AMD Athlon X4 is a series of budget AMD microprocessors for personal computers. These processors are distinct from A-Series APUs of the same era due to the lack of iGPUs.
"Richland" (2013, 32 nm)
*
Socket FM2
Socket FM2 is a CPU socket used by AMD's desktop ''Trinity'' and ''Richland'' APUs to connect to the motherboard as well as Athlon X2 and Athlon X4 processors based on them. FM2 was launched on September 27, 2012. Motherboards which fea ...
* CPU: Two or four
Piledriver-cores
* GPU
TeraScale 3 (VLIW4)
* MMX, SSE(1,
2,
3, 3s,
4a, 4.1, 4.2),
AMD64,
AMD-V
x86 virtualization is the use of hardware-assisted virtualization capabilities on an x86/x86-64 CPU.
In the late 1990s x86 virtualization was achieved by complex software techniques, necessary to compensate for the processor's lack of hardware-as ...
,
AES,
AVX AVX may refer to:
Technology
* Advanced Vector Extensions, an instruction set extension in the x86 microprocessor architecture
** AVX2, an expansion of the AVX instruction set
** AVX-512, 512-bit extensions to the 256-bit AVX
* AVX Corporation, a m ...
(1, 1.1),
XOP, FMA(
4,
3),
CVT16,
F16C,
BMI(
ABM
ABM or Abm may refer to:
Companies
* ABM Industries, a US facility management provider
* ABM Intelligence, a UK software company
* Advantage Business Media, a US digital marketing and information services company
* Associated British Maltsters, ac ...
,
TBM), Turbo Core 3.0,
NX bit
The NX bit (no-execute) is a technology used in CPUs to segregate areas of memory for use by either storage of processor instructions or for storage of data, a feature normally only found in Harvard architecture processors. However, the NX bit is ...
*
PowerNow!
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AMD PowerNow! is AMD's dynamic frequency scaling and power saving technology for laptop processors. The CPU's clock speed and VCore are automatically decreased when the computer is under low load or idle, to save battery power, reduce ...
"Kaveri" (2014, 28 nm)
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Socket FM2+
Socket FM2+ (FM2b, FM2r2) is a zero insertion force CPU socket designed by AMD for their desktop "Kaveri" APUs (Steamroller-based) and Godavari APUs (Steamroller-based) to connect to the motherboard. The FM2+ has a slightly different pin configur ...
,
support for
PCIe 3.0
PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), officially abbreviated as PCIe or PCI-e, is a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard, designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X and AGP bus standards. It is the common mot ...
* Two or four CPU cores based on the
Steamroller
A steamroller (or steam roller) is a form of road roller – a type of heavy construction machinery used for leveling surfaces, such as roads or airfields – that is powered by a steam engine. The leveling/flattening action is achieved through ...
microarchitecture
*
AMD Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) 2.0
* Dual-channel (2× 64 Bit)
DDR3
Double Data Rate 3 Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DDR3 SDRAM) is a type of synchronous dynamic random-access memory (SDRAM) with a high bandwidth ("double data rate") interface, and has been in use since 2007. It is the higher-speed ...
memory controller
* Integrated custom
ARM Cortex-A5 co-processor
with
TrustZone
ARM (stylised in lowercase as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architectures for computer processors, configure ...
Security Extensions
"Carrizo" (2016, 28 nm)
*
Socket FM2+
Socket FM2+ (FM2b, FM2r2) is a zero insertion force CPU socket designed by AMD for their desktop "Kaveri" APUs (Steamroller-based) and Godavari APUs (Steamroller-based) to connect to the motherboard. The FM2+ has a slightly different pin configur ...
, support for
PCIe 3.0
PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), officially abbreviated as PCIe or PCI-e, is a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard, designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X and AGP bus standards. It is the common mot ...
* Four CPU cores based on the
Excavator
Excavators are heavy construction equipment consisting of a boom, dipper (or stick), bucket and cab on a rotating platform known as the "house". The house sits atop an undercarriage with tracks or wheels. They are a natural progression fro ...
microarchitecture
* Dual-channel (2× 64 Bit)
DDR3
Double Data Rate 3 Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DDR3 SDRAM) is a type of synchronous dynamic random-access memory (SDRAM) with a high bandwidth ("double data rate") interface, and has been in use since 2007. It is the higher-speed ...
memory controller
"Bristol Ridge" (2017, 28 nm)
*
Socket AM4
Socket AM4 is a PGA microprocessor socket used by AMD's central processing units (CPUs) built on the Zen (including Zen+, Zen 2 and Zen 3) and Excavator microarchitectures.
''AM4'' was launched in September 2016 and was designed to replace the ...
, support for PCIe 3.0
* Four CPU cores based on the Excavator microarchitecture
* Dual-channel
DDR4
Double Data Rate 4 Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DDR4 SDRAM) is a type of synchronous dynamic random-access memory with a high bandwidth ("double data rate") interface.
Released to the market in 2014, it is a variant of dynamic rando ...
memory controller
* MMX, SSE(1,
2,
3, 3s,
4a, 4.1, 4.2),
AMD64,
AMD-V
x86 virtualization is the use of hardware-assisted virtualization capabilities on an x86/x86-64 CPU.
In the late 1990s x86 virtualization was achieved by complex software techniques, necessary to compensate for the processor's lack of hardware-as ...
,
AES,
AVX AVX may refer to:
Technology
* Advanced Vector Extensions, an instruction set extension in the x86 microprocessor architecture
** AVX2, an expansion of the AVX instruction set
** AVX-512, 512-bit extensions to the 256-bit AVX
* AVX Corporation, a m ...
(1, 1.1, 2),
XOP, FMA(
4,
3),
CVT16,
F16C,
BMI(
ABM
ABM or Abm may refer to:
Companies
* ABM Industries, a US facility management provider
* ABM Intelligence, a UK software company
* Advantage Business Media, a US digital marketing and information services company
* Associated British Maltsters, ac ...
,
TBM), Turbo Core 3.0,
NX bit
The NX bit (no-execute) is a technology used in CPUs to segregate areas of memory for use by either storage of processor instructions or for storage of data, a feature normally only found in Harvard architecture processors. However, the NX bit is ...
See also
*
AMD Bulldozer
The AMD Bulldozer Family 15h is a microprocessor microarchitecture for the FX and Opteron line of processors, developed by AMD for the desktop and server markets. Bulldozer is the codename for this family of microarchitectures. It was released o ...
*
AMD Piledriver
*
AMD Accelerated Processing Unit
AMD Accelerated Processing Unit (APU), formerly known as Fusion, is a series of 64-bit microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), combining a general-purpose AMD64 central processing unit ( CPU) and integrated graphics processing unit ...
*
List of AMD FX microprocessors
AMD FX is a series of AMD microprocessors for personal computers. The following is a list of AMD FX brand microprocessors. Some APUs also carry an FX model name, but the term "FX" normally only refers to CPUs which are not just APUs with the iGPU d ...
References
External links
{{AMD processors
AMD x86 microprocessors