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Athlon X4

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Produced
  
From 2013 to present

Common manufacturer(s)
  
GlobalFoundries

Min. feature size
  
32 nm to 28 nm

Designed by
  
AMD

Max. CPU clock rate
  
3.1 GHz to 4.2 GHz

Instruction set
  
AMD64/x86-64, MMX(+), SSE1, 2, 3, 3s, 4.1, 4.2, 4a, AES, CLMUL, AVX, XOP, FMA3, FMA4, CVT16/F16C, BMI1, ABM, TBM

AMD Athlon X4 is a series of budget AMD microprocessors for personal computers. Those processors are originally APUs without iGPUs.

Contents

"Richland" (2013, 32 nm)

  • Socket FM2
  • CPU: Two or four Piledriver-cores
  • GPU TeraScale 3 (VLIW4)
  • MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AMD64, AMD-V, AES, AVX, AVX1.1, XOP, FMA3, FMA4, CVT16, F16C, BMI (Bit Manipulation instructions), ABM (Advanced Bit Manipulation), TBM (Trailing Bit Manipulation instructions), Turbo Core 3.0, NX bit
  • PowerNow!
  • HD Media Accelerator, Hybrid Graphics
  • GPU based on 4-way VLIW architecture first introduced with the HD 6900

    • "Kaveri" (2014, 28 nm)

  • Socket FM2+, support for PCIe 3.0
  • Two or four CPU cores based on the Steamroller microarchitecture
  • Three to eight Compute Units (CUs) based on Graphics Core Next (GCN) microarchitecture; 1 Compute Unit (CU) consists of 64 Unified Shader Processors : 4 Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) : 1 Render Output Unit (ROPs)
  • AMD Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) 2.0
  • SIP blocks: Unified Video Decoder, Video Coding Engine, TrueAudio
  • Dual-channel (2× 64 Bit) DDR3 memory controller
  • Integrated custom ARM Cortex-A5 co-processor with TrustZone Security Extensions
  • Select models support Hybrid Graphics technology by using a Radeon R7 240 or R7 250 discrete graphics card
  • Display controller: AMD Eyefinity 2, 4K Ultra HD support, DisplayPort 1.2 Support

    • "Carrizo" (2016, 28 nm)

  • Socket FM2+, support for PCIe 3.0
  • Four CPU cores based on the Excavator microarchitecture
  • Dual-channel (2× 64 Bit) DDR3 memory controller

    • References

    Athlon X4 Wikipedia
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