ISSCC 2004: IBM on PowerPC 970FX

[ktlx]

Originally posted by mmmmmk
A good example of this would be the intel centrino package...the processor runs at a much slower speed than the p4, but because it has a 1meg cache, it runs very close to it but uses much less power.

That is a bad example of what you are trying to claim. There are more differences between the Pentium 4 and Pentium M than simply the cache size. They are very different processor designs with very different design goals.

 

[army_guy]

You are right KTLX, the pentium m has nothing to do with the pentium 4, its a heavely modified pentium 3 thats why it performs better than the equivalent pentium 4 at the same clock. The P3 was Intels best CPU for its time not like the P4 which was actually SLOWER than the P3 when it was released!!! and was 500MHz faster in clock!!