AMD Phenom™ Processor Competitive Comparison

	AMD Phenom™ Processors	Intel Core 2 Quad
Infrastructure	socket AM2+	Socket LGA 775
Process Technology	65 nanometer, SOI (silicon on insulator)	65 nanometer
Number of Transistors	~450 million	291 million
64-bit Instruction Set Support	Yes, AMD64 Technology	Yes, EM64T
Enhanced Virus Protection**	Yes	Yes, Execute Disable Bit
System Bus Technology	HyperTransport™ Technology up to 4000MT/s full duplex, or up to 16GB/s I/O Bandwidth	Front Side Bus up to 1333 MHz, Half duplex
Integrated Memory Controller	128-bit + 16-bit ECC unbuffered PC2 8500 (DDR2-1066); PC2 6400(DDR2-800), PC2 5300(DDR2-667), PC2 4200(DDR2-533), PC2 3200(DDR2-400)	No, Discrete logic device on motherboard
Total Processor-to-System Bandwidth	HyperTransport Technology: up to 4000MT/s full duplex, or up to 16GB/s I/O Bandwidth Memory bandwidth: up to 17.1 GB/s dual channel memory bandwidth Total: up to 33.1 GB/s	Total FSB: up to 10.7 GB/s
3D & Multimedia instructions	3DNow!™ technology, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4a	SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4
Chipset support	ATI: Radeon Series chipsets NVIDIA: Nforce Series chipsets	IntelP35, G35, X38, 975X, G965, P965, 963, 946 NVIDIA: Nforce Series chipsets
Total Designed Power (TDP)	125W, 95W, 65W	95W

**As part of a comprehensive security program, AMD strongly recommends enabling Enhanced Virus Protection (EVP) and using up to date third party anti-virus software.

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