What are AMD's CPU architectures?

[Maximilian]

Intel has had P6 - netburst - core - nehalem

AMD has had... no idea, i remember something about athlon XP being quantispeed or whatever but that mightve been a marketing term. What are AMD's architectures?

 

[zokudu]

I believe AMD's architectures are just numbered. ie
K5, K6, K7, K8, K10 etc

 

[Rhoxed]

I believe AMD's architectures are just numbered. ie
K5, K6, K7, K8, K10 etc

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[veri745]

I believe AMD's architectures are just numbered. ie
K5, K6, K7, K8, K10 etc

Followed by Stars, Bulldozer, Bobcat, ...

 

[zokudu]

Followed by Stars, Bulldozer, Bobcat, ...

Stars is not the actual architecture name it is officially K10. However initial K10 based CPUs had codenames of stars Agena and Toliman. We don't know if the architecture name of Bulldozer is Bulldozer or it may be K11. Bobcat however I have not heard of any other name for the architecture other than Bobcat so I think that may be its name.

 

[Maximilian]

Followed by Stars, Bulldozer, Bobcat, ...

Hmm yeah this is why i asked initially, i saw someone mention "stars architecture" which i have heard maybe once before, but i thought AMD used K numbers so i was a bit confused.

 

[IntelUser2000]

They call it "Stars" for K10 Agena and Deneb based chips. Some search about the code-names do relate them to constellations and star names.

 

[veri745]

Stars is not the actual architecture name it is officially K10. However initial K10 based CPUs had codenames of stars Agena and Toliman. We don't know if the architecture name of Bulldozer is Bulldozer or it may be K11. Bobcat however I have not heard of any other name for the architecture other than Bobcat so I think that may be its name.

K10 is not the "official" name, it was coined by the tech media. The Official name is Family 10h, which was construed to be "K10".

AMD marketing slides that I have seen refer to the "Stars" core for Agena (Ph I), Deneb (Ph II), and Llano

 

[bryanW1995]

there are always variations withing families, too. like penryn for intel, athlon 2 for amd, etc etc.

netburst, core, nehalem are good for intel right now, and k5/6/7/8/10 is good enough for amd to get your point across.

 

[LoneNinja]

All data I've seen come from AMD has referred Agena, Deneb, and even Llano as being based on the "Stars" core, I've never seen K10 or K10.5 in an AMD slide.

 

[Maximilian]

there are always variations withing families, too. like penryn for intel, athlon 2 for amd, etc etc.

netburst, core, nehalem are good for intel right now, and k5/6/7/8/10 is good enough for amd to get your point across.

Intel seem to have a more clearcut naming system though:

Netburst - wilamette, northwood etc
Core - conroe etc
Nehalem - bloomfield etc
Sandy bridge - sandy bridge? i dunno

AMD now seem to have 3 names for the same thing, K10, stars and family 10h which ive never heard of until i read veris post heh. Think ill just go with the K numbers, seems like the most logical way.

On a semi related note it would be good if AMD had site like the ark.intel.com one with a database of all the processors theyve made and the specs of them. ark.intel.com dosent mention architecture names at all but its still pretty useful.