AMD Athlon™ Processor Product Brief

Ultimate Performance for Cutting-Edge Applications

The Most Powerful Multimedia
Experience in an x86 Platform
Tomorrow's Technology Today
Powering the Next Generation in
Computing Platforms
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AMD Athlon™ Processor Overview
The AMD Athlon™ processor is among the world's most powerful engines for PC computing, and
represents the industry's first seventh-generation x86 microarchitecture. The AMD Athlon processor
family is designed to power the next generation in x86 computing platforms. It meets the
computation-intensive requirements of cutting-edge software applications running on high-end desktop
systems, workstations, and servers. All AMD Athlon processors are now produced using 0.18-micron
process technology.

Business users who work with image processing, digital content creation, CAD/CAE, scientific
applications and other computationally-demanding software will benefit from the tremendous processing
power of AMD Athlon processor-based systems. Computing enthusiasts who want the performance and
clock speeds required to run the latest 3D gaming, entertainment, Internet, and personal productivity
software will benefit from desktop systems powered by the AMD Athlon processor.

Ultimate Performance for Cutting-Edge Applications
The AMD Athlon processor's seventh-generation microarchitecture, including a high-bandwidth system
bus and on-die L2 cache* , enables it to attain outstanding levels of performance. Plus, the AMD Athlon
processor delivers industry-leading integer, floating point, and 3D multimedia performance for x86
platforms.

*While all AMD Athlon processors currently being manufactured by AMD feature 256K of full-speed,
on-die L2 cache memory, previous versions, without on-die L2 cache, may still be commercially
available in some computer systems. Ask your computer manufacturer for details.

The AMD Athlon processor provides exceptional processing power on real-world, mainstream Microsoft®
Windows® compatible software, as well as computation-intensive applications for high-end desktops.
These high-end workstation applications include digital photo editing, digital video, commercial 3D
modeling, image compression, soft DVD, CAD, and speech recognition .

The Most Powerful Multimedia Experience in an x86 Platform
The AMD Athlon processor's ultimate x86 performance and next-generation features combine to give end
users an outstanding computing experience, whether running standard productivity software or the latest
leading-edge consumer and commercial applications.

Computing enthusiasts get exceptional performance for Internet applications, digital imaging, 3D gaming,
and personal creativity software. The AMD Athlon processor's advanced multimedia architecture and 3D
technology deliver rich images, fast frame rates, and accurate theater-quality sound. The revolutionary
system bus, now running as fast as 266MHz†, allows users to quickly and easily process Internet
content from DSL/cable modems and digital video imaging devices.

†Not all AMD Athlon processors are available with 266MHz system buses.

Business users get remarkable performance from AMD Athlon processor-based systems. Popular
programs for desktop publishing, database, accounting, and other demanding business applications
execute at fast speeds, resulting in exceptional levels of productivity. The enormous power of the AMD
Athlon processor's visual computing capabilities allows users to unleash their creativity and deliver high
impact Web designs and other dynamic communications to effectively reach and influence customers.

Tomorrow's Technology Today
The seventh-generation AMD Athlon processor is based on the industry's most advanced x86
microarchitecture. The following features and capabilities combine to give users of AMD Athlon
processor-based systems an extraordinary computing experience, as well as the confidence that their
systems are designed to meet their computing needs for years to come.

Microarchitecture: The AMD Athlon processor features a superpipelined, nine-issue superscalar
microarchitecture optimized for high clock frequencies. The AMD Athlon processor contains a
total of nine execution pipelines: three for address calculations, three for integer calculations,
and three for executing x87 (floating point), 3DNow!™ and MMX™ instructions.
System Bus:The AMD Athlon processor's system bus is the first x86 platform bus running at or
above 200MHz. At present, AMD Athlon processors are available with 266MHz and 200MHz
system buses. As one of the fastest x86 processor buses currently available, the design
delivers as high as 100 percent more peak bandwidth than any x86 system bus. It is designed
for scalable multiprocessing and leverages high-performance Alpha™ EV6 bus technology to
enable exceptional system performance.
Floating Point Engine: The AMD Athlon processor includes the first fully pipelined, superscalar
floating point engine for x86 platforms. The resulting floating point capability is the most
powerful ever delivered in an x86 processor.
Enhanced 3DNow!™ Technology: The AMD Athlon processor's enhanced 3DNow! technology
takes 3D multimedia performance to incredible heights and builds on the 21 instructions of
AMD's original 3DNow! technology-the first x86 instruction set to use superscalar SIMD floating
point techniques. Enhanced 3DNow! technology adds 24 instructions-19 to improve MMX integer
math calculations and enhance data movement for Internet streaming applications and 5 DSP
extensions for soft modem, soft ADSL, Dolby Digital, and MP3 applications.
Cache Architecture: The AMD Athlon processor boasts a 384K total full-speed on-chip system
cache including 128K L1 cache--four times that of Intel's Pentium® III processor--and 256K
on-chip full-speed L2 cache. This performance-enhancing cache design helps boost overall
system performance.
Double Data Rate (DDR) Memory: The natural evolution from PC100/PC133 SDRAM memory,
DDR memory enables unrivaled x86 performance while remaining price competitive. While
other types of SDRAM memory read and write only once per clock cycle, DDR technology
allows the memory to read and write twice per cycle. DDR memory is available from major
DRAM suppliers around the world.

Powering the Next Generation in Computing Platforms
The combination of exceptional performance, high clock frequencies, performance-enhancing cache
memory, impressive bus bandwidth, and a reliable design makes the AMD Athlon processor family a
powerful choice for high-end desktop systems, workstations, and servers.

The AMD Athlon processor offers the peace-of-mind reliability required by enterprise users and IT
managers. The AMD Athlon processor's system bus is also designed for scalable multiprocessing, with
the number of AMD Athlon processors in a multiprocessor system determined by chipset implementation.

High-performance AMD Athlon processor-based platforms provide an exceptional level of performance
and data-movement bandwidth for computation-intensive software used in such challenging applications
as digital imaging, Internet content development, enterprise computing, CAD/CAE, scientific/technical
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