The AMD Athlon™ MP Processor Overview
The AMD Athlon™ MP Processor For Multiprocessing Servers and Workstations
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- Featuring QuantiSpeed™ Architecture for Rapid Execution of
Applications
- Smarter Multiprocessing with Smart MP Technology
- Performance for Commercial and Enterprise Computing
- A New Breed of Processor Technology
- The Power of a Reliable Partner
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AMD Athlon™ MP Processor
Overview
The AMD Athlon™ MP processor, featuring QuantiSpeed™ architecture
and Smart MP technology, is the latest member of the AMD Athlon family of
processors that offers exceptional multiprocessing capability. The AMD Athlon
MP processor offers fully-featured logic implementation to support smarter
multiprocessing, based on AMD's Smart MP technology. With QuantiSpeed architecture,
the AMD Athlon MP processor delivers extra performance by increasing the
amount of work done per clock cycle and, at the same time, improving the
processor's operating frequency. This combination delivers compelling application
performance. The AMD Athlon MP processor is the world's first seventh-generation
x86 processor for high-performance multiprocessing servers and workstations.
It provides the fundamental building blocks to power 1- and 2-way server
and workstation platforms, especially for users in the commercial and enterprise
arenas.
This processor is designed to optimize the execution of multi-threaded and
mission-critical applications, and to meet the reliability and computation-intensive
requirements of cutting-edge software applications. It allows servers and
workstations to run the most demanding Microsoft® Windows® compatible business
and multimedia applications available today, with ample performance headroom
for tomorrow's advances in software and operating systems.
Featuring QuantiSpeed™ Architecture
for Rapid Execution of Applications
QuantiSpeed architecture, the latest technological enhancement to the award-winning
AMD Athlon processor core, provides for increased performance in server
and workstation applications. At the heart of QuantiSpeed architecture is
a nine-issue, superscalar, fully-pipelined core. This provides more pathways
to feed application instructions into the execution engines of the core,
allowing the processor to complete more work in a given clock cycle. Additional
features of QuantiSpeed architecture include a superscalar, fully-pipelined
floating-point engine, hardware data prefetch, and exclusive and speculative
Translation Look-aside Buffers (TLBs). The combination of these powerful
features allows developers to visualize, design, and animate more efficiently,
while IT managers' needs are addressed with more throughput and transactions
for servers, and increased overall productivity.
Smarter
Multiprocessing with Smart MP Technology
A key advantage of this multiprocessing platform is Smart MP technology,
which helps the processor and chipset offer a more efficient platform and
deliver better overall performance. Dual, independent, point-to-point buses
and an exemplary cache management system, together with a bus that allows
high-speed communications between processors, unite to make this new platform
an exciting, efficient, and cost-effective solution for IT managers. Other
Smart MP technology features include an optimized cache coherency protocol,
which manages data and memory traffic, as well as innovative "snoop" buses,
which offer high-speed communication between the CPUs in a multiprocessing
system. In addition, the use of a transaction-based bus protocol allows
the processors to stay in operation, even while outstanding data requests
are being filled.
Performance
for Commercial and Enterprise Computing
The AMD Athlon MP processor, together with the innovative AMD-760™
MPX chipset, delivers breakthrough performance in a dual processor platform.
The AMD-760 MPX chipset is a high-performance, two-way multiprocessor core
logic solution for AMD Athlon MP processors. The chipset's high performance
is attributed to an enhanced 266MHz system bus, support for DDR memory technology,
and an AGP-4x graphics interface and high-speed 66MHz/64-bit PCI Bus. Together
with sophisticated core logic in memory and I/O control, and design consideration
for system and power management, the AMD-760 MPX chipset provides a powerful
solution for multiprocessor server and workstation platforms. This platform
provides outstanding multiprocessing capability by optimizing the execution
of multi-threaded, mission-critical applications, empowering commercial
enterprises to achieve new levels of productivity. The AMD Athlon MP processor,
featuring QuantiSpeed architecture and Smart MP technology, and the AMD-760
MPX chipset: This winning combination offers stable and reliable multiprocessing
performance for workstations and servers.
In addition, AMD's single, stable platform-Socket A-offers IT managers lower
enterprise management costs by helping to minimize infrastructure churn,
plus it offers an easy upgrade path addressing a wide range of commercial
computing needs, from appliance and general servers to high-end workstations.
AMD's Socket A platform enables enterprise customers to meet today's needs
while helping to ensure long-term investment protection and a path toward
future growth.
A New Breed of Processor Technology
The AMD Athlon MP processor's advanced architectural features help ensure
outstanding levels of performance for servers and workstations. These features
include:
- QuantiSpeed™ Architecture
- Smart MP Technology
- Advanced 266MHz Front-Side Bus with ECC (Error Correcting Code) Support
- Up to 640K Total High-Performance, Full-Speed Cache
- 3DNow!™ Professional Technology (72 instructions, full SSE compatibility)
- Support for Double Data Rate (DDR) Memory
- Stable Socket A Infrastructure
The Power of a Reliable Partner
AMD has shipped more than 200 million PC processors worldwide. AMD processors
undergo extensive testing to confirm compatibility with Microsoft Windows
98, Windows Me, Windows NT®, Windows 2000, and other leading PC operating
systems.
The AMD Athlon MP processor family is compatible with more than 60,000 software
applications, including the latest 3DNow! Professional and MMX™ technology-enhanced
software. To assist seamless integration into the enterprise environment,
AMD has partnered with industry-leading hardware and software companies.
AMD also conducts its own rigorous processor validation to ensure comprehensive
compatibility. Systems based on this platform are available immediately
from industry-leading OEMs worldwide. |
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