Firingsquad heeft een preview gepost van de Coppermine-600 met 256Kb full speed on-die L2 cache en 133MHz busspeed. Uit de benchmarks blijkt dat de nieuwe Pentium III over het algemeen niet veel sneller is dan de oude Katmai. De Athlon huppelt dus nog steeds in z'n uppie voorop...
The 0.18 600MHz Coppermine performs almost the same as the 0.25 Katmai P3-600 processor in most of the benchmarks with the exception of Winbench CPUmark which tests the speed of the entire CPU-memory subsystem. We have to admit that we were expecting the Coppermine to perform slightly better because of the faster L2 cache, but only one of the benchmarks we chose to run had the Coppermine outscore the Katmai by a wide margin. We can't really judge how the Coppermine actually performs just by looking at these synthetic benchmarks.We have to remember that Intel developed the 0.18 Coppermine in order to be able to manufacture Pentium III processors at 600MHz and higher speeds, not to make the P3 equal the Athlon. Anyone that expects Coppermine to bring the Pentium III up to the Athlon level on a MHz for MHz basis might be disappointed. [break] Voor wie nog hoop had z'n BP6 in de toekomst van twee Coppermine's te kunnen voorzien komt bedrogen uit, want Intel heeft het nieuwe PCPGA package format van de socket370 Coppermine zodanig gesaboteerd dat dit niet mogelijk is
: [/break] The Coppermine will also feature PIII SSE, and introduce a new package format, FCPGA. The Flip Chip Pin Grid Array package format was made possible by moving the L2 cache onto the processor core. You may remember that Intel was able to move the Celeron processor to the PPGA (Plastic Pin Grid Array) package for the same reason. Coppermine processors will first be available in SECC2 format (Slot-1), but will switch to FCPGA. The move to FCPGA will allow Intel to shave about $20 off the cost to produce each processor.
The Coppermine FCPGA format uses the same pin layout as current socket370 Celeron processors. Celerons may be able to work in FCPGA sockets, but Coppermine processors won't work with normal socket370 motherboards.
