Athlon II

AMD Athlon II
General information
Launched	2009
Discontinued	Present
Marketed by	AMD
Designed by	AMD
Common manufacturer	GlobalFoundries;
Performance
Max. CPU clock rate	1.6 GHz to 3.5 GHz
HyperTransport speeds	1.8 GHz to 2 GHz
Architecture and classification
Technology node	45 nm to 32 nm
Microarchitecture	AMD K10
Instruction set	x86-64
Physical specifications
Cores	2 - 4;
Sockets	Socket AM3; Socket AM2+; Socket FM1; Socket FM2;
Products, models, variants
Core names	Sargas ; Regor; Propus; Rana; Llano;

Athlon II is a family of AMD multi-core 45 nm central processing units, which is aimed at the budget to mid-range market and is a complementary product lineup to the Phenom II.

Features

The Athlon II series is based on the AMD K10 architecture and derived from the Phenom II series. However, unlike its Phenom siblings, it does not contain any L3 Cache. There are two principal Athlon II dies: the dual-core Regor die with 1 MB L2 Cache per core and the four-core Propus with 512 KB per core. Regor is a native dual-core design with lower TDP and additional L2 to offset the removal of L3 cache.^[2] The Athlon II x2 200e-220 chips have less L2 cache than the rest of the Regor line. The triple-core Rana is derived from the Propus quad-core design, with one core disabled. In some cases, the Phenom II Deneb die is used with disabled L3 cache and cores in the case.^[3]^[4] Includes: AMD Direct Connect Architecture AMD Wide Floating Point Accelerator AMD Digital Media XPress 2.0 Technology AMD PowerNow! Technology (Cool’n’Quiet Technology) HyperTransport Technology (not the same as Intel Hyper-Threading Technology)

Processors with an "e" following the model number (e.g., 245e) are low-power models, typically 45W for Athlons, 65W for Phenoms.

AMD Athlon II-based processor family
AMD K10	Desktop				Sempron
AMD K10	Quad-core	Quad-core	Triple-core	Dual-core	Single-core
Code-named	Llano	Propus	Rana	Regor	Sargas
Core	32 nm	45 nm	45 nm	45 nm	45 nm
Date released	Aug 2011	Sep 2009	Nov 2009	Jun 2009	Aug 2009
List of AMD Athlon X2 microprocessors

Cores

Regor (45 nm SOI with immersion lithography)

Two AMD K10 cores
L1 cache: 64 kB + 64 kB (data + instructions) per core
L2 cache: 1024 kB per core, full-speed (512 kB per core in Athlon II X2 200e-220)
Memory controller: dual channel DDR2-1066 MHz (AM2+), dual channel DDR3-1333 (AM3) with unganging option
MMX, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4a, AMD64, Cool'n'Quiet, NX bit, AMD-V
Socket AM3, HyperTransport with 2 GHz
Die Size: 117 mm² ^[5]
Power consumption (TDP): 25-65 Watts
First release
- June 2009 (Stepping C2)
Clock rate: 1.6 - 3.5 GHz
Models: Athlon II X2 210e - 270

Rana (45 nm SOI with immersion lithography)

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Three AMD K10 cores using chip harvesting technique from 4 core Propus die, with one core disabled
L1 cache: 64 kB + 64 kB (data + instructions) per core
L2 cache: 512 kB per core, full-speed
Memory controller: dual channel DDR2-1066 MHz (AM2+), dual channel DDR3-1333 (AM3) with unganging option
MMX, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4a, AMD64, Cool'n'Quiet, NX bit, AMD-V
Socket AM3, HyperTransport with 2 GHz
Die Size: 169 mm² ^[5]
Power consumption (TDP): 45 Watts or 95 Watts
First release
- October 2009 (Stepping C2)
Clock rate: 2.2–3.4 GHz
Models: Athlon II X3 400e - 460

Propus (45 nm SOI with immersion lithography)