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Pros, Cons And Prices: What The CPUs Offer, And How Much They Cost

By Harald Thon, published on May 7, 2003
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: going, mobile | Themes: Business Notebooks

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2. Pros, Cons And Prices: What The CPUs Offer, And How Much They Cost

The CPU ID clues you in: the low-voltage Athlon XP-M is based on the Thoroughbred B core.

The LV Athlon XP-M is based on the Thoroughbred B core and is produced at Fab30 in Dresden with 0.13 micrometer process technology, so it's partly "made in Germany." But before we go into detail about the actual test, it's worth our while to take a look at the features of the two rivals.

	AMD Athlon XP-M (LV) 1700+	Intel Pentium-M 1600 MHz
Processor Frequency	1.43 GHz/ 533 MHz	1.60 GHz/ 600 MHz
Package Type	Micro-PGA	Micro-FCPGA
Transistors	37.5 Mio.	77 Mio.
FSB Speed	133 MHz/ 266 MHz DDR	100 MHz/ 400 MHz quadpumped
L1 data	64 kB	32 kB
L1 instruction	64 kB	32 kB
L2- Cache	256 kB	1024 kB
L2 Cache Size	512 K	1024 K
L2 Cache Speed	1.47 GHz	1.60 GHz
Bus/ Core Ratio	7.5	16.0
Core Voltage	1.25 V/ 1.05 V	1.484 V/ 0.956 V
Thermal Design Power	25 W/ n/a	24.5 W/ 6 W
Manufacturing process	0.13 micron	0.13 micron
Die Size	84 mm²	83 mm²