celeron to 450 (100mhz bus clock), except for a
> few very specific apps, it will equal or outperform a 450Mhz P2).
>
> The celerons and the P2s share a common floating point unit. Either will
> outperform a K6/K7 in floating point operations.
According to the benchmarks I've read the K7's FPU outperforms a P2 or p3.
You are right about the K6, however, its FPU is relatively anemic.
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