The
latest, and the best
gaming chip in the
Pentium range yet. If you're running
graphics intensive games and you want
high framerates for a
reasonable price, the Pentium 4
range is for you. The Pentium 4 range is also, to
date, the only processors to support the
cutting edge technology of
RDRAM. Although the Pentium 4
chipset still
advertises its
clockspeed, unlike
Athlon, don't be fooled, for the
pure clockspeed doesn't tell the
truth any longer. For the Pentium 4 range, you will find it to run
slower most of the time, however the new
Pentium 4-A and
Pentium 4-B chipsets may
match or
supersede this speed. This is for the fact that the newer Pentium 4-As and 4-Bs come with an increase in
on-board memory cache as well as a faster
Front Side Bus (
FSB). Recently, the 4-C range has been released, maintaining the same cache but upping the FSB, as well as introducting Hyperthreading Technology. Below is the new cache sizes and FSB speeds:
Speed Chipset L2 Cache FSB HT*
1.40 GHz Pentium 4 256 K 333 MHz No
1.50 GHz Pentium 4 256 K 333 MHz No
1.60 GHz Pentium 4 256 K 400 MHz No
1.70 GHz Pentium 4 256 K 400 MHz No
1.80 GHz Pentium 4 256 K 400 MHz No
1.90 GHz Pentium 4 256 K 400 MHz No
2.00 GHz Pentium 4 256 K 400 MHz No
2.00 GHz Pentium 4-A 512 K 400 MHz No
2.20 GHz Pentium 4-A 512 K 400 MHz No
2.26 GHz Pentium 4-B 512 K 533 MHz No
2.40 GHz Pentium 4-A 512 K 400 MHz No
2.40 GHz Pentium 4-B 512 K 533 MHz No
2.40 GHz Pentium 4-C 512 K 800 MHz Yes
2.53 GHz Pentium 4-B 512 K 533 MHz No
2.60 GHz Pentium 4-C 512 K 800 MHz Yes
2.66 GHz Pentium 4-B 512 K 533 MHz No
2.80 GHz Pentium 4-B 512 K 533 MHz No
2.80 GHz Pentium 4-C 512 K 800 MHz Yes
3.00 GHz Pentium 4-C 512 K 800 MHz Yes
3.06 GHz Pentium 4-B 512 K 533 MHz Yes
3.20 GHz Pentium 4-C 512 K 800 MHz Yes
* Hyperthreading Technology
Note: Processors are arranged in ascending order of speed, not in order they were developed.
Other Intel processors:
Celeron
Itanium 2
Itanium
IXP1200 Network
IXP220/225 Service-Specific Network
Pentium 4-M
Pentium III
Pentium III-M
Pentium III - Xeon
Pentium II
Pentium Pro
Pentium MMX
Pentium
StrongARM II
StrongARM
Xeon with 512K Level 2 Cache
Xeon MP
Xeon