| Q: | What are the key features of the AMD Athlon XP processors 3200+?
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| A: | The key features of the AMD Athlon XP processor 3200+ include:
- Advanced 400 front-side system bus to increase bandwidth
- 640KB full-speed, on-chip cache to enable smooth and responsive 3-D gaming performance
- QuantiSpeed™ architecture
- 3DNow!™ Professional technology
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| Q: | Why did AMD decide to increase the front-side bus frequency on the AMD Athlon™ XP processor from 333 FSB to 400 FSB?
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| A: | AMD is committed to offering the highest performance processors in the marketplace. As a result, AMD responded to customer requests for increased performance. We have determined that an FSB frequency increase will benefit our customers by improving data throughput to the processor, and thus increase performance across the broadest range of software applications. |
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| Q: | What kind of performance boost do you expect to see from the increased FSB?
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| A: | The advanced 400 FSB of the AMD Athlon XP processor 3200+ will increase maximum data throughput into and out of the processor by up to 20 percent over the current 333 FSB. This will result in significant performance gains on all types for software, including office productivity, digital media and 3-D gaming. On a variety of industry-standard software benchmarks, the
AMD Athlon XP processor 3200+ outperforms competing desktop PC processors by an average of 6 percent.
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| Q: | Is the AMD Athlon XP processor 3200+ for desktop PCs based on the "Barton"core?
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| A: | Yes. The AMD Athlon XP processor 3200+ has a total cache of 640KB. Additionally, the core is based on AMDIt's state-of-the-art 0.13-micron technology. |
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| Q: | What level of performance will the AMD Athlon XP processor 3200+ offer?
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| A: | The AMD Athlon XP processor 3200+ is the worldIt's highest-performing PC processor and is expected to enable end users to have a highly responsive system for office productivity, content creation, 3-D gaming and demanding multimedia applications. |
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| Q: | What specific applications benefit from the performance of the AMD Athlon XP processor 3200+?
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| A: | The real benefit of the QuantiSpeed architecture that powers the AMD Athlon XP processor 3200+ is that it can deliver better performance on a broad range of applications. AMDIt's customers demand that all their applications perform well, including office productivity, digital media and 3-D gaming. For benchmarks and other specific information please see:http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon. |
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| Q: | How do you expect the AMD Athlon XP processor 3200+ to perform against the 3.0GHz Intel Pentium庐 4 processor with an 800 FSB?
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| A: | The AMD Athlon XP processor 3200+ is the worldIt's highest-performing PC processor on a variety of real-world, industry-standard benchmarks for office productivity, digital media and 3-D gaming. It outperforms its closest competitor by an average of 6 percent on a variety of industry-standard benchmarks. |
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| Q: | What does the 3200+ model mean?
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| A: | This is a model number. AMD identifies the AMD Athlon XP processor using model numbers, as opposed to megahertz. Model numbers are designed to communicate the relative application performance among the various
AMD Athlon XP processors. As additional evidence that performance is not based on megahertz alone: the AMD Athlon XP processor 3200+ operates at a frequency of 2.2GHz yet can outperform an Intel Pentium庐 4 processor operating at 3.0GHz with an 800 FSB and HyperThreading on a broad array of real-world applications for office productivity, digital media and 3-D gaming.
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| Q: | Who needs a performance processor?
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| A: | High-end performance applications such as video manipulation traditionally have been the domain of advanced users. With the Windows XP operating system, it is easier for mainstream PC users to take advantage of these types of performance applications. Consumers now have performance applications built into the operating system, such as voice recognition, photo and video editing, and CD burning software. |
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| Q: | Which chipsets will support the 400 FSB? Motherboards?
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| A: | The AMD Athlon XP processor 3200+ has widespread support from our infrastructure partners. Chipsets will be available from SIS and NVIDIA at launch while VIA plans to have a chipset solution available in June. Motherboards are planned to be available from a wide array of companies, including ASUS, MSI, Chaintech, Leadtek, ECS, Epox, ABIT, Aopen, FIC, Biostar and Soltek at launch. Additional motherboards are expected soon after launch. |
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| Q: | Where is the AMD Athlon XP processor manufactured? What process technology is used?
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| A: | The AMD Athlon XP processor is manufactured on AMDIt's advanced 0.13-micron copper process technology at Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany. |
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| Q: | What is QuantiSpeed™ architecture?
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| A: | QuantiSpeed architecture is an easy-to-understand name that encompasses the AMD Athlon XP processorIt's core architectural features, and explains to end users how the AMD Athlon XP processor provides superior application performance. Specifically, QuantiSpeed architecture incorporates:
- Nine-issue, fully pipelined, superscalar micro-architecture
- Superscalar, fully pipelined floating point unit (FPU)
- Hardware data prefetch
- Exclusive & speculative Translation Look-aside Buffers (TLB)
For more information, please see the QuantiSpeed whitepaper at www.amd.com. |
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| Q: | What is hardware data prefetch?
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| A: | Hardware data prefetch anticipates data the processor will need based on the instruction stream executed, and brings it into high-speed, on-die cache memory where it can be accessed faster to boost application performance. It gets data before the processor needs it.
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| Q: | What are TLBs?
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| A: | Translation Look-aside Buffers (TLBs). The TLB structures in QuantiSpeed architecture keep the maps to critical data close to the processor. This is designed to prevent the processor from stalling or waiting when future data is requested. These TLB structures are now larger, exclusive between caches, and speculative. Larger TLBs give the AMD Athlon XP processor access to additional data maps. The exclusive nature of these structures removes the duplication of information, freeing up more space in the Level 2 cache for other useful data to be used by the processor. The aspect of speculation allows the AMD Athlon XP processor to generate future maps of critical data quickly. These three enhancements to the TLB structures further increase the work completed per clock cycle, thus improving real-world application performance of the AMD Athlon XP processor. |
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| Q: | What type of packaging does the AMD Athlon XP processor use? Is this package compatible with your existing Socket A infrastructure?
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| A: | The AMD Athlon XP processor uses OPGA, or organic pin grid array, packaging technology. The substrate used to make this packaging is fiberglass, similar to the material found in printed circuit boards. This packaging offers a better solution for performance processors by lowering the impedance and cost of the package, and is designed to be compatible with our existing Socket A infrastructure. |
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