AMD 3800 - Processor - 1 x Athlon 64 Instruction sheet

Publication #: 30579 Revision: 3.74
Issue Date: March 2007
Mark W. Welker
Johann Pais
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AMD Processor
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Contents 4
Contents
Revision History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
About This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Audience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Life of Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
AMD64 Single Socket Processor Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
AMD Quad FX Platform with
Dual Socket Direct Connect Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Benchmarking Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Benchmark Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Benchmarking System Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Test System Configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Windows Vista™ Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
BIOS Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
RAID Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
Operating System Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
Windows® XP Professional Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
BIOS Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
RAID Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Operating System Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Driver Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
Video Card Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Benchmark Installation and Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Windows Vista, 64-Bit Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
CINEBENCH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Crafty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Panorama Factory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
POV-Ray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

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Windows Vista™, 32-Bit Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
3DMark™06 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Cakewalk Sonar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
CINEBENCH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Crafty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Dr. DivX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
POV-Ray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Vegas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Windows® XP Professional, 32-Bit Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
3DMark06 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
Cakewalk Sonar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
CINEBENCH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Crafty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Dr. DivX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
High Performance Gaming and Multimedia Experience
(City of Villains and Windows Media Encoder 9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
POV-Ray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Vegas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Benchmarking Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Overall Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Windows Vista, 64-Bit Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41
Windows Vista, 32-Bit Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
Windows XP Professional, 32-Bit Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

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6List of Figures
List of Figures
Figure 1. Dual-Core Processor Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Figure 2. HyperTransport™ Technology Block Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Figure 3. AMD Quad FX Platform with
Dual Socket Direct Connect Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Figure 4. Overall Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Figure 5. Overall Performance, Windows Vista™, 64-Bit Applications . . . . . .41
Figure 6. CINEBENCH Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Figure 7. Crafty Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Figure 8. Panorama Factory Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Figure 9. POV-Ray Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Figure 10. Overall Performance, Windows Vista, 32-Bit Applications. . . . . . . .44
Figure 11. 3DMark™06 Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
Figure 12. Cakewalk Sonar Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
Figure 13. CINEBENCH Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
Figure 14. Crafty Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
Figure 15. Dr. DivX Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47
Figure 16. POV-Ray Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47
Figure 17. Vegas Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
Figure 18. Overall Performance, Windows® XP Professional,
32-Bit Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
Figure 19. 3DMark06 Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
Figure 20. Cakewalk Sonar Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
Figure 21. CINEBENCH Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
Figure 22. Crafty Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
Figure 23. Dr. DivX Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52
Figure 24. High Performance Gaming and Multimedia Performance . . . . . . . .52
Figure 25. Panorama Factory Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Figure 26. POV-Ray Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Figure 27. Vegas Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

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List of Tables 7
List of Tables
Table 1. Memory Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Table 2. Effect of Memory Bandwidth on Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Table 3. Effect of Memory Latency on Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Table 4. Benchmark Application Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Table 5. AMD Athlon™ 64 Single Socket Dual-Core Processor System . . . . .21
Table 6. AMD Quad FX Platform with
Dual Socket Direct Connect Architecture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Table 7. Performance Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

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8Revision History
Revision History
Date Revision Description
March 2007 3.74 Incorporated legal and grammatic edits.
February 2007 3.73 Updated for the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-62, AMD Athlon 64 FX-70,
AMD Athlon 64 FX-72, and AMD Athlon 64 FX-74 dual-core processors.
Replaced Office Productivity, Digital Media, and Gaming categories with
categories for Windows Vista™ with 64-bit applications, Windows Vista
with 32-bit applications, and Windows® XP Professional with 32-bit
applications.
Removed the following benchmarks:
• BAPCO® SYSmark® 2004 SE Office Productivity
• Business Winstone® 2004, Version 1.01*
• Business Winstone 2004 Multitasking, Version 1.01
• Worldbench
• Remote Collaboration Scenario
• Travel-Ready Scenario
• BAPCO SYSmark 2004 SE Internet Content Creation
• Content Creation Winstone® 2004, Version 1.01*
• iTunes, Version 6.0.4
• Protected High Definition Viewing Scenario
•3DMark
™05, Build 1.2.0 (Hardware and Software)
• City of Villains, Version 10.2
•SeriousSamII
• Half-Life 2, Version 1.0.1.0
• Quake 4, Version 1.04
• Unreal Tournament 2004, Version 3369
• Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, Version 1.2b
• Far Cry, Version 1.3.1
•Doom3,Version1.1
Updated the following benchmarks:
• Vegas, Version 6.0 (to 7.0)
• Crafty, Version 19.19 (to four-thread version)
Added the following benchmarks:
•CINEBENCH9.5
• POV-Ray, version 3.7beta-14
• High Performance Gaming and Multimedia Scenario
Updated application information in Chapter 3.
Changed the recommended system configurations in Chapter 4.
Updated Chapter 5 to reflect changes in system configuration and tests.
Updated performance graphics in Chapter 6.
Made minor grammatic changes to improve readability.
*Business Winstone, Content Creation Winstone, and Winstone are
registered trademarks of Ziff Davis Publishing Holdings Inc. in the U.S.
and other countries.

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Revision History 9
June 2006 3.72 Updated document format to comply with latest AMD standards.
Updated for the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-62 processor, the AMD Athlon 64
processor 5000+, and the AMD Athlon 64 processor X2 3800+, relative
to the Intel Pentium® D 950 processor and the Intel Pentium EE 955
processor.
Added information about DDR2 memory latency to Chapter 2.
Removed the following benchmarks:
• WinRAR, version 3.42
• RazorLAME, version 1.1.5
•POV-Ray,version3.7.4
• Microsoft® Movie Maker, version 5.1
• 3DMark®03, build 3.6.0 (hardware and software)
• Pain Killer, version 1.64
• Quake III, version 1.11 (replaced by Quake 4)
• Return to Castle Wolfenstein Enemy Territory, version 2.60
• Star Wars- Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, version 1.04
Updated the following benchmarks:
• SYSMark® 2004, version 1.02, patch 2
updated to SYSMark 2004 SE
• Unreal Tournament 2004, version 3355
updated to version 3369
Added the following benchmarks:
• iTunes, version 6.0.4
• Cakewalk Sonar, version 5
• Protected High Definition Viewing Scenario
• 3DMark06, build 1.0.2 (hardware and software)
•SeriousSamII
• City of Villains, version 10.2
• Quake 4, version 1.04 (replaces Quake 3)
Updated application information in Chapter 3.
Changed the recommended system configurations in Chapter 4.
Updated procedures in Chapter 5 to reflect changes in system
configuration and addition/removal of tests.
Removed individual data tables, increased graph size, and added data
summary table to Chapter 6.
Removed Appendix A Listings because listing source files are available
directly from AMD.
June 2005 3.71 Corrected title for Travel Ready Scenario.
June 2005 3.70 Updated for the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-57 processor and the
AMD Athlon 64 processor 4800+ relative to the Intel Pentium®4 550
processor, which operates at 3.8 GHz.
Removed the Performance Analysis (64-bit) section, as these tests will
be shown in a separate document.
Removed obsolete processor information.
October 2004 3.61 Incorporated documentation edits.
Date Revision Description

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10 Revision History
October 2004 3.60 Updated for the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-55 processor and the
AMD Athlon 64 processor 4000+ relative to the Intel Pentium®4 550
processor, which operates at 3.4 GHz.
Removed obsolete processor information.
Added the following tests to the standard benchmarking suite:
• Dr. DivX, version 1.0.6 (Replaces RawAVI to MPEG2 and Xmpeg)
• Return to Castle Wolfenstein Enemy Territory, version 2.60
(Replaces Return to Castle Wolfenstein)
• FarCry, version 1.3.1
•FarCrypier
Note:The two FarCry benchmarks were combined in revision 3.70.
• Painkiller, version 1.64
Within the Performance Analysis test suite, 64-bit versus 32-bit test
results have been combined with the 32-bit and 64-bit results, where
applicable.
Note:These changes are obsolete, as the Performance Analysis test
suite has been removed from this document.
June 2004 3.50 Updated to reflect the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-53 (939) processor and the
3700+ and 3800+ processors relative to the Intel Pentium®4 Extreme
Edition 3.4 GHz and the Pentium 4 3.4 GHz processors.
Removed obsolete processor information.
Added the following tests to the Performance Analysis test suite:
• Table 64, “Panorama Factory Ver. 3.1 64-Bit Benchmark” on
page 69
• Table 65, “Crafty Ver. 19.12 64-Bit Benchmark” on page 69
• Table 64, “Panorama Factory Ver. 3.1 Benchmark Results” on
page 72
• Table 65, “Crafty Ver. 19.12 64-Bit Benchmark Results” on page 72
Note:These changes are obsolete, as the Performance Analysis test
suite has been removed from this document.
March 2004 3.43 Updated legal attribution for various benchmarks.
March 2004 3.41 As of revision 3.60, these tables are obsolete.
Updated the following tables:
• Table 35 on page 63
• Table 45 on page 66
• Table 48 on page 68
• Table 51 on page 69
• Table 77 on page 78
March 2004 3.40 Replaced the obsolete AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-51 processor information
with the AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 processor. This change affects Table 3 on
page 24 and each benchmark result.
Replaced the older Intel Pentium® 4 3.2 GHz configuration and
performance data with the Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz Extreme Edition
Processor. This change affects Table 4 on page 22 and each benchmark
result.
Replaced the benchmark result tables with graphs and corresponding
tables.
Date Revision Description

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Revision History 11
January 2004 3.32 Corrected instructions for “Ziff Davis Media Inc. Business Winstone®
2004” on page 32, “Ziff Davis Media, Inc. Business Multitasking
Winstone® 2004” on page 33 and “Ziff Davis Media Inc.’s Content
Creation Winstone® 2004” on page 39.*
Moved 64-Bit performance results from non-optimized rows to
optimized rows in Table 7 on page 49 and Table 8 on page 51.
*Business Winstone, Content Creation Winstone, and Winstone are
registered trademarks of Ziff Davis Publishing Holdings Inc. in the U.S.
and other countries.
Note:These changes are obsolete, as the Performance Analysis test
suite has been removed from this document.
January 2004 3.31 Updated performance results for Table 7 on page 49 and Table 8 on
page 51.
Corrected minor typos throughout.
December 2003 3.30 Updated to reflect 3400+ launch.
Figure 3 was removed.
Additional instructions were added for the DivX Encoder for 64-Bit
installation and run. Now refer to “Mini-GZIP” on page 61.
December 2003 3.25 Removed Revision bars.
December 2003 3.24 On Page 15, removed references to WinACE, because it is no longer
tested.
Within “Operating System Configuration” on page 27, added
instructions to skip steps 12 and 13 because they do not apply if
Microsoft® Windows® is not yet installed. Instead, skip to step 14.
On page 30 added notations that ASUS and MSI drivers are applicable
only to their respective motherboards.
December 2003 3.23 Updated benefits for 64-bit processing in “64-bit processing” on
page 16.
Note:This change is now obsolete, as the Performance Analysis test
suite has been removed from this document.
Corrected attribution in “WinZip Computing WinZip 8.1” on page 20.
November 2003 3.22 Added figure label to Figure 3 on page 46. Corrected two column format
balancing in various locations.
November 2003 3.21 Applied new document template.
October 2003 3.2 Revision to Table 3 on page 24 to correct memory manufacturer.
Revision to update configuration steps for To install the video clip to use
for DivX Encoder on page 45.
September 2003 3.1 Revision to include NVIDIA® video driver and ASUS chipset installation.
September 2003 3.0 Initial Public Release
Date Revision Description