Athlon 64

Athlon 64

Athlon 64 3400+ "Newcastle" in Socket 754

Produced From 2004 to present

Common manufacturer(s) AMD

Max. CPU clock 1.0 GHz to 3.2 GHz

FSB speeds 800 MT/s to 1000 MT/s

Min. feature size 0.13µm to 65nm

Instruction set MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, x86-64, 3DNow!

Microarchitecture K8 Microarchitecture

Cores 1

Socket(s) Socket 754, Socket 939, Socket 940, Socket AM2

The Athlon 64 is an eighth-generation, AMD64-architecture microprocessor produced by AMD, released on September 23, 2003.[1] It is the third processor to bear the name Athlon, and the immediate successor to the Athlon XP.[2] The second processor (after the Opteron) to implement AMD64 architecture and the first 64-bit processor targeted at the average consumer,[3] it was AMD's primary consumer microprocessor, and competes primarily with Intel's Pentium 4, especially the "Prescott" and "Cedar Mill" core revisions. It is AMD's first K8, eighth-generation processor core for desktop and mobile computers.[4] Despite being natively 64-bit, the AMD64 architecture is backward-compatible with 32-bit x86 instructions.[5] Athlon 64s have been produced for Socket 754, Socket 939, Socket 940, and Socket AM2.