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AMD64 (64-bit)

The AMD64 core provides leading-edge performance for both 32-bit and 64-bit applications

AMD64 technology provides full-speed support for x86 code base without compromising performance
40-bit physical addresses, 48-bit virtual addresses
Sixteen 128-bit SSE/SSE2/SSE3 registers
AMD Digital Media XPress™ provides support for SSE, SSE2, SSE3 and MMX instructions

A high-bandwidth, low-latency integrated DDR memory controller

Supports PC-3200 (DDR-400), PC-2700 (DDR-333), PC-2100 (DDR-266) or PC-1600 (DDR-1600) SDRAM unbuffered DIMMs (socket 939); supports PC2-5300 (DDR2-667), PC2-4200 (DDR2-533) or PC2-3200 (DDR2-400) SDRAM unbuffered DIMMs (socket AM2)
Support for 64-bit DDR (socket 939) or DDR2 (socket AM2) SDRAM memory
Up to 6.4GB/s (socket 939) or 10.6GB/s (socket AM2) memory bandwidth

HyperTransport™ technology for high speed I/O communication

One 16-bit link up to 2000MHz bidirectional
Up to 8GB/s HyperTransport™ I/O bandwidth
Up to 14.4GB/s (socket 939) or 18.6GB/s (socket AM2) total delivered processor-to-system bandwidth (HyperTransport bus + memory bus)

Large high performance on-chip cache

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