Intel Processor Technology

Performance

• VTune, Intel’s Visual Tuning Environment, is designed to provide a system-wide view of your Windows* 95 or Windows NT system. With color-coded, graphical, point-and-click interface, context-sensitive online documentation, and sophisticated database technology, VTune brings ease-of-use to the task of performance analysis.
• Test results of traditional benchmarks are available for the Pentium processor in the Intel Pentium Processor Performance Brief, V3.2.

Technical Information

• The MultiProcessor Specification Version 1.4 defines a standard interface between the hardware and the OS, making it easy for the OSVs and OEMs to quickly support a wide range of multiprocessor platforms with one OS version.
• The Pentium® Pro Processor BIOS Writer's Guide V2.0 (Adobe Acrobat format, 255K) provides OEMs and BIOS developers with the BIOS design information needed to develop a system based upon the Pentium pro processor. This document is a supplement to other manuals for the Pentium Pro processor and 82450 PCIset.
• The CPUID Application Note provides information about the CPUID instruction and its use in high-end Intel microprocessors.
• The application note entitled Optimizations for Intel's 32-Bit Processors describes the optimization strategy that gives the best performance for all members of the Intel microprocessor family.

Tools and Utilities

• The CPUINFO DLL (Dynamic link library) self-extracting ZIP file provides processor detection tools for Microsoft Windows developers. It permits applications to call the CPUID instruction and check CPU clock speed. The file includes source and executables for both 16 and 32 bit. Read the description and extraction instructions before downloading.