Pentium 4 630 slower, more expensive claim

“ EVEN THOUGH Intel hasn’t yet released its Pentium 4 6XX series, nor the Exscream Edition running at 3.73GHz, cheeky French web site X86 Secrets has reviewed them.

We revealed last year that the 6XX series will have a bigger level two cache but the web site is claiming that the processor offers little performance boost. It also claims that EIST – a new version of Speedstep – is a cut down version, and it claims that EM64T, Intel’s version of AMD64, is slower on this chip than on one from Advanced Micro Devices.”