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Intel Pentium 4 PC

A representative 3.0 GHz Pentium 4 desktop configuration with 512 MiB of DDR SDRAM and VGA-compatible graphics.

Manufacturer
PC industry
Released
2002
Region
Worldwide
Record status
provisional

Configuration

3.0 GHz reference configuration

Component Role Count Clock Capacity
Intel Pentium 4 Main CPU 1 3.0 GHz Nominal clock not applicable Peak clock —
VGA-compatible display adapter GPU 1 unknown Nominal clock —
PC DDR SDRAM System memory 1 — 512 MiB

Figures for the whole machine

Intel Pentium 4 PC: system figures

provisional A figure marked provisional is recorded but not accepted: its evidence is unsettled. It may rely on one source, an unconfirmed announcement, or a digit read from a damaged scan. The reason appears under the figure. The catalog shows the figure but never uses it in a multiplier. How records are judged.

Metric Value Evidence Basis Method Source
Memory capacity whole-system provisional 512 MiB Confirmed Vendor-rated Design capacity Stated by the vendor This figure remains provisional until the cited source is corroborated for the exact configuration.

Figures for its components

Intel Pentium 4

provisional A figure marked provisional is recorded but not accepted: its evidence is unsettled. It may rely on one source, an unconfirmed announcement, or a digit read from a damaged scan. The reason appears under the figure. The catalog shows the figure but never uses it in a multiplier. How records are judged.

Metric Value Evidence Basis Method Source
Clock frequency cpu provisional 3.0 GHz Confirmed Vendor-rated Nominal clock Stated by the vendor This figure remains provisional until the cited source is corroborated for the exact configuration.
Dhrystone MIPS per MHz cpu provisional 2.5 DMIPS/MHz Reported Measured Benchmark run Published independently dhrystone 2.1 A named historic Dhrystone 2.1 result, normalized by the run clock; the one-source result remains provisional.
Thermal design power cpu 81.9 W Confirmed Vendor-rated Rated power Stated by the vendor 3.0 GHz with an 800 MHz front side bus and 512 kB of L2 cache on the 0.13 micron process, in the multiple-VID group. The first x86 part in this catalog whose datasheet prints a column headed Thermal Design Power, and the table is organized by bus rather than by clock: a 3.0 GHz row exists only under the 800 MHz front side bus, which places this processor later than the 2002 the surrounding representative configuration is dated to. The 2002 flagship was 3.06 GHz on the 533 MHz bus, rated 81.8 W in the same table. That is near enough to 81.9 to be mistaken for corroboration, and it is a different processor. The catalog's representative year is unresolved against Intel's product chronology and needs its own document.
2 documented absences
Intel Pentium 4: documented absences
Metric Value Evidence Basis Method Source
Clock frequency cpu provisional not applicable The selected Pentium 4 configuration predates Turbo Boost. Not stated Vendor-rated Peak clock Stated by the vendor This figure remains provisional until the cited source is corroborated for the exact configuration.
Peak FP32 rate cpu provisional unknown The processor has floating-point hardware, but the cited specification does not publish an FP32 peak in FLOP/s. Not stated Vendor-rated Theoretical peak Stated by the vendor This figure remains provisional until the cited source is corroborated for the exact configuration.
2 documented absences
VGA-compatible display adapter: documented absences
Metric Value Evidence Basis Method Source
Clock frequency gpu provisional unknown VGA compatibility is a display standard, not a single graphics processor or clock rate. Not stated Vendor-rated Nominal clock Stated by the vendor This figure remains provisional until the cited source is corroborated for the exact configuration.
Peak FP32 rate gpu provisional not applicable The represented VGA raster controller class has no programmable floating-point shading hardware. Not stated Vendor-rated Theoretical peak Stated by the vendor This figure remains provisional until the cited source is corroborated for the exact configuration.
1 documented absence
PC DDR SDRAM: documented absences
Metric Value Evidence Basis Method Source
Memory bandwidth memory provisional unknown One of the three machines fitted with this component can be documented and the component cannot: Intel rates the Core i7-2600K's dual-channel DDR3-1333 interface at 21 GB/s. The same component also stands for the Pentium 4's DDR and the Core 2 Duo E6600's DDR2, which are different standards at different transfer rates, so the one figure available describes a third of the component. Not stated Vendor-rated Theoretical peak Stated by the vendor A documented absence, and a demonstration of what would fix it. A vendor rating exists for one member; recording it here would silently give the Pentium 4 and Core 2 Duo platforms a DDR3 bandwidth. The entry needs splitting per memory generation before any of the three can be answered.

Editorial notes

This entry has no photograph, and that is a decision rather than a gap: it describes a processor in a typical machine of its era rather than a model anybody sold, so there is no object to photograph. A picture of some particular case would attach a claim about that computer to a record which deliberately makes none.

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