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K7, Athlon, "Argon", "Orion" · AMD
AMD's answer to the Intel Pentium III ! Amazing processor, and 1st time in history,
when AMD was able to defeat Intel on architecture and performance.
Huge L1 cache at the time.
(2nd time was during AMD Zen 2 architecture, in 2019, which is 20 years later!)
AMD Athlon was the world's first processor to reach 1 GHz, costs $1299 upon release (Mar.2000).
2 result(s) recorded for this family.
Flagship: AMD Athlon(tm) processor 800 MHz
ST score/GHz: 311 · MT score/Watt: 5.19
| Specification | Value |
|---|---|
| Introduced | 1999 |
| Arch Generation | 7.0 |
| Architecture / Codename | K7, Athlon, "Argon", "Orion" |
| Cores / Threads | 1 |
| Technology Node | 250 nm, 180 nm |
| Die Size | 184 mm2 ("Argon"; CPU core without the L2 cache) |
| Transistors | 22 million |
| Frequency | 500-1000 MHz |
| Instructions | x86. MMX. 3Dnow! |
| TDP | ~65 watt |
| Cache L1 | 64 KB = 32 KB + 32 KB (i+d) |
| Cache L2 | 512 KB, L2 cache works at 1/3, 1/2 or 2/5 of CPU speed. |
| Memory Type | SDRAM-100/133 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | ~1.0 GB/s |
| Memory Size Typical | 64-256 MB |