Dothan Over Netburst: Is The Pentium 4 A Dead End?

What It Shares With The Pentium 4

Both processors use a very similar bus protocol. The maximum frequency of the P4's front side bus is 200 MHz, while that of the Pentium M currently tops out at 133 MHz. In both cases, information is transferred four times per clock cycle, which is called quad data rate or QDR; Intel calls this a quad-pumped bus. The core voltages are also nearly identical: the P4 Prescott requires 1.4 V while the Pentium M Dothan runs at 1.35 V.

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Pentium-M I915M (Sonoma)
ProcessorClock SpeedL2-CacheBusDiePower (TDP)
Pentium M 7702.13 GHz2 MB533 MHz90 nm27 W
Pentium M 7602.00 GHz2 MB533 MHz90 nm27 W
Pentium M 7501.86 GHz2 MB533 MHz90 nm27 W
Pentium M 7401.73 GHz2 MB533 MHz90 nm27 W
Pentium M 7301.60 GHz2 MB533 MHz90 nm27 W
Celeron M 3701.50 GHz1 MB400 MHz90 nm21 W
Pentium-M I855M (Carmel)
ProcessorClock SpeedL2-CacheBusDiePower (TDP)
Pentium M 7652.10 GHz2 MB400 MHz90 nm21 W
Pentium M 7552.00 GHz2 MB400 MHz90 nm21 W
Pentium M 7451.80 GHz2 MB400 MHz90 nm21 W
Pentium M 7351.70 GHz2 MB400 MHz90 nm21 W
Pentium M 7251.60 GHz2 MB400 MHz90 nm21 W
Pentium M 7151.50 GHz2 MB400 MHz90 nm21 W
Pentium M 7051.50 GHz1 MB400 MHz130 nm24.5 W
Celeron M 3601.40 GHz1 MB400 MHz90 nm21 W
Celeron M 3501.30 GHz1 MB400 MHz90 nm21 W
Celeron M 3401.50 MHz512 kB400 MHz130 nm24.5 W
Celeron M 3301.40 GHz512 kB400 MHz130 nm24.5 W
Celeron M 3201.30 GHz512 kB400 MHz130 nm24.5 W
Celeron M 3101.20 GHz512 kB400 MHz130 nm24.5 W

The increasing thermal dissipation makes it obvious why FSB533 is the upper limit in the notebook sector.

Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.