On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:40:26 -0800, papasurf wrote:

"The Sempron 3100+ is the slowest and cheapest embodiment of the K8
architecture in silicon. Targeting low-end systems, it has just some of the
characteristics the top-end models (Athlon 64 and Opteron) have. The two
main deficiencies:

It's only the slowest at default speeds. When the clockspeed is raised,
it's close to the top in performance, coming very close to the speed of
the A64 4000+ and beating the 3800+ in some benchmarks.

a.. The amount L2 cache memory is reduced in the Sempron 3100+ to
256KB compared to 512 or 1024KB in Athlon 64 processors;

And that's why it's about 3% slower than the 512K models.

b.. The Sempron 3100+, although based on the K8 architecture, does not
support the AMD64 technology. In other words, the Sempron 3100+ is a
32-bit processor."

Bad terminology. It does have AMD 64 technology, just not the 64 bit
instruction set (at least not enabled).

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