Intel Pentium III vs. AMD Athlon CS 854/551 Yan Zhang, Kevin Hirst, Adam Spanberger, Jag Gadiyaram

Table of Contents Introduction (Adam) Instruction Set Architecture (Yan) Instruction Stream (Kevin) Data Stream (Adam) Comparison with Athlon (Jag)

P6 Family of Processors Pentium Pro was the first P6 processor in the IA-32 architecture developed in 1995 by Intel. As the chip technology increased, Intel redesigned the original P6 architecture to be faster and include more instructions. The Pentium II added the MMX instructions which Yan will discuss, and it introduced AutoHalt, Stop-Grant, Sleep, and Deep Sleep which allowed parts of the chip to shut down. The increase in chip technology allowed transistors to be closer together. This increased power density on the chips. With this increase, cooling the chip became increasingly difficult. These modes allowed for the chip to cool itself by shutting down certain sections of the chip PIII introduced new SSE insstructions which Yan will discuss Table from http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT030300000001&PageNum=3

The Pentium® III Coppermine 28 million transistors 106 mm2 die area IA-32 Architecture Cppermine is an IA-32 architecture in the P6 family released in 1999. It has 28 million transistors on the 106 mm square die. It can run a clock speeds up to 1.13 GHz. So basically, it’s small, fast, and back compatible with older programs compiled for other IA-32 architectures. And now here’s Yan to talk about the Instruction Set Architecture