The AMD Athlon XP processor model 10 with QuantiSpeed architecture powers the next generation in computing platforms, delivering extreme performance for Windows XP.
The AMD Athlon XP processor model 10, based on leading edge 0.13 micron technology and increased on-chip cache, integrates the innovative design and manufacturing expertise of AMD to deliver improved performance while maintaining the stable and compatible Socket A infrastructure of the AMD Athlon processor.
Delivered in an OPGA package, the AMD Athlon XP processor model 10 delivers the integer, floating-point, and 3D multimedia performance for highly demanding applications running on x86 system platforms. The AMD Athlon XP processor model 10 delivers compelling performance for cutting-edge software applications that include high-speed Internet capability, digital content creation, digital photo editing, digital video, image compression, video encoding for streaming over the Internet, soft DVD, commercial 3D modeling, workstation-class computer-aided design (CAD), commercial desktop publishing, and speech recognition. The AMD Athlon XP processor model 10 also offers the scalability and reliability that IT managers and business users require for enterprise computing.
The AMD Athlon XP processor model 10 features a seventh-generation microarchitecture with an integrated, exclusive L2 cache, which supports the growing processor and system bandwidth requirements of emerging software, graphics, I/O, and memory technologies. The high-speed execution core of the AMD Athlon XP processor model 10 includes multiple x86 instruction decoders, a dual-ported 128-Kbyte split level-one (L1) cache, an exclusive 512-Kbyte L2 cache, three independent integer pipelines, three address calculation pipelines, and a superscalar, fully pipelined, out-of-order, three-way floating-point engine. The floating-point engine is capable of delivering outstanding performance on numerically complex applications.
The features of the AMD Athlon XP processor model 10 are QuantiSpeed architecture, 640 Kbytes of total, highperformance, full-speed, on-chip cache, an advanced 400 frontside bus (FSB) with a 3.2-Gigabyte per second system bus, or an advanced 333 FSB with a 2.7-Gigabyte per second system bus, and 3DNow! Professional technology. The AMD Athlon system bus combines the latest technological advances, such as point-to-point topology, source-synchronous packet-based transfers, and low-voltage signaling to provide an extremely powerful, scalable bus for an x86 processor.
The AMD Athlon XP processor model 10 is binary-compatible with existing x86 software and backwards compatible with applications optimized for MMX, SSE, and 3DNow! technology, Using a data format and single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) operations based on the MMX instruction model , the AMD Athlon XP processor model 10 can produce as many as four, 32-bit, single-precision floating-point results per clock cycle. The 3DNow! Professional technology implemented in the AMD Athlon XP processor model 10 includes new integer multimedia instructions and software-directed data movement instructions for optimizing such applications as digital content creation and streaming video for the internet, as well as new instructions for digital signal processing (DSP) and communications applications.
Features and Benefits
- High-speed Athlon XP processor
- Advanced nine-issue, superpipelined, superscalar x86 processor microarchitecture
- Fully pipelined floating-point unit
- Hardware data pre-fetch
- Advanced two-level translation look-aside buffer (TLB) structures