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