Assignment on AMD microprocessor K10 family

Introduction of AMD microprocessor K10 family

It can be noted that the ADM K10 family is considered as latest generation of these microprocessors. They are also known as x86 microprocessors. Moreover, it is a microprocessor that is based on the K8 microarchitecture. It is considered as one of the fastest microprocessor used in different kind of applications around the world. In this report, there is proper information about K10 family of AMD microprocessors. It will be started from its history and the move towards other parts like characteristics, benchmarks and advantages over other microprocessors (Scott, 2010).

History of AMD microprocessor K10 family

Another fact is that these microprocessor were introduced in the late 2007. Moreover, they are belonging from the quad-core third generation operons. Then after this, in the next two months AMD was released. It was considered as first Phenom quad-core microprocessor. Later on, in the next year there was introduction of a new CPU named as triple-core Phenom X3 CPU in 2008. Furthermore, in the end of 2008 there was introduction of middle class K10 microprocessor from AMD. It can be noted that the name of this microprocessor is same like the K8 by AMD. This microprocessor was highly efficient and more powerful than others. The next thing is that it was built on m K8 architecture (Mueller, 2013).

Characteristics of the microprocessor of AMD microprocessor K10 family

There are a lot of characteristics of this microprocessor because it is highly efficient and powerful. It can be noted that AMD microprocessor K10 is used in CPU of the system.  In this section there is complete information about its unique characteristics (Khan, 2011).

·         Its CPU name is AMD Opteron Processor 4171 HE

·         Its treading is about 1 CPU with 2 essential cores and also with two threads.

·         It can be noted that in CPU its frequency is about 2095.75 MHz. the multiplier of this processor is current 10.5.

·         The name of its architecture is about Stepping HY-D1 and it is considered in 45 nm technology

·         Its CPUID is about F.8.1 and also 10.8.

·         It came with high quality IA extension that include

·         It also contain three levels of caches that include L1D, L2 and L3

·         Caches with different associates

·         This microprocessor is also considered as retail type.

·         According to its motherboard characteristics, it is related to Microsoft Corporation Virtual Machine model.

·         It contains Socket number C32 and 1207

·         In its motherboard, there are about two bridges are present that is south and north bridge.

The BIOS name of this microprocessor is American Megatrend Inc. 098006

Memory configuration of AMD K10 family

·         The total size of this processor is about 1.4 GB

·         The type of memory it contains is EDO

·         The rate of frequency is about 199.6 MHz with a proper ratio of 1:1

·         The time of memory is about 3-3-3.

Performance improvement parameters of this microprocessor

The main thing is that in K10 microprocessors there are about different performance improvements.

The first one is related to the cores per die. It can be analysed that, K10 contains up to 6 cores per die. This means that there are about 12 cores per CPU. Moreover, another fact is that through this microprocessor it will become easy to integrate large level caches. It is present between all cores of this processor (Mueller, 2013).

Another thing is that in K10 microprocessor, a faster hyper transport link is present between them. This link will help to increase its speed at certain level.

Moreover, K10 microprocessor also contain high quality integrated memory controller. This controller can be configured easily as dual channel controller for the user. Moreover, it is also known as dual channel controllers. Another fact about the microprocessor is related to memory controller in K10 microprocessor. This memory controller is involved in supporting DDR3 memory of the system.

It can be seen that for creating latest generation of this family 0.045 processes are used. This is because these processes are providing better and high quality CPU frequency scaling (Khan, 2011).

Furthermore, another fact is that width of AMD floating point was increased up to 128 bits. This is because when this microprocessor is combined with other core improvement processors. It will help the system to increase its speed of process that is about 128 bit per cycle.

The next parameter is related to increase in branch prediction of the system and also out of order- execution.  This will help in system stability and reliability.

Moreover, one of the most important point about these microprocessors is that K10 family is also involved in power management features of the CPU. Due to this, CPU is able to perform various tasks at adjustable frequencies of the cores according to load, integrated memory and change in voltages. All of these cores are completely independent from the core voltages of the central processing unit. It also contains some power saving features (Mueller, 2013).

Advantages of AMD over Intel processors

·         The first thing is that K10 family is reasonable in price than Intel.

·         Moreover, the best thing is that AMD microprocessor are featured locked based

·         Another thing is that its whole CPU is not affected by the hardware exploits.

·         The integrated graphics of this microprocessor are extremely high and also quite better than AMD.

Disadvantages of AMD microprocessor over Intel

·         It can be noted that Intel processors are more efficient than AMD under same workload on the system.

·         Moreover, it can be noted that Intel contains quite high instruction per clock as compared with other CPU (Scott, 2010).

Conclusion of AMD microprocessor K10 family

Summing up all the discussion from above it is concluded that AMD microprocessor are quite efficient. In this report, K10 family of these microprocessors is explained in detail with complete information. Moreover, it also contain some information related to its configurations and characteristics.in the last section of the report, there is some information related to its advantages and disadvantages.