They are two different companies. Cyrix is a smaller company, their processors are not as performant as Intel ones, however they would exponse exactly the same set of instructions. Regardless the lack of performance compared with Intel, Cyrix had a very good market in the mid 90s, for people that did not have the money to purchase Intel. Instead of purchasing an Intel at 166 Mhz with 400 dollars, one could purchase a Cyrix at 150 Mhz for only 99 dollars. Of course, the performance of the cyrix would be far smaller, but the price difference would make it worthwile. Had a Cyrix between 97 and 2000. Was very happy with it.
A Cyrix processor typically has much lower performance than an Intel processor of a comparable speed. The only main advantage that Cyrix has is that their processor run much cooler and draw less power than most Intel processors.
* The Intel 80486 lacks the CMPXCHG8B instruction, found in the Pentium and later * All Pentiums include the CPUID instruction. This was only included in later 486s. * The 80486 has a 32-bit data bus. The Pentium (except for OverDrive chips built as an upgrade for 486 systems) had a 64-bit data bus.
The Intel 80486("eighty-four-eighty-six") (Marketed i486, spoken as Intel 486)
Intel Core
The Pentium D is essentially a rebranded and double-cored version of the Pentium 4. The Core 2 Duo is a much more efficient and powerful processor.
The Intel 80486 was a microprocessor family produced by Intel introduced in 1989. It was their first 86 processor with a math coprocessor built into it. It's predecessor family were the 386 family and it's sucessor was the Pentium chip
There are version of Intel Pentium one through four as well as Intel Pentium Pro, Intel Pentium D, Intel Pentium M, Pentium (2009), and Pentium Duel Core.
The Intel Pentium line encompasses many processors of many different architectures ranging from the original Pentium Processor of 1994 up to the Core 2 Duo based Pentium simply called the "Pentium". The Intel Pentium used to be Intel's flagship processor. Recently this position has been taken by the Core 2 Duo and Core i7. The Pentium now is reduced to a budget processor that offers lower performance but also lower cost.
Pentium 4 uses Hyper-Threading, which is like a dual core, but isn't. A Dual-Core consists of 2(two) logical cores.
The 4004 was Intel's first microprocessor and the world's first single chip microprocessor. For the first PC as we know it (the 1981 IBM PC), it was the 8088, following with 80286, 80386, 80486 and then the Pentium line.
The core 2 duo is faster.
Intel 8088 Intel 8086 Intel 286 Intel 386 Intel 486 Intel Pentium Intel Pentium II Intel Pentium III Intel Pentium IV Intel Itanium Motorola 6800 Zilog Z80
The Intel Pentium Dual-Core is much faster.
Yes.