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Quick History Recap of Athlon 64's

Big.Wayne

Big.Wayne

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Are there any AMD guru's in the house, I would just like to refresh myself on the history of the Athlon 64.

When was the A64 first hard launched? I believe it was socket 754 but not sure of the year (2002/2003?) also what was the codenames of the socket 754 series? I think one of the last 754 CPU's was Clawhammer? Was there any FX series on 754 etc?

Then when did Socket 939 CPU get hard launched and what was the specs please, I have vague memorys of everyone banging on about Winchester (Winnie's :rolleyes: ) then there was Venice/San-Diego and finally Opterons (Venus cores?).

And lastly the FX series, I remember the FX-57 and FX-60 but not sure what the FX-55 was or indeed the FX-53?

Thanks in Advance! :)

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Far as i remember it was the 940 FX 51 and 754 claw/sledgehammer, can't remember the speed of the first 754. I think the first 939 was Newcastle then Winchester, Venice then San Diego, not too sure when and what order Toledo and Manchester, Windsor, orleans etc.. came though. I think the A64 was introduced in 2003.
 
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First 754 chips were the clawhammers, the first of these was released in 2003, a 3200+ iirc.

On the desktop 754 platform, the following chips were released. The 2800+, 3000+, 3200+, 3400+ and the 3700+

Apart from the 3700+, the rest of the 754 range was eventually changed to the newcastle core, at the expense of 512Kb of cache, but gaining another 200mhz clock speed.

Towards the end of the shelf life of the platform, the venice core made its way to socket 754, the fastest of these chips being the rare 3400+ which was possibly only available to OEM system builders.
 
There was an FX-55 (2.6Ghz, 1mb cache), FX-53 (2.4), and FX-51(2.2), latter two were socket 940 though iirc. FX-55 was 939 only.

939 -

Newcastle - 130nm - 512k L2 Cache
Clawhammer - 130nm - 1mb L2 Cache
Winchester - first 90nm - 512k cache
(Unsure if other 90nm 1mb variant)
Venice - 90nm with SSE3 - 512k cache
San Diego - 90nm with SSE3 - 1mb cache

Improved mem controllers with each new gen..

Venus (opty) core is the same as the San Diego, just hand picked for servers.
 
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Athlon 64 FX models


Sledgehammer (130 nm SOI)
CPU-Stepping: C0, CG
L1-Cache: 64 + 64 KiB (Data + Instructions)
L2-Cache: 1024 KiB, fullspeed
MMX, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, AMD64
Socket 940, 800 MHz HyperTransport (HT800)
Registered DDR-SDRAM required
VCore: 1.50/1.55 V
Power Consumption (TDP): 89 Watt max
First Release: September 23, 2003
Clockrate: 2200 MHz (FX-51, C0), 2400 MHz (FX-53, C0 and CG)

Clawhammer (130 nm SOI)
CPU-Stepping: CG
L1-Cache: 64 + 64 KiB (Data + Instructions)
L2-Cache: 1024 KiB, fullspeed
MMX, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, AMD64
Socket 939, 1000 MHz HyperTransport (HT1000)
VCore: 1.50 V
Power Consumption (TDP): 89 Watt (FX-55:104 Watt)
First Release: June 1, 2004
Clockrate: 2400 MHz (FX-53), 2600 MHz (FX-55)

San Diego (90 nm SOI)
CPU-Stepping: E4, E6
L1-Cache: 64 + 64 KiB (Data + Instructions)
L2-Cache: 1024 KiB, fullspeed
MMX, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Cool'n'Quiet, NX Bit
Socket 939, 1000 MHz HyperTransport (HT1000)
VCore: 1.35 V or 1.40 V
Power Consumption (TDP): 104 Watt max
First Release: April 15, 2005
Clockrate: 2600 MHz (FX-55), 2800 MHz (FX-57)

Toledo (90 nm SOI)
Dual-core CPU

CPU-Stepping: E6
L1-Cache: 64 + 64 KiB (Data + Instructions), per core
L2-Cache: 1024 KiB fullspeed, per core
MMX, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Cool'n'Quiet, NX Bit
Socket 939, 1000 MHz HyperTransport (HT1000)
VCore: 1.30 V - 1.35 V
Power Consumption (TDP): 110 Watt max
First Release: January 10, 2006
Clockrate: 2600 MHz (FX-60)

Windsor (90 nm SOI)
Dual-core CPU

CPU-Stepping: F2
L1-Cache: 64 + 64 KiB (Data + Instructions), per core
L2-Cache: 1024 KiB fullspeed, per core
MMX, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Cool'n'Quiet, NX Bit, AMD Virtualization
Socket AM2, 1000 MHz HyperTransport (HT1000)
VCore: 1.30 V - 1.35 V
Power Consumption (TDP): 125 Watt max
First Release: May 23, 2006
Clockrate: 2800MHz (FX-62)

Windsor (90 nm SOI) - Quad FX platform
Dual-core, dual CPUs (four cores total)

CPU-Stepping: F3
L1-Cache: 64 + 64 KiB (Data + Instructions), per core
L2-Cache: 1024 KiB fullspeed, per core
MMX, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Cool'n'Quiet, NX Bit, AMD Virtualization
Socket F (1207 FX), 2000 MHz HyperTransport (HT2000)
VCore: 1.35 V - 1.40 V
Power Consumption (TDP): 125 Watt max per CPU
First Release: November 30, 2006
Clockrate: 2600MHz (FX-70), 2800MHz (FX-72), 3000MHz (FX-74)

Athlon 64 models

Clawhammer (130 nm SOI)
CPU-Stepping: C0, CG
L1-Cache: 64 + 64 KiB (Data + Instructions)
L2-Cache: 1024 KiB, fullspeed
MMX, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, AMD64, Cool'n'Quiet, NX Bit (only CG)
Socket 754, 800 MHz HyperTransport (HT800)
Socket 939, 1000 MHz HyperTransport (HT1000)
VCore: 1.50 V
Power Consumption (TDP): 89 Watt max
First Release: September 23, 2003
Clockrate: 2000 - 2600 MHz

Newcastle (130 nm SOI)
Also possible: ClawHammer-512 (Clawhammer with partially disabled L2-Cache)

CPU-Stepping: CG
L1-Cache: 64 + 64 KiB (Data + Instructions)
L2-Cache: 512 KiB, fullspeed
MMX, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, AMD64, Cool'n'Quiet, NX Bit
Socket 754, 800 MHz HyperTransport (HT800)
Socket 939, 1000 MHz HyperTransport (HT1000)
VCore: 1.50 V
Power Consumption (TDP): 89 Watt max
First Release: 2004
Clockrate: 1800 - 2400 MHz

Winchester (90 nm SOI)
CPU-Stepping: D0
L1-Cache: 64 + 64 KiB (Data + Instructions)
L2-Cache: 512 KiB, fullspeed
MMX, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, AMD64, Cool'n'Quiet, NX Bit
Socket 939, 1000 MHz HyperTransport (HT1000)
VCore: 1.40 V
Power Consumption (TDP): 67 Watt max
First Release: 2004
Clockrate: 1800 - 2200 MHz

Venice (90 nm SOI)
CPU-Stepping: E3, E6
L1-Cache: 64 + 64 KiB (Data + Instructions)
L2-Cache: 512 KiB, fullspeed
MMX, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Cool'n'Quiet, NX Bit
Socket 754, 800 MHz HyperTransport (HT800)
Socket 939, 1000 MHz HyperTransport (HT1000)
VCore: 1.35 V or 1.40 V
Power Consumption (TDP): 67 Watt max
First Release: April 4, 2005
Clockrate: 1800 - 2400 MHz

San Diego (90 nm SOI)
CPU-Stepping: E4, E6
L1-Cache: 64 + 64 KiB (Data + Instructions)
L2-Cache: 1024 KiB, fullspeed
MMX, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Cool'n'Quiet, NX Bit
Socket 939, 1000 MHz HyperTransport (HT1000)
VCore: 1.35 V or 1.40 V
Power Consumption (TDP): 89 Watt max
First Release: April 15, 2005
Clockrate: 2200 - 2600 MHz

Orleans (90 nm SOI)
CPU-Stepping: F2
L1-Cache: 64 + 64 KiB (Data + Instructions)
L2-Cache: 512 KiB, fullspeed
MMX, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Cool'n'Quiet, NX Bit, AMD Virtualization
Socket AM2, 1000 MHz HyperTransport (HT1000)
VCore: 1.35 V or 1.40 V
Power Consumption (TDP): 62 Watt max
First Release: May 23, 2006
Clockrate: 2000 - 2600 MHz

Lima (65 nm SOI)
CPU-Stepping: G1
L1-Cache: 64 + 64 KiB (Data + Instructions)
L2-Cache: 512 KiB, fullspeed
MMX, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Cool'n'Quiet, NX Bit, AMD Virtualization
Socket AM2, 1000 MHz HyperTransport (HT1000)
VCore: 1.25/1.35/1.40V
Power Consumption (TDP): 45 Watt max
First Release: February 20, 2007
Clockrate: 2000 - 2400 MHz

:)
 
yup, i had a 3200+ in october 2003, got a couple other chips inbetween that and getting a 3500+ newcastle in june/july time 2004. that chip did 2.75Ghz on water, 2.6 on air. We've sure come a LONG way on clock speeds since they huh :p

lol, intel were just as bad, p4 i think i had before or around the same time as the first ath 64 a 2.8c(no way before) would do 3.5GHz on air, got a prescott 3.2 at some point that did 3.8Ghz, then a cedar mill (is that what 930's are) which was 3 or 3.2Ghz stock and did around 4Ghz stable dual core with a shedload of heat.

clock speeds have gone no where lately. while netburst in general sucked, intel gained a lot of experience at getting chips to work at high speeds with less signal leakage, which seems to have resulted in very capable conroe's. tis the only possibly downfall i see for AMD's chips come september(ish). higher ipc, and faster than conroe is fine, but if they don't hit 3.6Ghz on a £200 model on air they won't be any good for us :(
 
Hefner said:
On the desktop 754 platform, the following chips were released. The 2800+, 3000+, 3200+, 3400+ and the 3700+
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I believe there was also a rather rare 3500+ variant which was a speed-binned 3700+, I only say this because someone on the forums claimed to have one a year or two (probably nearer two) ago. I had previously thought that only socket 939 came in a 3500+ variant but apparantly there was a socket 754 version. :)
 
semi-pro waster said:
I believe there was also a rather rare 3500+ variant which was a speed-binned 3700+, I only say this because someone on the forums claimed to have one a year or two (probably nearer two) ago. I had previously thought that only socket 939 came in a 3500+ variant but apparantly there was a socket 754 version. :)
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Hmm, quite possibly. The majority of 3500's were 939's, but I remember something about some 754's at 3500, but it might just be me confusing 2 things together.
 
Justintime said:
Lucky girl, too bad she prolly dosen't appreciate it like a true geek would? :D
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My Folding@Home account appreciates it. :p

And she probably counts as a true geek as well. She's been using computers since the late 70s. She's got a manual for an Altair kicking around somewhere. :eek:
 
i had a fairly unique 3600+ 939 chip. none were available retail, it was a pre release "fx51" on 939 that had a production date that was before 754 was released, and it still hit like 2.6Ghz :p
 
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