Sander Sassen van HardwareCentral heeft ditmaal een review van de nieuwe 1.13GHz Pentium III. De geteste Intel processor was multiplier locked op 8.5 en dus geen "Engineering" of "Evaluation Sample" zoals meestal gebruikt werd in eerdere reviews. Om de processor op deze snelheid te kunnen laten draaien heeft Intel wel gekozen om de core van 1.8V te voorzien. Er waren geen stabiliteits problemen tijdens het testen. De warmteproduktie van de processor leek mee te vallen. Hoewel er gebruik werd gemaakt van een normale heatsink (wel van koper) kwam de temperatuur niet boven de 50 graden.
In summary, Intel again proved to be able to take its P6 core a step further, upping the frequency to 1.13 GHz, another milestone that proves the scalability of the P6 architecture. It's designed a CPU and an architecture that combines the best of all previous generations, implementing support for the SIMD instructions, one-die L2 cache, MMX, as well as a 256-bit data path to the L2 cache and numerous other features. Even though these 1.13 GHz Pentium IIIs are going to be hard to come by, they represent the pinnacle of performance and are the fastest x86 processors on the market.
Whether you really need all that computing power is a different story though, as for all but the most strenuous applications a 700 or 800 MHz Pentium III or Athlon will be more than sufficient, and the 1.13 GHz is simply overkill. If you take its memory interleaving into consideration, which has a negative effect on performance when the multiplier increases, it is only a tad faster than the 866 MHz Pentium III for most applications. Only programs that fit nicely into the 1.13 GHz Pentium III’s on-die cache or that are FPU intensive will really benefit from the increased clockspeed.
Although overall we were impressed by the 1.13 GHz Pentium III’s performance, quite frankly it is just another speed grade and for the real architectural and clock-for-clock improvements we must wait for the introduction of the Pentium IV. If you really want the fastest x86 processor today then the 1.13 GHz Pentium III may be for you, but to be honest we’d recommend waiting for the Pentium IV.
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