Pentium and Celeron - What's the difference?

[EirePlane]

I've been asked to find out for my computing class but wouldn't know where to start looking.
What exactly is the difference between Intel Pentium processors and Intel Celeron processors.
I always thought pentiums were more suited to multimedia and such while celerons were better for general use but im nto too sure

does anyone have any ideas?

 

[Minstadave]

Celerons have less cache, so cheaper to build, don't perform very well. Older celerons were god-awful, Celeron-Ds aren't too bad

 

[Corasik]

Personally I would opt for the smart-ass option, by telling the computer class teacher that Pentium is an obsolete technology, and anyone wanting serious computing power will buy an Intel Core 2 Duo processor instead.

Compared to the performance of Core 2, the older Pentium design isnt that much ahead of Celerons anyway

Apart from that Most Celerons are based on P4's with reduced cache, and a slower front side bus(FSB). Celerons are often 400/533 FSB, while the Pentiums were normally 800. Core 2 has them both beat with a 1066FSB

If you really want to make it look like you've done your homework, its worth mentioning the AMD Athlon64 series, which were the first 'legacy 8086 compatible' processors to have 64bit extensions and very good performance, and also the AMD Sempron which is their 'budget price' processor.

 

[Defcon5]

You are a pentium.

Cut your nads off.

Now you are a celeron.

 

[Socaddict]

You are a pentium.

Cut your nads off.

Now you are a celeron.

best analogy ever.

 

[Raikiri]

Celerons were based on the Pentium with less cache, a lower FSB, lower heat output, lower power comsumption and were not clocked as high as some Pentiums. They are also not available in dual core versions.

 

[Chunky]

You are a pentium.

Cut your nads off.

Now you are a celeron.

that about sums it up

 

[Gashman]

celeron Ds were fantastic overclockers, my old northwood would take some beating mind, goodbye my best processor ever

 

[ElectroBlaster]

that about sums it up

lol spot on

cellys are enuchs lol

 

[Justintime]

Celeron M based on Pentium M architecture is'nt bad at all, also the Celeron Tualatin Cpu was a badboy chip as well and o'ced well and actually was a very good chip at stock, not to mention the good ol 300A that mostly did 450 just like that, ain't all bad.