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Processor Architecture/Technology--Competitive Comparison

	AMD Seventh Generation	Intel Previous Generation
Feature	AMD Athlon™ Processor	Pentium® III
Operations per clock cycle	9	5
Integer pipelines	3	2
Floating point pipelines	3	1
Full x86 decoders	3	1
L1 cache size	128KB	32KB
L2 cache size	256KB on-chip * or 512KB external	256KB on-chip or 512KB external
Total on-chip full-speed cache	384KB	288KB
System bus speed	200 MHz (scalable to 400+ MHz)	100MHz or 133MHz
Peak bus bandwidth	1.6 to 3.2 GB/s+	533 MB/s to 1.06 GB/s
Bus outstanding transactions	24 per processor	4 - 8 per processor
Clock technology	Source synchronous (Clock forwarding)	Common clock
3D enhancement instructions	Enhanced 3DNow!™	SSE
Total no. of instructions	45	71
Single-precision FP SIMD	Yes	Yes
4 FP operations per clock	Yes	Yes
Cache/prefetch controls	Yes	Yes
Streaming controls	Yes	Yes
DSP/comm extensions	Yes	No
Multiprocessing support	Yes, point-to-point	Yes, shared
Max. system processors	Unlimited (by chipset)	Unlimited (by chipset)

* While all AMD Athlon processors currently being manufactured by AMD feature 256K of full-speed, on-die L2 cache memory, previous versions, without on-die L2 cache, may still be commercially available in some computer systems.