Friday, March 11, 2011

AMD Advanced Micro Devices

  • AMD and Intel are the two dominant manufacturers of CPUs in the world.
  • Since a 1995 lawsuit with Intel, motherboards have been made specifically to be used with either  AMD chips or Intel ones.
  • AMD CPUs are not not pin-compatible with Intel CPUs.

AMD Desktop Processors from Athlon through Phenom II

Processor
Code Names
Clock Speed Range
FSB Speed
Processor Socket or Slot
L2 Cache Sizes
Based On
Athlon
K7, K75, Thunderbird
500MHz–1.4GHz
200–266MHz
Slot A, Socket A (aka Socket 462)
256–512KB
Athlon XP
Palomino, Thoroughbred, Thorton
1.333–2.2GHz
266–400MHz
Socket A
256–512KB
Duron
Spitfire, Morgan, Applebred, Appaloosa
550MHz–1.8GHz
200–266MHz
Socket A
64KB
Athlon Socket A
Sempron
Thorton, Barton
1.5–2.2GHz
166–200MHz
Socket A
256KB (Thorton), 512KB (Barton)
Athlon XP
Sempron
Paris, Palermo
1.4–2.0GHz
800MHz–1GHz
Socket 754
128–256KB
Athlon 64 (Socket 754 versions)
Athlon 64
ClawHammer, Newcastle, San Diego, Venice, Orleans
1–2.6GHz
800MHz–1GHz
Socket 754, Socket 939, Socket 940, Socket AM2
512KB–1MB
Sempron
Palermo
1.8–2.0GHz
800MHz
Socket 939
128KB–256KB
Athlon 64
Athlon 64 FX
See Athlon 64 code names; also Windsor
2.2–2.8GHz
800MHz–1GHz
Socket 939, Socket 940
1MB
Athlon 64
Sempron
Manila, Sparta
1.6–2.3GHz
800MHz
Socket AM2
128-256-512KB
Athlon 64
Athlon 64 X2
Manchester, Toledo, Windsor, Brisbane
1.9–3.2GHz
1GHz
Socket 939 (Manchester, Toledo), Socket AM2 (Windsor, Brisbane)
256KBx2; 512KBx2; 1MBx2
Dual-core version of Athlon 64
Athlon 64 FX
Toledo, Windsor
2.0–3.2GHz
1GHz
Socket 939 (Toledo), Socket AM2 (Brisbane)
1MBx2
Dual-core version of Athlon 64 FX
Phenom X4
Agena
1.8–2.6 GHz
1.6-2GHz
Socket AM2
512KBx4 + 2MB L3
K10 microarchitecture
Phenom X3
Toliman
2.1–2.5GHz
1.6-1.8GHz
Socket AM2
512KBx3 + 2MB L3
K10 microarchitecture
Phenom X2
Kuma
2.3–2.8GHz
1.8GHz
Socket AM2+
512KBx2 + 2MB L3
K10 microarchitecture
Athlon X2
Kuma
2.3–2.8GHz
1.8GHz
Socket AM2+
512KBx2 + 2MB L3
Phenom X2
Phenom II X2
Callisto
2.8–3.3GHz
2GHz, 2.2GHz
Socket AM3
512KBx2 + 6MB L3
Deneb with two cores disabled
Phenom II X3
Heka
2.4–3.2GHz
2GHz
Socket AM3
512KBx3 +6MB L3
Deneb with one core disabled
Phenom II X4
Deneb
2.5–3.5GHz
1.8GHz, 2GHz
Socket AM2+, AM3
512KBx4 + 4MB or 6MB L3
DDR3 memory supported on Socket AM3 only
Phenom II X6
Thuban
2.7–3.2GHz
2GHz
Socket AM3
512KBx6 +6MB L3
Includes Turbo Core overclock support
Athlon II
Regor
1.8–2.0GHz
1.8GHz
Socket AM3
1MB
Single-core version of Regor (X2)
Athlon II
Regor (X2)
1.6–3.3GHz
2GHz
Socket AM3
512KBx2 or 1024KBx2
Phenom II without L3 cache
Athlon II
Rana (X3)
2.2–3.2GHz
2GHz
Socket AM3
512KBx3
Phenom II without L3 cache
Athlon II
Propus (X4)
2.2–3.1GHz
2GHz
Socket AM3
512KBx4
Phenom II without L3 cache
The processor code names and performance in this table are effective as of mid 2010.


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