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AMD
Athlon™ 64 |
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Pentium® 4 |
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Architecture Introduction |
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2003 |
2004 |
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2000 |
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Infrastructure |
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Socket 754 |
Socket 939 |
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Socket 478, Socket LGA775 |
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Process Technology |
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90 nanometer or 130 nanometer, SOI |
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90 nanometer |
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Number of Transistors |
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105.9 Million |
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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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No |
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32-bit Instruction
Set Support |
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Yes |
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Yes |
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| Enhanced Virus Protection for Windows® XP SP2 |
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Yes |
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No |
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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 @ 800 MHz,
Half duplex |
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Integrated DDR Memory
Controller (MCT) |
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64-bit + 8-bit ECC
PC3200, PC 2700, PC 2100, or PC1600 |
128-bit + 16-bit ECC
unbuffered PC3200, PC 2700,
PC 2100, or PC1600
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No,
Discrete logic device on motherboard |
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Total Processor-to-System
Bandwidth |
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HyperTransport bandwidth: up to 6.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth: up to 3.2 GB/s
Total: up to 9.6 GB/s
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HyperTransport: up to 8.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth: up to 6.4 GB/s
Total: up to 14.4 GB/s
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Total: up to 6.4 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,
64-bit data path @ 200MHz |
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High-Performance,
On-chip Cache |
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L1: 128KB
L2: 1024KB, or 512k(exclusive)
Total Effective Cache: 640K or 1152KB (3700+ only) |
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L1: 12K µop trace + 8KB data
L2:
1MB
(inclusive)
Total Effective Cache:
1MB
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3D and Multimedia
Instructions |
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3DNow!™
Professional technology, SSE2 |
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SSE, SSE2,
SSE3 |