Intel® Pentium® III Processor Intel® Pentium® III Processor - Tech Details
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Tech Specs

Processor core speeds

1.2 GHz (0.13 micron), 1.1 GHz and 1 GHz; 933 MHz, 866 MHz, 850 MHz, 800 MHz, 750 MHz, 733 MHz, 700 MHz, 667 MHz and 650 MHz
Compatibility Fully compatible with existing Intel Architecture-based software
Micro-architecture P6 Dynamic Execution
System Bus 100 MHz or 133 MHz
to top of page Cache Level 1 Cache: 32K (16K for infrastructure and 16K for data)

Level 2 Cache: 512KB unified, non-blocking, or an integrated 256KB Advanced Transfer Cache
Motherboard Compatible with the Intel® D810E2CA3, D810E2CB, D815BN, D815EEA2, D815EPEA2, D815EFV, D815EPFV, D815EEA, D815EPEA, VC820, SR440BX, and others
Chipset Compatible with the Intel® 815E chipset, 815 chipset, 815EP, 815G, 815EG chipset, 820 chipset, 820E chipset
RAM SDRAM and Rambus* technology RDRAM
Packages Single Edge Contact Cartridge 2 (S.E.C.C.2), Flip-Chip Pin Grid Array (FC-PGA) and Flip-Chip Pin Grid Array 2 (FC-PGA2)
Micron process technology 0.13, 0.18 and 0.25 micron manufacturing processes

Features and Benefits

P6 Dynamic Execution Micro-architecture

Includes multiple branch prediction, data flow analysis, and speculative execution.
Multiple branch prediction Predicts program execution through multiple branches, accelerating the flow of work to the processor
Data flow analysis Creates an optimized, reordered schedule of instructions by analyzing data dependencies between instructions
Speculative execution Carries out instruction execution speculatively, ensuring superscalar execution units remain busy, boosting overall performance
Dual Independent Bus (DIB) Frees system bus from cache traffic, providing higher overall system bandwidth, improved system performance and scalability
Non-Blocking Level 1 Cache Fast access to the recently used data, increasing the overall performance of the system
to top of page 256 KB Level 2 Advanced Transfer Cache (some versions) Higher data bandwidth interface between the level 2 cache and the processor core reduces latency interface to cache data
Non-Blocking Level 2 Cache (some versions) Improves performance over cache-on-motherboard solutions with dedicated 64-bit cache bus. Also reduces the average memory access time by providing fast access to recently used instructions and data
Advanced System Buffering (some versions) Increases utilization of the available bandwidth on the 100 and 133 MHz system bus
Internet Streaming SIMD Extensions Higher resolution images viewed and manipulated, high quality audio, MPEG2 video, and simultaneous MPEG2 encoding and decoding, reduced CPU utilization for speech recognition, as well as higher accuracy and faster response times
Up to 133 MHz System Bus Increases bandwidth availability; enables low-cost, two-way symmetric multiprocessing, providing performance boost for multi-tasking operating systems and multi-threaded applications
Performance and Highlights
   See Pentium III processor performance benchmarks

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