It says here that the Athlon comes with an outhouse...
FOCUS-Intel ships one gigahertz chip, says its faster then AMD's
biz.yahoo.com
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But in an unusual commentary from Intel, the world's largest chip maker said that its one gigahertz Pentium III is about 15 percent faster than AMD's one gigahertz Athlon chip. Intel said that the one gigahertz AMD Athlon is actually equivalent in speed to its 800 megahertz Pentium III, because the Pentium III has faster cache, a dedicated section of main memory, than AMD's.
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Intel said that its chip is faster than AMD's because the level two cache in its Pentium III family, which is integrated onto the processor, runs at half the speed of its processors, while AMD's cache, which is on a separate chip, runs at one third of its processor's clock speed.
"The issue is that there is a smaller level two cache (in the Athlon) and the best analogy for it is someone advertised a studio apartment with a bathroom and the bathroom is outdoors," said Rick Doherty, director of the Envisioneering Group in Seaford, N.Y. "Everything looks kosher to us," he said, adding that he agrees with Intel's claim. "It's a little imbalanced on the AMD front."
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