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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