AMD Athlon™ MP Processor Competitive Comparison*
Processor Architecture/Technology--Competitive Comparison

 
Feature
AMD Athlon™ MP Processor Xeon Processor Pentium® III
Smart MP Technology Yes No No
QuantiSpeed™ Architecture Yes No No
Integer pipelines 3 4 2
Floating point pipelines 3 2 1
Full x86 decoders 3 1 1
L1 cache size 128KB 12k µop + 8KB Data Cache 32KB
L2 cache size 256KB (on-chip) 256KB on-chip 256KB on 1.1GHz freq and lower, 512KB on 1.2GHz
Total on-chip full-speed cache 384KB 264KB + 12k µop 288KB on 1.1GHz freq and lower, 544KB on 1.2GHz
Total effective on-chip full-speed cache 384KB (exclusive) 256KB (inclusive) 256KB on 1.1GHz freq and lower, 512KB on 1.2GHz
(inclusive)
System bus speed 266MHz 400MHz 100MHz or 133MHz
3D enhancement instructions 3DNow!™ Professional SSE2 SSE
Single-precision FP SIMD Yes Yes Yes
 
4 FP operations per clock Yes Yes Yes
 
Cache/prefetch controls Yes Yes Yes
 
Streaming controls Yes Yes Yes
DSP/comm extensions Yes Yes No

      * From AMD Official Website