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Features |
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AMD Athlon™
64 FX |
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Pentium® 4 Extreme Edition |
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| Architecture Introduction |
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2003 |
2003 |
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2001 |
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| Infrastructure |
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Socket 940 |
Socket 939 |
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Socket 478 |
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| Process Technology |
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0.13 Micron,
SOI |
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0.13 micron |
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| Number of Transistors |
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105.9 Million |
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169 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
Full duplex, independent |
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Front Side Bus (FSB)
Half duplex
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| Integrated DDR Memory Controller (MCT) |
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Yes,
128-bit + 16-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,
discreet logic device on motherboard |
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| Total Processor-to-System Bandwidth |
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HyperTransport: up to 6.4 GB/s @ 1.6GHz
MCT: up to 6.4 GB/s @ 400MHz
Total: up to 12.8 GB/s |
HyperTransport: up to 8.0 GB/s @ 2.0GHz
MCT: up to 6.4 GB/s @ 400MHz
Total: up to 14.4 GB/s |
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FSB: up to 6.4GB/s @ 800MHz |
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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 (exclusive)
Total Effective Cache: 1152KB
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L1: 8KB
L2: 512KB (inclusive)
L3: 2048KB (inclusive)
Total Effective Cache: 2048KB |
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| 3D and Multimedia Instructions |
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3DNow!™ Professional technology, SSE2
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SSE, SSE2 |
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