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AMD
Athlon™ Processor |
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Pentium® 4 |
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Architecture Introduction |
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2006 |
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2000 |
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Infrastructure |
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Socket AM2 |
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Socket LGA775 |
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Process Technology |
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90 nanometer, SOI 65 nanometer, SOI |
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90 nanometer |
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Number of Transistors |
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90nm: 164million 65nm: 122million |
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125 Million |
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64-bit Instruction
Set Support |
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Yes,
AMD64 technology |
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Depends, EM64T on some Pentium® 4 series |
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| Enhanced Virus Protection for Windows® XP SP2* |
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Yes |
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Depends |
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System Bus Technology |
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HyperTransport™
technology up to 2000MHz
Full duplex |
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Front Side Bus up to 1066 MHz,
Half duplex |
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Integrated DDR Memory
Controller (MCT) |
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128-bit + 16-bit ECC
unbuffered PC2 6400 (DDR2-800), PC2 5300(DDR2-667), PC2 4200(DDR2-533), PC2 3200(DDR2-400)
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No,
Discrete logic device on motherboard |
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Total Processor-to-System
Bandwidth |
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HyperTransport: up to 8.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth: up to 10.6 GB/s
Total: up to 18.6 GB/s |
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Total: up to 8.5 GB/s |
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Integrated Northbridge |
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Yes,
128-bit data path @ CPU core frequency |
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No,
Discrete logic device on motherboard
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High-Performance,
On-chip Cache |
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L1: 128KB
L2: 512k or 1MB |
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L1: 12K µop trace + 8KB data
L2: up to 2MB
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3D and Multimedia
Instructions |
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3DNow!™
Professional technology, SSE2, SSE3 |
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SSE, SSE2,
SSE3 |