Apple 9500/180MP Personal Computer User Manual


 
Basics PowerPC 604 Microprocessor - 5
PowerPC 604 Microprocessor
The Power Macintosh 9500 Series computers feature the
highest performance PowerPC processor available: the
PowerPC 604 RISC microprocessor. Designed to bring
unprecedented levels of performance to desktop computers,
the Power PC 604 processor offers up to 1.5 times the
performance of the PowerPC 601 processor at the same
clock speed. Features include
Full RISC processing architecture
Parallel processing units: one load-store unit, two
integer units, one complex integer unit, and one floating
point unit
Separate built-in caches for data and instructions, 16
KB each, four-way set associative
Advanced branching techniques for improved throughput