Processor Competitive Comparison - AMD Phenom™ Processors

	AMD Phenom™ Processors	Intel Core 2 Quad
Infrastructure	socket AM2+	Socket LGA 775
Process Technology	65 nanometer, SOI (silicon on insulator)	65 nanometer
Number of Transistors	~450 million	291 million
64-bit Instruction Set Support	Yes, AMD64 Technology	Yes, EM64T
Enhanced Virus Protection**	Yes	Yes, Execute Disable Bit
System Bus Technology	HyperTransport™ technology up to 4000MT/s full duplex, or up to 16GB/s I/O Bandwidth	Front Side Bus up to 1333 MHz, Half duplex
Integrated Memory Controller	128-bit + 16-bit ECC unbuffered PC2 8500 (DDR2-1066); PC2 6400(DDR2-800), PC2 5300(DDR2-667), PC2 4200(DDR2-533), PC2 3200(DDR2-400)	No, Discrete logic device on motherboard
Total Processor-to-System Bandwidth	HyperTransport technology: up to 4000MT/s full duplex, or up to 16GB/s I/O Bandwidth Memory bandwidth: up to 17.1 GB/s dual channel memory bandwidth Total: up to 33.1 GB/s	Total FSB: up to 10.7 GB/s
3D & Multimedia instructions	3DNow!™ technology, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4a	SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4
Chipset support	ATI: Radeon Series chipsets NVIDIA: Nforce Series chipsets	IntelP35, G35, X38, 975X, G965, P965, 963, 946 NVIDIA: Nforce Series chipsets
Total Designed Power (TDP)	125W, 95W, 65W	95W

* *Enhanced Virus Protection (EVP) is only enabled by certain operating systems including the current versions of Microsoft® Windows®, Linux, Solaris and BSD Unix. After properly installing the appropriate operating system release, users must enable the protection of their applications and associated files from buffer overrun attacks. Consult your OS documentation for information on enabling EVP. Contact your application software vendor for information regarding use of the application in conjunction with EVP. AMD strongly recommends that users continue to use third party anti-virus software as part of their security strategy.

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