Transistor count

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Plot of transistor counts against dates of introduction. The curve shows counts doubling every two years.

Transistor count is the most common measure of integrated circuit complexity. According to Moore's Law, the transistor count of the integrated circuits grow exponentially. On most modern microprocessors, the majority of transistors are contained in caches.


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[edit] Transistor count

[edit] Microprocessors

Processor Transistor count Date of introduction Manufacturer
Intel 4004 2,300 1971 Intel
Intel 8008 2,500 1972 Intel
Intel 8080 4,500 1974 Intel
Intel 8088 29,000 1979 Intel
Intel 80286 134,000 1982 Intel
Intel 80386 275,000 1985 Intel
Intel 80486 1,200,000 1989 Intel
Pentium 3,100,000 1993 Intel
AMD K5 4,300,000 1996 AMD
Pentium II 7,500,000 1997 Intel
AMD K6 8,800,000 1997 AMD
Pentium III 9,500,000 1999 Intel
AMD K6-III 21,300,000 1999 AMD
AMD K7 22,000,000 1999 AMD
Pentium 4 42,000,000 2000 Intel
Atom 47,000,000 2008 Intel
Barton 54,300,000 2003 AMD
AMD K8 105,900,000 2003 AMD
Itanium 2 220,000,000 2003 Intel
Cell 250,000,000 2006 Sony/IBM/Toshiba
Core 2 Duo 291,000,000 2006 Intel
AMD K10 463,000,000[1] 2007 AMD
Core 2 Quad 582,000,000 2006 Intel
Itanium 2 with 9MB cache 592,000,000 2004 Intel
Core i7 (Quad) 731,000,000 2008 Intel
POWER6 789,000,000 2007 IBM
Dual-Core Itanium 2 1,700,000,000[2] 2006 Intel
Quad-Core Itanium Tukwila 2,000,000,000[3] 2008 Intel
8-Core Xeon Nehalem-EX 2,300,000,000[4] 2009 Intel

[edit] GPUs

Processor Transistor count Date of introduction Manufacturer
G80 681,000,000 2006 NVIDIA
RV770 956,000,000[5] 2008 AMD
GT200 1,400,000,000[6] 2008 NVIDIA

[edit] FPGA

FPGA Transistor count Date of introduction Manufacturer
Virtex ~70,000,000 1997 Xilinx
Virtex-E ~200,000,000 1998 Xilinx
Virtex-II ~350,000,000 2000 Xilinx
Virtex-II PRO ~430,000,000 2002 Xilinx
Virtex-4 1,000,000,000 2004 Xilinx
Virtex-5 1,100,000,000[7] 2006 Xilinx
Stratix IV 2,500,000,000[8] 2008 Altera


[edit] References

  1. ^ Barcelona Architecture: AMD on the Counterattack
  2. ^ PRESS KIT - Dual-Core Intel Itanium Processor
  3. ^ "Itanium Tukwila." AFP. Feb 5, 2008. Retrieved on Feb 5, 2008.
  4. ^ "Intel Previews Intel Xeon® 'Nehalem-EX' Processor." May 26, 2009. Retrieved on May 28, 2009.
  5. ^ The Radeon HD 4850 & 4870: AMD Wins at $199 and $299
  6. ^ NVIDIA's 1.4 Billion Transistor GPU: GT200 Arrives as the GeForce GTX 280 & 260
  7. ^ "Taiwan Company UMC Delivers 65nm FPGAs to Xilinx." SDA-ASIA Thursday, 9 November 2006.
  8. ^ "Altera's new 40nm FPGAs - 2.5 billion transistors!"

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