Differentiating AMD CPU's (56k Beware!)

[FragTek]

Athlon64 CPUs:

Manufactured in 0.13µ, The first desktop CPU to support 64bit instructions and memory addressing. Available with 512KB & 1mb of L2 cache. With a 400mhz (200 FSB) bus, and with 3 different socket types:

Core Names:

Mobile Athlon64 CPUs:

Also manufactured in 0.13µ, and with 64bit instructions and memory addressing, but designed for Laptops, with less power consumption. With 512KB & 1mb of L2 cache. With a 400mhz (200 FSB) bus and available only in socket 754, with two consumption flavors, 62 and 35 Watts.

Sempron & Mobile Sempron CPUs:

Semprons use the Thorton or T-bred b core. These have 128kb L1 (64 data + 64 instruction), and 256kb of L2 cache. They operate with a stock FSB of 166(333 effective)mhz. Their Multipliers are also locked. They are fabbed using 130nm process. (from eneuman's thread ^_^)

Sempron:

Bus is 333mhz (166 FSB). Core is made in a 0.13µ. process and 84 sq. mm. in area. Only the 3000+ has 512kb L2 Cache

Mobile Sempron:

Only difference is the variation of L2 Cache and the lower Wattage

Mobile Athlon XP CPUs:

Mobile Athlon XP (Barton):

Manufactured in 0.13µ, available with 512KB of L2 cache. With a 266mhz bus (133 FSB) and with lower vCore than their non-mobile brothers (for the exception of the 3000+)

Mobile Athlon XP (Thoroughbred):

Manufactured in 0.13µ, with 1.45 vCore and 256KB L2 Cache.

There are actually a lot of mobile T-Breds: 2200+ was the highest 45w, 2000+ was the highest 35w. Thanks WiCKeD!

 

[FragTek]

Athlon XP CPUs:

Athlon XP (Barton):

Flagship chip was XP 2500+ (1.83GHz). As the TBred B (manufactured in 0.13µ), but now available with 512KB of L2 cache. With a 333mhz (166 FSB) bus available at 2500+ (1.833GHz), 2800+, 3000+ (2.17GHz) and finally the 3200+ and 3400+ with 400mhz bus (200 FSB).

Athlon XP (Thorton):

Visually the same as the Barton, with 333mhz bus but 256KB of L2 cache.

Athlon XP (Thoroughbred A):

Launched with the XP 2200+ (1.8GHz). As the Palomino, but with the difference that it was originally made with a 0.18µ. core, and then changed to 0.13µ. process, which makes it possible to work with less core voltage (1.5 to 1.65v, against 1.7 to 1.75v from Palominos), therefore, they do not heat as much. They can operate at higher frequencies. Core is 80 sq. mm. in area.

Available from 1700+ (1.466GHz) to 2200+ (1.8GHz)

Athlon XP (Thoroughbred B):

Launched with the XP 2400+ (2GHz). Bus is 266mhz (133 FSB) and 333mhz (166 FSB). It's practically the same as the TBred A, but the manufacturing process is refined, has more layers, and it's fabricated at FAB30 in Dresden, Germany. Core was then made in a 0.13µ. process. Core is 84 sq. mm. in area.

Available from 1700+ (1.466GHz) to 2800+ (2.250GHz)

Athlon XP (Palomino):

Were launched after the Tbirds. Also 0.18µ, with 256KB of L2 Cache and all operate at 266mhz bus (133 FSB). Core is also 128 sq. mm.

SSE instruction set was implemented (from Pentium 3s)

Available from 1500+ (1.333GHz) to 2100+ (1.7GHz).

Table for AthlonXP recognition:

Athlon MP CPUs:

Opteron CPUs:

High-end CPUs to directly compete against Intel Xeons. All currently available with 1mb L2 cache and socket 940.

Duron (Applebred) CPUs:

Low end CPUs, to directly compete against Intel Celerons, beating them by a good margin.

 

[PV5150]

Nice post FragTek, heaps of AMD goodness

Reps for you again :worship:

PV

 

[FragTek]

Nice post FragTek, heaps of AMD goodness

Reps for you again :worship:

PV

Thx dawg!

 

[JN]

Frikkin good guide. some bad boy reps comin ya way

 

[NickS]

lol, forgot these...

AMD Athlon (Thunderbird Core, 0.18 Micron's)

AMD Duron (Spitfire Core, 0.18 Micron's)

AMD Duron (Morgan Core, 0.18 Micron's)

AMD Athlon MP (0.18 Micron's)

AMD Athlon MP (0.13 Micron's)

 

[Toxic_Flo]

Wicked Guide. reppys coming to you. You must have spent all afternoon doing that. :worship:

 

[FragTek]

It took me 236 hours to compile all of that info

 

[mrbeef]

lol nice job man

200 hours though how on earth did u have the patiants to do that

 

[FragTek]

lol nice job man

200 hours though how on earth did u have the patiants to do that

hehe someone else did it not me, hell I don't even remember where I got it from now

 

[FarFarAway]

I've seen it on AMD's support forums....might be from there

Still anyone who hasn't ever done a guide: it takes a lot of effort to do this shit

 

[PV5150]

Still anyone who hasn't ever done a guide: it takes a lot of effort to do this shit

Agreed!!! it's extremely time consuming to ensure that the information is totally accurate and factual, but also so that it can be understood by everyone.

 

[usofjisofdjs]

excellent post thanks