AMD 8 manual Overview, Chapter, Preliminary Information

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Preliminary Information

25175H —March 2003

AMD Athlon™ XP Processor Model 8 Data Sheet

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The AMD Athlon™ XP processor model 8 with QuantiSpeed™ architecture powers the next generation in computing platforms, delivering extreme performance for Windows® XP.

The AMD Athlon™ XP processor model 8, based on leading- edge 0.13 micron technology, integrates the innovative design and manufacturing expertise of AMD to deliver improved performance, lower power, and smaller die size 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 8 delivers the integer, floating-point, and 3D multimedia performance for highly demanding applications running on x86 system platforms. The AMD Athlon XP processor model 8 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 8 also offers the scalability and reliability that IT managers and business users require for enterprise computing.

The AMD Athlon XP processor model 8 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 8 includes multiple x86 instruction decoders, a dual-ported 128-Kbyte split level-one (L1) cache, an exclusive 256-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.

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