AMD Athlon™ FX Processor
Competitive Comparison
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AMD Quad FX Platform
with Dual Socket Direct Connect Architecture |
Intel |
| Features |
2 AMD Athlon™ FX |
Intel Core 2 Duo |
Intel Core 2 Quad |
FX-70 |
FX-72 |
FX-74 |
X6800 |
QX6700 |
| Frequency |
2.6GHz
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2.8GHz |
3.0GHz |
2.93GHz |
2.66GHz |
| Infrastructure |
F (1207FX) |
LGA 775 |
| Number of Cores |
Quad-core Platform (dual-socket, dual-core) |
Dual-core |
Quad-core
(multi-chip module) |
| Process Technology |
90nm, DSL SOI |
65nm |
| Number of Transistors |
227M per processor
454M per platform |
291M |
582M |
| 64-bit Instruction Set Support |
Yes, AMD64 Technology |
Yes, EM64T |
| 32-bit Instruction Set Support |
Yes |
Yes |
| Enhanced Virus Protection* |
Yes |
Yes |
| System Bus Technology |
HyperTransport™ technology up to 2000MHz bidirectional |
Front Side Bus (FSB)
1066MHz Half duplex |
| Integrated DDR Memory Controller (MCT) |
128-bit unbuffered DDR2 memory PC2 6400,
PC2 5300, PC2 4200 or PC2 3200 |
No,
Discrete logic device on motherboard |
| Integrated Northbridge |
Yes,
128-bit data path @ CPU core frequency |
No,
Discrete logic device on motherboard |
| High-Performance, On-chip Cache |
L1: Total 512KB (256KB per processor)
L2: 4MB Total (2MB per processor) |
L1: 64KB
L2:4MB |
L1: 128KB
L2:8MB |
| 3D and Multimedia Instructions |
3DNow!™ Professional technology, SSE/SSE2/SSE3 |
SSE/SSE2/SSE3 |
*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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