Base de données des processeurs

Si vous ne savez plus où donner de la tête en tentant de décoder les dénominations commerciales utilisées pour les processeurs actuels, le site TechReport a pensé à vous en créant une base de données regroupant et détaillant tous les processeurs du marché, du Pentium 4 à l’AMD FX-55 en passant par les Xeon et autres Athlon Xp. Vous n’aurez plus d’excuse de ne pas savoir.

There was a time when processors were relatively simple. You had a model name (Pentium, Athlon, Celeron...) and a clock speed, and that was pretty much it. With the Athlon XP, things started getting complicated. Suddenly, the number at the end of the name was no longer the clock speed. At first, you could sort of crib up a cheat sheet by starting with 1533MHz for the 1800+, then adding 66MHz for every additional 100 in the model number. Pretty soon, however, there were multiple chips with the same model number that differed in clock speed, cache size, and bus speed. Today, AMD and Intel have abandoned clock speed entirely on some chips in favor of three-digit model number systems that are more or less arbitrary. It's gotten to the point where you need a secret decoder ring just to understand what you're getting in a modern CPU.

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