AMD ATHLON 8 - Manual (Page 13)

Chapter 1 Overview 1
25175H—March 2003 AMD Athlon™ XP Processor Model 8 Data Sheet
Preliminary Information
1 Overview
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
p e r fo r m a n c e , l owe r p owe r, a n d s m a l l e r d i e s i z e w h i l e
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,
s o f t DV D, c o m m e rc i a l 3 D m o d e l i n g , wo rk s t a t i o n -c l a s s
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.
T h e A M D A t h l o n X P p r o c e s s o r m o d e l 8 f e a t u re s 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.