Athlon is a family of CPUs designed by AMD, targeted mostly at the desktop market. The name "Athlon" has been largely unused as just "Athlon" since 2001 when AMD started naming its processors Athlon XP, but in 2008 began referring to single core 64-bit processors from the AMD Athlon X2 and AMD Phenom product lines. Later the name began being used for some APUs.
Features overview
APUs
Desktop processors
Athlon (Model 1, K7 "Argon", 250 nm)
Athlon (Model 2, K75 "Pluto/Orion", 180 nm)
- L2 cache runs with 50% (up to 700 MHz), 40% (up to 850 MHz) or 33% (up to 1000 MHz) of CPU speed.
- 900 - 1000 MHz have Orion designation.
- All models support: MMX, Enhanced 3DNow!
Athlon (Model 4, "Thunderbird", 180 nm)
Athlon XP
Athlon 64
Athlon X2
Athlon II
Athlon (Piledriver)
"Trinity" (2012)
- Platform "Virgo"
- 32 nm fabrication on GlobalFoundries SOI process
- Socket FM2
- CPU: Piledriver
- L1 Cache: 16 KB Data per core and 64 KB Instructions per module
- Die Size: , 1.303 Billion transistors
- Support for up to four DIMMs of up to DDR3-1866 memory
- 5 GT/s UMI
- Integrated PCIe 2.0 controller, and Turbo Core technology for faster CPU/GPU operation when the thermal specification permits
- MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AMD64, AMD-V, AES, CLMUL, AVX, XOP, FMA3, FMA4, F16C, ABM, BMI1, TBM
"Richland" (2013)
- 32 nm fabrication on GlobalFoundries SOI process
- Socket FM2
- Two or four CPU cores based on the Piledriver microarchitecture
- Die Size: , 1.303 Billion transistors
- L1 Cache: 16 KB Data per core and 64 KB Instructions per module
- MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AMD64, AMD-V, AES, AVX, AVX1.1, XOP, FMA3, FMA4, F16C, ABM, BMI1, TBM, Turbo Core 3.0, NX bit, PowerNow!
Athlon (Jaguar)
"Kabini" (2013, SoC)
- 28 nm fabrication by GlobalFoundries
- Socket AM1, aka Socket FS1b (AM1 platform)
- 2 to 4 CPU Cores (Jaguar (microarchitecture))
- L1 Cache: 32 KB Data per core and 32 KB Instructions per core
- MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AMD64, AVX, F16C, CLMUL, AES, MOVBE (Move Big-Endian instruction), XSAVE/XSAVEOPT, ABM, BMI1, AMD-V support
- SoC with integrated memory, PCIe, 2ÃÂ USB 3.0, 6ÃÂ USB 2.0, Gigabit Ethernet, and 2ÃÂ SATA III (6 Gb/s) controllers
- GPU based on Graphics Core Next (GCN)
Athlon (Steamroller, Excavator)
"Kaveri" (2014) & "Godavari" (2015)
- 28 nm fabrication by GlobalFoundries.
- Socket FM2+, support for PCIe 3.0.
- Two or four CPU cores based on the Steamroller microarchitecture.
- Kaveri refresh models have codename Godavari.
- Die Size: , 2.41 Billion transistors.
- L1 Cache: 16 KB Data per core and 96 KB Instructions per module.
- MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4a, AMD64, AMD-V, AES, CLMUL, AVX, AVX 1.1, XOP, FMA3, FMA4, F16C, ABM, BMI1, TBM, Turbo Core
- Dual-channel (2ÃÂ 64 Bit) DDR3 memory controller.
"Carrizo" (2016)
- 28 nm fabrication by GlobalFoundries
- Socket FM2+, AM4, support for PCIe 3.0
- Two or four CPU cores based on the Excavator microarchitecture
- Die Size: , 3.1 Billion transistors
- L1 Cache: 32 KB Data per core and 96 KB Instructions per module
- MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4a, AMD64, AMD-V, AES, CLMUL, AVX, AVX 1.1, AVX2, XOP, FMA3, FMA4, F16C, ABM, BMI1, BMI2, TBM, RDRAND, Turbo Core
- Dual-channel DDR3 or DDR4 memory controller
"Bristol Ridge" (2016)
- 28 nm fabrication by GlobalFoundries
- Socket AM4, support for PCIe 3.0
- Two or four "Excavator+" CPU cores
- L1 Cache: 32 KB Data per core and 96 KB Instructions per module
- MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4a, AMD64, AMD-V, AES, CLMUL, AVX, AVX 1.1, AVX2, XOP, FMA3, FMA4, F16C, ABM, BMI1, BMI2, TBM, RDRAND, Turbo Core
- Dual-channel DDR4 memory controller
- PCI Express 3.0 x8 (No Bifurcation support, requires a PCI-e switch for any configuration other than x8)
- PCI Express 3.0 x4 as link to optional external chipset
- 4x USB 3.1 Gen 1
- Storage: 2x SATA and 2x NVMe or 2x PCI Express
Athlon (Zen-based)
"Raven Ridge", 14 nm
"Picasso", 12 nm
Mobile processors
Athlon XP
Athlon 64
Athlon II
Athlon (Zen-based)
"Raven Ridge" or "Picasso", 14/12 nm
"DalÃÂ", 14 nm
Athlon (Zen 2 based)
"Mendocino", 6 nm
See also
Notes
<cite id="fn_1">Note 1:</cite> Athlons use a double data rate (DDR) front-side bus, (EV-6) meaning that the actual data transfer rate of the bus is twice its physical clock rate. The FSB's true data rate, 200 or 266 MT/s, is used in the tables, and the physical clock rates are 100 and 133 MHz, respectively. The multipliers in the tables above apply to the physical clock rate, not the data transfer rate.
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