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AMD Athlon™ II Processors
Do more in less time with amazing multi-core performance at a great price
Do more of the things you want to in less time and enhance your digital life with the multi-core performance and energy efficiency of AMD Athlon™ II processor-based desktop systems. Combined with superior ATI Radeon™ HD graphics technology, systems based on the AMD Athlon™ II processor deliver a vivid visual experience, superior multi-tasking, and exceptional digital media performance with next-generation energy efficiency.
Features & Benefits
Better Multi-Tasking Means Increased Office Productivity
Setting the Pace in Digital Media
Get more Power using less Power
AMD PowerNow!™ Technology (Cool’n’Quiet™ Technology)
AMD64 Technology
Enhanced Virus Protection*
AMD Athlon Processor Architecture Performance
Ready for the 64-bit future
Purchase with Confidence
AMD Athlon™ II Processor Product Brief
Exceptional Performance
Do more in less time and take advantage of true multi-core performance and true multitasking capability
Get a PC experience optimized to deliver the benefits of the Microsoft® Windows® 7 operating system
Convert music, HD video, and other media fast2,4
Manage all your home media files and run the software you need to create, share, and enjoy your media
Get superior performance and enjoyment from your PC experience with next generation processor technology for hassle free, efficient computing
With next-generation processor technology you can enjoy superior application performance
Convert music and HD video fast
Get superior performance on many of today’s most popular applications for an amazing experience
Enjoy a responsive PC with next-generation AMD Direct Connect Architecture
Get Microsoft® Windows® 7 support, optimized to deliver the benefits of Microsoft’s latest OS7
Windows® 7 is optimized for AMD Athlon™ II processors, enabling a fast and responsive PC
Experience a simple and engaging everyday PC experience with Windows® 7 Home Premium operating system
Windows® 7 is tuned to make the most out of the power management features, such as AMD PowerNow!™ 3.0 Technology, which are built into AMD Athlon™ II processors
For consumers who want additional features, Microsoft® recommends Windows® 7 Professional operating system
Stay connected to your friends, family, and even your online digital media
Browse the Internet, send email, run programs, watch movies, and play multiplayer games
Let the AMD APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) Media Explorer bring your media to life as you share and explore cherished memories
Talk to friends and family through Internet telephone and Skype
Chat online and share with friends on social networking websites like Facebook
Transfer your media quickly to notebooks, smart phones, and portable media players
Manage all your media files and run the software you need to create, share, and enjoy your media, and connect your gadgets. Watch live TV or record and play back movies, TV, and music from your hard drive
Listen to music or watch live and recorded TV, DVDs, photos, and more3,4
Stream music and HD video1,2
Create music and convert HD video files for playback on iPod and other portable media players2,4
See, create, and share online photos, music, and videos4
Record music, movies, and TV programs to your hard drive3,4
View, edit, and print digital photos and images2
Efficiency
Take advantage of energy efficiency you’ll feel good about for a green, cool, and quiet PC experience
Save energy, get the most out of your budget, and help reduce heat and noise to reduce the environmental impact of your PC
Enjoy performance on demand when you need it and power savings when you don’t using next-generation AMD desktop power management technologies
Get improvements over previous-generation AMD Athlon™ II processors: slash your power consumption by up to 50% when doing basic tasks, 40% when running heavy load, and 50% when idle6
Conserve with Energy Star® 5.0-compliant, idle-power improvements such as low core voltages and enhanced cache power management
Enjoy a superior desktop experience. Get the most out of your budget with energy efficiency you’ll feel good about for a green, cool, and quiet PC experience
Enjoy a cool, quiet, and green PC experience
Enjoy your PC with confidence knowing you’re using cutting-edge, energy-efficient technologies that use low power and help reduce environmental impact
Help reduce heat and noise
Help extend the life of your system with AMD PowerNow!™ 3.0 Technology, which manages power consumption and helps maximizes performance
Enjoy the benefits of energy efficiency
Enjoy your PC and be energy efficient with next-generation AMD power management technologies
AMD PowerNow!™ 3.0 technology can enable dramatic power management improvements, automatically, with virtually no noticeable performance impact with efficient 45nm multi-core design, superior power management, and additional performance states
Cool‘n’Quiet™ Technology – Optimized performance states help save energy while minimizing the latency and overhead of power management. The processor can efficiently respond to user demands, maximizing performance to deliver a superior PC user experience
AMD CoolCore™ Technology automatically reduces processor energy consumption by dynamically activating or turning off parts of the processor
AMD Smart Fetch Technology enables processor cores to share data before entering a halting state so active cores don’t have to activate to retrieve data
Dual Dynamic Power Management™ – helps improve platform efficiency by providing on demand memory performance while enabling decreased system power consumption
Multi-Point Thermal Control helps reduce speed and heat when temperature exceeds predefined limits, enabling a cool and quiet PC experience
Take full advantage of amazing energy efficiency that uses less power than the previous generation of AMD Athlon™ processors, and enjoy environmentally friendly, energy-efficient performance. Use your PC with confidence knowing you’re using cutting-edge green technologies that use low power and help reduce environmental impact
- Use up to 40% less energy when running heavy loads like playing the latest 3D PC games or rendering HD content
- Slash power consumption by up to 50% when doing basic PC tasks like browsing the Internet or checking email
- Enjoy significant power savings under light processor loads, or even while running applications in high definition
- Get up to 50% power savings during idle6 with low core voltages and enhanced cache power management
- Get Energy Star® 5.0-compliant, idle-power improvements with low core voltages and enhanced cache power management
AMD Phenom™ II Processors
Unbeatable multi-core value with AMD Phenom™ II processors. They deliver The Ultimate Visual Experience™ for high definition entertainment, advanced multitasking performance, and power-saving innovations for smaller, cooler machines that are energy efficient.
Features & Benefits
Smoother faster experience, even when running complex software application with native Multi-Core Technology
Scaled performance to conserve PC power with HyperTransport® 3.0 Technology
Hear your music, not your PC with AMD PowerNow!™ Technology (Cool’n’Quiet™ Technology)
Prevent the spread of certain viruses and strengthen your network integrity with Enhanced Virus Protection (EVP)
Visual Experience
Live your life in HD. AMD Phenom™ II is for high definition entertainment, gaming, creativity, and beyond. With AMD Phenom™ II processors as the foundation, you'll enjoy a new level of responsiveness and visual intensity. AMD puts high definition computing within everyone’s reach.
Superior technologies for HD video. Enjoy a superior high definition experience for HD videos on you PC. AMD Phenom™ II processor are the powerful engine behind your fidelity, high definition video entertainment experience. Only AMD puts the Ultimate Visual Experience™ for HD video within your reach.
Enjoy entertainment beyond your media library. Get HD content online, offline, wherever you want it, however you want it. Your system can handle whatever you dish out - and serve it up on screen in full, high definition glory.*
Perfect chemistry. Combine AMD Phenom™ II processors and ATI Radeon™ HD graphics to really see the difference. Enjoy smooth video, brilliant videos and immersive games. AMD unleashes visual clarity and responsiveness for what you want to do.
Performance
Do it all. AMD Phenom™ II processors have the power to do it all. Featuring next-generation quad-core design, they crush even the most demanding tasks. So design it, render it, play it, create it, stream it, HD it.* With AMD Phenom™ II processors, if you can imagine it, you can do it.
Energy Efficient
Make a choice you can feel good about. AMD Phenom™ II processors were designed with energy efficiency in mind. Capitalizing on AMD's leadership in energy efficiency, they incorporate all of the latest technology that gives you performance when you need it and save power when you don’t.
Look for ENERGY STAR® with AMD. Thanks to AMD's power-saving innovations, you can count on machines based on AMD Phenom™ II processors for the energy efficiency you want and the performance you need.
AMD A-Series APU Processor-in-a-Box
Choose AMD to get the Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) in your next PC project. AMD’s A-Series processors combine dual-core and quad-core CPUs and AMD Radeon™ Graphics on a single power-efficient chip to enable premium performance and low power consumption.
Now you can get the best of all worlds. The performance of multicore CPU technology and the brilliance of premium AMD Radeon™ graphics technology — all in a single chip, at a great price!
Features and Benefits
Build or upgrade your system with an AMD Elite A-Series APU processor that fits your needs:
AMD A4 Processors feature:
Enjoy music, photos and videos fast with next generation performance
Enjoy smooth, stabilized videos with AMD Steady Video technology 2.01
Stream fast, browse and share with enhanced Windows 8 apps, media and more
USB 3.0 makes it easy to share photos and videos
AMD A6 Processors include all of the above features, plus:
Stay productive when compressing files3
Experience smoother playback for videos and enhanced quality for photos with the AMD HD Media Accelerator
Connect to multiple displays with AMD Eyefinity Technology3
Watch movies, play games and get more done with Windows 8 apps, media and more
AMD A8 Processors include all of the above features, plus:
Enter the fray with ultra-immersive AMD HD3D gaming4
Blaze past your opponents with DirectX® 11-capable graphics
Get up to twice the graphics performance with AMD Radeon™ Dual Graphics Technology2
AMD A10 Processors include all of the above features, plus:
Tear through everyday applications with AMD Turbo Core 3.0 technology
Even the odds with up to twice the graphics performance with AMD Radeon™ Dual Graphics Technology2
Blaze through games and apps with up to 4.4GHz of blistering speed
AMD FX Processor Model Number and Feature Comparison
AMD FX Processors | ||||||
| Model Number | Frequency | Total L2 Cache | L3 Cache | Packaging | Thermal Design Power | CMOS Technology |
| FX 9590 | 4.7/5.0 GHz | 8MB | 8MB | socket AM3+ | 220W | 32nm SOI |
| FX 9370 | 4.4/4.7 GHz | 8MB | 8MB | socket AM3+ | 220W | 32nm SOI |
| FX 8350 | 4.0/4.2 GHz | 8MB | 8MB | socket AM3+ | 125W | 32nm SOI |
| FX 8320 | 3.5/4.0 GHz | 8MB | 8MB | socket AM3+ | 125W | 32nm SOI |
| FX 6350 | 3.9/4.2 GHz | 6MB | 8MB | socket AM3+ | 125W | 32nm SOI |
| FX 6300 | 3.5/4.1 GHz | 6MB | 8MB | socket AM3+ | 95W | 32nm SOI |
| FX 6200 | 3.8/4.1 GHz | 6MB | 8MB | socket AM3+ | 125W | 32nm SOI |
| FX 6100 | 3.3/3.9 GHz | 6MB | 8MB | socket AM3+ | 95W | 32nm SOI |
| FX 4350 | 4.2/4.3 GHz | 4MB | 8MB | socket AM3+ | 125W | 32nm SOI |
| FX 4300 | 3.8/4.0 GHz | 4MB | 4MB | socket AM3+ | 95W | 32nm SOI |
| FX 4130 | 3.8/3.9 Ghz | 4MB | 4MB | socket AM3+ | 125W | 32nm SOI |
| FX 4100 | 3.6/3.8 Ghz | 4MB | 8MB | socket AM3+ | 95W | 32nm SOI |
AMD64 Technology | Yes |
| Simultaneous 32- & 64-bit computing | Yes |
| L1 Cache (Instruction + Data) per core | 128KB (64KB + 64KB) |
| L2 Cache (1MB per core) | 8MB or 6MB or 4MB |
| L3 Cache | 8MB (shared L3) |
HyperTransport™ Technology | HyperTransport™ Technology up to 4000MT/s full duplex, or up to 16.0GB/s I/O Bandwidth |
| Integrated DDR3 Memory Controller | Yes |
Memory Controller Width | 128-bit |
| Type of Memory Supported | Up to DDR3 18661 |
| Memory Bandwidth | Up to 21 GB/s dual channel memory bandwidth |
| Total Processor-to-system Bandwidth (HyperTransport plus memory bandwidth) | Up to 37 GB/s |
| Process Technology | 32 nanometer, SOI (silicon-on-insulator) Technology |
| Packaging | AM3+ |
| Thermal Design Power | 220W, 125W, & 95W |
| Manufacturing Sites | GLOBALFOUNDRIES Dresden, Germany |


