Transcript Document 7700702

AMD-K7 PROCESSOR
Athlon
Charles Bovy
24 december 1999
AMD Athlon™ Integer Performance
SPECint_95base
AMD Athlon 700*
with 266 bus and projected compiler and prefetch optimizations
AMD Athlon 700
AMD Athlon 650
AMD Athlon 600
PIII 600
PIII Xeon 550
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
Source: AMD and *AMD preliminary results. Configuration: See backup page
35
40
AMD Athlon ™ Floating Point
Performance
SPECfp_base95
with 266 bus and projected compiler & prefetch optimizations
AMD Athlon 700*
AMD Athlon 700
AMD Athlon 650
AMD Athlon 600
PIII 600
PIII Xeon 550
0
10
20
30
Source: AMD and *AMD preliminary results. Configuration: See backup page
40
50
RISC vs x86 Performance
SPECint95base: x86 vs RISC
35
60%
667 MHz
21264
30
575 MHz
21264
700 MHz
AMD Athlon
25
40%
450 MHz
PII Xeon
300 MHz
21164
300 MHz
PII
333 MHz
PII
200 MHz
PPro
5
x86
20%
Delta
10%
133 MHz
Pentium
Sep-95
0%
Dec-96
Jul-97
Mar-98
Nov-98
Aug-99
Source: Microprocessor Report and AMD Preliminary Results
RISC
30%
500 MHz
21164
15
0
600 MHz
21164
600 MHz
21164
20
10
50%
Process Technology
• 0.25-micron
• six-layer metal
• 22 million transistors
• die size of 184 mm2