The Iceman Cometh: P4 at 4.1 GHz

A Comparison Of All P4 CPUs

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Intel P4 Cores Willamette Northwood Northwood "A" Prescott
Clock Speed 1.3 to 2.0 GHz 1.4 to 2.6 GHz 2.26 to 3.60 GHz 3.60 GHz to 5.xx GHz
FSB Clock 100 MHz 100 MHz 133 MHz 166 MHz
FSB-Speed Quad-Pumped(400 MHz) Quad-Pumped(400 MHz) Quad-Pumped(533 MHz) Quad-Pumped(666 MHz)
L1 Cache (Trace) 12 K µ-Ops 12 K µ-Ops 12 K µ-Ops ?
L1 Cache (Data) 8 kB 8 kB 8 kB ?
L2 Cache (Data) 256 kB 512 kB 512 kB 512 kB
Circuit Density 0.18 µm 0.13 µm 0.13 µm 0.09 µm
CPU Die Size 217 mm² 146 mm² 146 mm² ?
Number of Gates 42 Million 55 Million 55 Million ?
Gates per Area 193548 gates/ mm² 376712 gates/ mm² 376712 gates/ mm² ?
CPU Core voltage 1.75 Volt 1.50 Volt 1.50 to 1.525 Volt 1.25 Volt
Current Consumption, max. 43 A 41.7 A 44.9 A ?
Power Consumption, max. 75.3 Watt 62.6 Watt 68.4 Watt ?
Hyper-Threading no no yes, from 3.06 GHz yes
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Date Intel AMD
XX.XX.2003 P4 3.33 GHz Row 0 - Cell 2
XX.XX.2003 Row 1 - Cell 1 Athlon XP 3000+
XX.11.2002 P4 3.06 GHz (Hyper-Thr.) Row 2 - Cell 2
9-30-02 Row 3 - Cell 1 Athlon XP 2800+40 Days
8-26-02 P4 2.8 GHz112 Days Row 4 - Cell 2
8-21-02 Row 5 - Cell 1 Athlon XP 2600+72 Days
6-10-02 Row 6 - Cell 1 Athlon XP 2200+ (0.13 µm)89 Days
5-06-02 P4 2.53 GHz34 Days Row 7 - Cell 2
4-02-02 P4 2.4 GHz85 Days Row 8 - Cell 2
3-13-02 Row 9 - Cell 1 Athlon XP 2100+65 Days
1-07-02 P4 2.2 GHz (0.13µm)133 Days Athlon XP 2000+63 Days
11-05-01 Row 11 - Cell 1 Athlon XP 1900+27 Days
10-09-01 Row 12 - Cell 1 Athlon XP 1800+97 Days
8-27-01 P4 2.0 GHz89 Days Row 13 - Cell 2
7-04-01 Row 14 - Cell 1 Athlon 1400104 Days
5-30-01 P4 1.7 GHz190 Days Row 15 - Cell 2
3-22-01 Row 16 - Cell 1 Athlon 1333155 Days
11-21-00 P4 1.5 GHz (0.18 µm) Row 17 - Cell 2
10-18-00 Row 18 - Cell 1 Athlon 1200135 Days
6-05-00 Row 19 - Cell 1 Athlon 1000 (0.18 µm)