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The Comparison 
The Intel® Pentium® III processor offers great performance for today's and tomorrow's applications, as well as quality, reliability, and compatibility from the world's leading microprocessor company. Intel's latest Pentium® III processors are manufactured using the advanced 0.18-micron process. This new generation of technology brings all the performance-enhancing features of the Pentium III processor into exciting new PC products. Available for both desktop and mobile users, the redesigned Pentium III processor with Advanced Transfer Cache means you have all the power and performance for today's and tomorrow's Internet applications. Amazing 3D The Pentium III processor enables higher polygon counts and advanced lighting effects, which can provide software and Web sites with more lifelike surfaces, more objects rendered in a given scene, and amazing shadow effects and reflections rendered in real time. This makes for more immersive gaming and entertainment experiences on your PC and more detail and convenience for online shopping. Realistic Animation The performance of the Pentium III processor enables software developers to incorporate a greater degree of realism and interactivity. Imagine flight simulators with wings that actually flex, driving simulations with suspension that actually works, or gaming characters with fingers that can touch and grasp. Advanced Imaging The Pentium III processor can provide better responsiveness with your graphics software by offering increased frame rates, color depths, and image processing algorithms. This means you can work with large, complex images and digital photographs without the wait. Streaming Video Because video files tend to be large, all the benefits of the Pentium III processor realized for still imaging are even more important for editing and viewing video. In addition, the performance capabilities of the processor allow for real-time MPEG-2 video encoding and editing and great performance for streaming video resulting in higher quality video on the Internet. Speech Recognition The Pentium III processor can provide greater accuracy and faster response time in new applications that feature this exciting capability. With this performance advance, speech capabilities cross the threshold into real usability for real-time speech, Web browsing or word processing. ATC (Advanced Transfer Cache) The L2 ATC (Advanced Transfer Cache) is a small block of L2 cache memory that is integrated into the body of the CPU, and which operates at the same frequency as the processor core itself. Some of its more interesting features include : * Non-Blocking, full-speed, and is integrated into the processor die * 8-way associative * 256-bit data bus * Reduced latency, compared to most conventional caches By moving the L2 cache onto the processor die, Intel
has reduced the amount of needed to fetch frequently or recently used
instructions & data from memory. The integrated cache also permits for
dedicated 64-bit access. ASB (Advanced System Buffering) Advanced System Buffering consists of a series of optimizations performed on the system buffers, and on the waiting order of the queue, which results in an overall improvement in performance for systems using 100MHz, and 133MHz buses. This feature includes : * 4 writeback buffers * 6 fill buffers * 8 bus queue entries The Pentium III FC-PGA 1GHz is produced using a 0.18 micron manufacturing process, includes 256K of full-speed L2 cache, draws 1.70v of voltage, and includes nearly 30 million transistors.
AMD Athlon 1 GHz Classic The Athlon 1 GHz draws 1.80v, rather than the 1.70v of the 850 MHz / 900 MHz / 950 MHz Athlons, or the 1.60v drawn by the rest of the Athlon family. Asides from that, however, only the 1GHz's L2 cache distinguishes it by operating at 1/3 divider. Instead of using a 1/2 divider and work at 350 Mhz like on the 750 MHz processor, the 1 Ghz Athlon use a 1/3 divider and uses an L2 cache working at 333 MHz. Like the Athlon 800 MHz, and all those that followed it, the Athlon 1 GHz incorporates the K75 processor core. It is manufactured using a 0.18 micron process. The primary advantage of the smaller core is the corresponding reduction in the amount of heat that the CPU generates. 128 KB of dual port L1 cache, which is part & parcel of the CPU die, and operates at the same frequency as the CPU core. One thing to keep in mind about the Athlon's L1 cache is that it is divided into 2 parts, 64 KB of which is used to store instructions, 64 KB to store data. The 1 GHz Athlon comes equipped with a pair of fans mounted directly on its heatsink.
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