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Key Features
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Leading-edge, sixth-generation performance
Advanced, six-issue RISC86® superscalar microarchitecture <

  • Ten parallel specialized execution units
  • Advanced two-level branch prediction
  • Speculative execution
  • Full out-of-order execution
  • Register renaming and data forwarding
  • Issues up to six RISC86 instructions per clock
  • TriLevel Cache Design

    • Enables the desktop PC industry's largest total system cache
    • 320KB total internal cache
      • Internal 64KB Level 1 cache (32KB instruction cache and 32KB write-back dual-ported data cache)
      • Internal, full-speed backside 256KB Level 2 write-back cache
      • Multiport internal cache design enabling simultaneous 64-bit reads/writes of L1 and L2 caches
      • 4-way set associative L2 cache design enabling optimal data management and efficiency
    • 100-MHz frontside bus to an optional external Level 3 cache on Super7™ motherboard

    3DNow!™ technology

    • 21 new SIMD instructions to improve 3D graphics and multimedia performance
    • Peak operation of 4 floating point operations per clock
    • Separate multiplier and ALU for superscalar instruction execution
    • Compatible with existing x86 operating system

    Compatible with high performance, cost effective Super7 platform

    • Supports high-speed 100-MHz processor bus
    • Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) support

    Enhanced superscalar MMX™ instruction execution with dual decode and dual execution pipelines
    High-performance IEEE 754- and 854-compatible floating-point unit (FPU)
    Industry-standard system management mode (SMM)
    x86 binary software compatibility
    Die size: 21.3 million transistors on 118 mm2 die
    Available in 321-pin Ceramic Pin Grid Array (CPGA) package (Super7 platform compatible) using innovative C4 flip-chip technology
    Manufactured using AMD's state-of-the-art 0.25-micron, five-layer-metal silicon process technology and local interconnect technology at AMD's Fab 25 wafer fabrication facility



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