TABLE 1: Intel Itanium Processors
  Itanium (Merced) Itanium 2 (McKinley) Itanium 2 (Madison)
Clock frequencies 733MHz, 800 MHz 900MHz, 1GHz 1GHz, 1.3GHz, 1.4GHz, 1.5GHz
System bus path width 64 bits wide 128 bits wide 128 bits wide
System bus bandwidth 2.1GBps 6.4GBps 6.4GBps
Integer processing Four-integer units Six-integer units Six-integer units
Caches L1, 32KB (16KB instruction and 16KB data), two-clock latency L1, 32KB (16KB instruction and 16KB data), two-clock latency L1, 32KB (16KB instruction and 16KB data), two-clock latency
  L2, 96KB, 12-clock latency L2, 256KB, five-clock latency L2, 256KB, five-clock latency
  L3, 4MB external L3, 1.5MB on 900MHz, 3MB on 1GHz L3, 1.5MB on 1GHz or 1.4GHz, 3MB on 1.3GHz, 4MB on 1.4GHZ, 6MB on 1.5GHz
Cache Bandwidth 11.7GBps 32GBps 48GBps
Physical addressing 44-bit 50-bit 50-bit
Virtual addressing 50-bit 64-bit 64-bit
Maximum page size 256MB 4GB 4GB
Memory addressability 16TB 1PB 1PB