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AMD Opteron X4 Architecture

AMD Opteron X4 Architecture. Fang Li. Outline. History of Opteron. 1. Features of K10. 2. AMD Balanced Smart Cache. 3. Memory Optimizer Tech. 4. The first AMD Opteron processor (single core) is released on April 22, 2003 .

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AMD Opteron X4 Architecture

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  1. AMD Opteron X4 Architecture Fang Li

  2. Outline History of Opteron 1 Features of K10 2 AMD Balanced Smart Cache 3 Memory Optimizer Tech 4

  3. The first AMD Opteron processor (single core) is released on April 22, 2003. • Opteron is AMD server and workstation processor line, and was the first processor to implement the AMD64 instruction set architecture

  4. AMD launched its Third-Generation Quad-core Opteron implementing K10 architecture on September 10, 2007 • The new K10 architecture is based on the K8 (a.k.a. AMD64) architecture with some enhancements. • AMD never released an architecture called K9, from K8 they jumped to K10.

  5. New features introduced by K10[1]

  6. Shared L3 Memory Cache[2] • K8 architecture used separated cache. Each CPU core has its own L2 memory cache. • K10 architecture adds a shared L3 memory cache inside the CPU.

  7. Independent Memory Controller[3] • Dual-channel memory, a way to access two memory modules simultaneously, as if two 64-bit memory modules became one single 128-bit module. • Since there are benefits, there is also a problem

  8. Reference • [1] Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor Key Features http://www.amd.com/us/products/server/processors/opteron/Pages/3rd-gen-server-features.aspx.[2] Inside AMD64 Architecture(K8 architecture) http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/324/7.[3] Inside AMD K10 Architecturehttp://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/480

  9. Thank You !

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