AMD Opteron 856 Processor

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Opteron 856 is a server/workstation processor from AMD released on 1 April 2006, and it is in end-of-life production status now. It belongs to Opteron family and has a Athens architecture. This processor is built on AMD Socket 940, and uses Gen 2 PCI express connection. 90 nm process is used in production.

Processor has 1 cores and 1 threads, with the base frequency of 3 GHz. It has unknown Dual-channel memory support. As for the cache, it supports L1 128K and L2 1MB.

Learn more about AMD Opteron 856:

Specifications

Vertical Segment
Server/Workstation
Release date
1 April 2006
Production status
End-of-life
Generation
Opteron
Codename
Athens
Socket
AMD Socket 940
Total Cores
1
Total Threads
1
Frequency
3 GHz
Turbo clock
N/A
Cache L1
128K
Cache L2
1MB
TDP
92 W

Physical Specifications

Socket
AMD Socket 940
Process size
90 nm
Transistors
106 million
Die size
unknown
Package
µPGA

Performance

Frequency
3 GHz
Turbo clock
N/A
Base clock
200 MHz
Multiplier
15.0x
Multiplier unlocked
No
Voltage
1.4 V
TDP
92 W

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment
Server/Workstation
Production status
End-of-life
Release date
1 April 2006
Codename
Athens
Generation
Opteron
Part
OSA856FAA5BM
Memory support
unknown Dual-channel
ECC memory
No
PCI Express
Gen 2

Cores

Total Cores
1
Total Threads
1
SMP # CPUs
8
Integrated graphics
N/A

Cache

Cache L1
128K
Cache L2
1MB

Features & Technologies

  • MMX
  • SSE
  • SSE2
  • SSE3
  • AMD64
  • 3DNow!

Drivers

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