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Athlon 500 To 1000: August 1999 To May 2000

12:01 PM - February 17, 2003 by Frank Völkel
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: benchmark, marathon
Topics: Build Your Own, INTEL

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Table of Contents:
17 – Athlon 500 To 1000: August 199...
  1. 1 – CPU Performance Check: AMD & Intel 1994 To 2003
  2. 2 – CPU Performance Check: AMD & Intel 1994 To 2003, Continued
  3. 3 – Three Hundred Hours Of Benchmark Testing
  4. 4 – Three Hundred Hours Of Benchmark Testing, Continued
  5. 5 – Intel CPUs From 486DX To The Pentium 4/3066
  6. 6 – Intel Pentium 75 To 200: March 1994 To June 1996
  7. 7 – Intel Pentium 150 To 233 mmX: October 1996 To June 1997
  8. 8 – Intel Celeron 233 To 533: April 1998 TO January 2000
  9. 9 – Pentium II/233 To 450: May 1997 To August 1998
  10. 10 – Pentium III/500 To 1133: October 1999 To July 2001
  11. 11 – Celeron II/533 To 1100: January2000 To July 2001
  12. 12 – Celeron/Pentium III/1000 To 1400: January 2000 To July 2001
  13. 13 – Pentium 4/1300 To 3066 MHz: November 2000 To Date
  14. 14 – AMD CPUs: From The K5-75 To The Athlon XP 3000+
  15. 15 – K6-2+/400 To K6-2+/550: April 2000 To September 2000
  16. 16 – K6-III/400 To K6-III/500: February 1999 To September 2000
  17. 17 – Athlon 500 To 1000: August 1999 To May 2000
  18. 18 – Athlon 650 To 1400: June 2000 To June 2001
  19. 19 – Duron 600 To 950: June 2000 To June 2001
  20. 20 – Athlon XP 1500+ To 2100+: October 2001 To March 2002
  21. 21 – Athlon XP 1700+ To 2800+: June 2002 To October 2002
  22. 22 – Test Setup And Details
  23. 23 – OpenGL-Performance: Quake 3 Arena
  24. 24 – DirectX-8-Game: 3D Mark 2001 SE
  25. 25 – DirectX8-Game: Unreal Tournament 2003
  26. 26 – Audio-Encoding MP3: Mp3 Maker Platinium 3.04
  27. 27 – Video-Encoding MPEG-2: Main Concept 1.3
  28. 28 – Multimedia: PC Mark 2002
  29. 29 – SiSoft Sandra 2003 Benchmarks: CPU Und Multimedia
  30. 30 – SiSoft Sandra 2003 Benchmarks, Continued
  31. 31 – File Compression: Winrar 3.1
  32. 32 – Office/ Internet Performance: Sysmark 2002
  33. 33 – Sysmark 2002, Continued

Athlon 500 To 1000: August 1999 To May 2000

The very first Athlon K7 arrived in the shape of the Pluto core for Slot A. It offered speeds of between 500 MHz and 700 MHz. Manufactured using 0.25 micron technology, this processor contained over 22 million transistors and put the Intel Pentium II and III in the shade. Shortly afterwards, AMD went one better when it introduced the smaller Orion core (K75) using 0.18 technology. Speeds of up to 1000 MHz were now possible with Slot A. The 512 kB L2 cache was located externally on the processor module.

AMD Athlon K75 with Orion core for Slot A.

Milestone in the world of x86: AMD Athlon.

Still in a cartridge: the first AMD Athlon for Slot A.

AMD Athlon 800 for Slot A.

View of the AMD Athlon 800 - you can see the so-called "goldfinger" connectors at the top left.

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