Spitfire, Morgan, Thunderbird.. whaat??

[TechDude]

Can someone tell me just excatly what those names are? I know that they are names for AMD cpu cores.. but can anyone explain in more detail?

[Rhino302]

Spitfire is the same as T-Bird core with less L2 cache.

T-Bird is the current Ahlon core

Morgan is the new Duron, which I'm using right now. It's the Duron version of the Palomino core, which has SSE support and data-prefetch enhancements. Its currently @ 1ghz. Mine is O/C'd to 1.2. It also has less L2 cache than T-Bird or Palomino.

[Hellmund]

Morgan and spitfire are duron cores. Athlons have 256kb L2 cache and 64kb L1. Durons have 64kb L1 and 128kb L2.

T-birds are Athlons with internal cache, the old athlon classics had external cache on a PCB next to it, remember Slot A?

[jl123]

I remember the big fuss over the classic Athlon...you know back then when I was an Intel fan. lol

~Joel

[Rhino302]

Actually Hellmund,

All current AMD cpu's have 128 kb L1 cache.
T-Birds & Palominos have 256 L2, and Durons 64 L2.

[Obsolete]

If you want to get really technical on the caches of the athlons they have a 64kb L1 data cache and a 64kb L1 instruction cache

[Hellmund]

My bad......mixed em up, Duron do have 64kb L2 cache and 128kb L1. Athlons have 256mb L2. Same 128kb L1 cache.

[This message has been edited by Hellmund (edited 09-10-2001).]