Athlon is a family of CPUs designed by AMD, targeted mostly at the desktop market. The name "Athlon" has been largely unused as just "Athlon" since 2001 when AMD started naming its processors Athlon XP, but in 2008 began referring to single core 64-bit processors from the AMD Athlon X2 and AMD Phenom product lines. Later the name began being used for some APUs.

Features overview

APUs

APU features table

Desktop processors

Athlon (Model 1, K7 "Argon", 250 nm)

  • L2 cache always runs with 50% of CPU speed
  • All models support: MMX, Enhanced 3DNow!

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!Model number || Frequency || L2 cache || FSB <sup id="fn_1_back">1</sup> || Multiplier || Voltage || TDP || Socket || Release date || Order part number || Release<br/>price (USD)

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|Athlon 500 || 500&nbsp;MHz || rowspan="5" | 512 KB || rowspan="5" | 200 MT/s || 5x || rowspan="5" | 1.60 V || 42 W || rowspan="5" | Slot A || rowspan="3" | June 23, 1999 || AMD-K7500MTR51B C || $324

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|Athlon 550 || 550&nbsp;MHz || 5.5x || 46 W || AMD-K7550MTR51B C || $479

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|Athlon 600 || 600&nbsp;MHz || 6x || 50 W || AMD-K7600MTR51B C || $699

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|Athlon 650 || 650&nbsp;MHz || 6.5x || 54 W || August 9, 1999 || AMD-K7650MTR51B C || rowspan="2" | $849

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|Athlon 700 || 700&nbsp;MHz || 7x || 50 W || October 4, 1999 || AMD-K7700MTR51B C

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Athlon (Model 2, K75 "Pluto/Orion", 180 nm)

  • L2 cache runs with 50% (up to 700&nbsp;MHz), 40% (up to 850&nbsp;MHz) or 33% (up to 1000&nbsp;MHz) of CPU speed.
  • 900 - 1000&nbsp;MHz have Orion designation.
  • All models support: MMX, Enhanced 3DNow!

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!Model number || Frequency || L2 cache || FSB <sup id="fn_1_back">1</sup> || Multiplier || Voltage || TDP || Socket || Release date || Order part number || Release<br/>price (USD)

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|Athlon 550 || 550&nbsp;MHz || rowspan="10" | 512 KB || rowspan="10" | 200 MT/s || 5.5x || rowspan="5" | 1.60 V || 31 W || rowspan="10" | Slot A || rowspan="5" | November 29, 1999 || AMD-K7550MTR51B A ||

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|Athlon 600 || 600&nbsp;MHz || 6x || 34 W || AMD-K7600MTR51B A ||

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|Athlon 650 || 650&nbsp;MHz || 6.5x || 36 W || AMD-K7650MTR51B A ||

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|Athlon 700 || 700&nbsp;MHz || 7x || 39 W || AMD-K7700MTR51B A ||

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|Athlon 750 || 750&nbsp;MHz || 7.5x || 40 W || AMD-K7750MTR52B A || $799

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|Athlon 800 || 800&nbsp;MHz || 8x || rowspan="2" | 1.70 V || 48 W || January 6, 2000 || AMD-K7800MPR52B A ||

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|Athlon 850 || 850&nbsp;MHz || 8.5x || 50 W || February 11, 2000 || AMD-K7850MPR52B A || $849

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|Athlon 900 || 900&nbsp;MHz || 9x || rowspan="3" | 1.80 V || 60 W || rowspan="3" | March 6, 2000 || AMD-K7900MNR53B A || $899

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|Athlon 950 || 950&nbsp;MHz || 9.5x || 62 W || AMD-K7950MNR53B A || $999

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|Athlon 1000 || 1000&nbsp;MHz || 10x || 65 W || AMD-K7100MNR53B A || $1,299

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Athlon (Model 4, "Thunderbird", 180 nm)

  • L2 cache always runs with full CPU speed
  • All models support: MMX, Enhanced 3DNow!

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!Model number || Frequency || L2 cache || FSB <sup id="fn_1_back">1</sup> || Multiplier || Voltage || TDP || Socket || Release date || Order part number || Release<br/>price (USD)

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|Athlon 600 || 600&nbsp;MHz || rowspan="27" | 256 KB || rowspan="17" | 200 MT/s || 6x || rowspan="2" | 1.75 V || 38 W || Socket A || rowspan="17" | June 5, 2000 || A0600AMT3B ||

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| rowspan="2" |Athlon 650 || rowspan="2" | 650&nbsp;MHz || rowspan="2" | 6.5x || 38 W || Socket A || A0650AMT3B<br />A0650APT3B ||

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|1.70 V

|36.1 W

|Slot A

|AMD-A0650MPR24B A

|OEM

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| rowspan="2" |Athlon 700 || rowspan="2" | 700&nbsp;MHz || rowspan="2" | 7x || 1.75 V || 40 W || Socket A || A0700AMT3B<br />A0700APT3B ||

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|1.70 V

|38.3 W

|Slot A

|AMD-A0700MPR24B A

|OEM

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| rowspan="2" |Athlon 750 || rowspan="2" | 750&nbsp;MHz || rowspan="2" | 7.5x || 1.75 V || 43 W || Socket A || A0750AMT3B

A0750APT3B

| $319

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|1.70 V

|40.4 W

|Slot A

|AMD-A0750MPR24B A

|OEM

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| rowspan="2" |Athlon 800 || rowspan="2" | 800&nbsp;MHz || rowspan="2" | 8x || 1.75 V || 45 W || Socket A || A0800AMT3B<br />A0800APT3B || $359

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|1.70 V

|42.6 W

|Slot A

|AMD-A0800MPR24B A

|OEM

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| rowspan="2" |Athlon 850 || rowspan="2" | 850&nbsp;MHz || rowspan="2" | 8.5x || 1.75 V || 47 W || Socket A || A0850AMT3B<br />A0850APT3B || $507

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|1.70 V

|44.8 W

|Slot A

|AMD-A0850MPR24B A

|OEM

|-

| rowspan="2" |Athlon 900 || rowspan="2" | 900&nbsp;MHz || rowspan="2" | 9x || rowspan="6" | 1.75 V || rowspan="2" | 50 W || Socket A || A0900AMT3B<br />A0900APT3B

A0900DMT3B

| $589

|-

|Slot A

|AMD-A0900MMR24B A

|OEM

|-

| rowspan="2" |Athlon 950 || rowspan="2" | 950&nbsp;MHz || rowspan="2" | 9.5x || rowspan="2" | 52 W || Socket A || A0950AMT3B

A0950APT3B

A0950DMT3B

| $759

|-

|Slot A

|AMD-A0950MMR24B A

|OEM

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| rowspan="2" |Athlon 1000B || rowspan="3" | 1000&nbsp;MHz || rowspan="2" | 10x || rowspan="3" | 54 W || Socket A || A1000AMS3B<br />A1000AMT3B

A1000DMT3B

| $990

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|Slot A

|AMD-A1000MMR24B A

|OEM

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|Athlon 1000C || 266 MT/s || 7.5x || rowspan="10" | 1.75 V || rowspan="10" | Socket A || October 31, 2000 || A1000AMS3C<br />A1000AMT3C

A1000DMT3C

| $385

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|Athlon 1100 || 1100&nbsp;MHz || 200 MT/s || 11x || 55.1/60 W || August 14, 2000 || A1100AMS3B

A1100AMT3B

| $853

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|Athlon 1133 || 1133&nbsp;MHz || 266 MT/s || 8.5x || 63 W || October 31, 2000 || A1133AMS3C || $506

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|Athlon 1200B || rowspan="2" | 1200&nbsp;MHz || 200 MT/s || 12x || rowspan="3" | 66 W || October 17, 2000 || A1200AMS3B || $612

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|Athlon 1200C || rowspan="2" | 266 MT/s || 9x || October 31, 2000 || A1200AMS3C || $673

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|Athlon 1266 || 1266&nbsp;MHz || 9.5x || March 21, 2001|| A1266AMS3C ||

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|Athlon 1300 || 1300&nbsp;MHz || 200 MT/s || 13x || 68 W || rowspan="2" | March 21, 2001 || A1300AMS3B

A1300APS3B

| $318

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|Athlon 1333 || 1333&nbsp;MHz || 266 MT/s || 10x || 70 W || A1333AMS3C || $350

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|Athlon 1400B || rowspan="2" | 1400&nbsp;MHz || 200 MT/s || 14x || rowspan="2" | 72 W || rowspan="2" | June 6, 2001 || A1400AMS3B || $253

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|Athlon 1400C || 266 MT/s || 10.5x || A1400AMS3C || $253

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Athlon XP

Athlon 64

Athlon X2

Athlon II

Athlon (Piledriver)

"Trinity" (2012)

  • Platform "Virgo"
  • 32&nbsp;nm fabrication on GlobalFoundries SOI process
  • Socket FM2
  • CPU: Piledriver
  • L1 Cache: 16 KB Data per core and 64 KB Instructions per module
  • Die Size: , 1.303 Billion transistors
  • Support for up to four DIMMs of up to DDR3-1866 memory
  • 5 GT/s UMI
  • Integrated PCIe 2.0 controller, and Turbo Core technology for faster CPU/GPU operation when the thermal specification permits
  • MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AMD64, AMD-V, AES, CLMUL, AVX, XOP, FMA3, FMA4, F16C, ABM, BMI1, TBM

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! rowspan="2" |Model number

! rowspan="2" |Released

! rowspan="2" |Fab

! rowspan="2" |Step.

! rowspan="2" | [Modules/FPUs]

Cores/threads

! rowspan="2" | Clock

(GHz)

! rowspan="2" | Turbo

(GHz)

! colspan="2" | Cache