AMD Athlon 6 Specifications

Revision Guide forAMD AthlonTM 64 andAMD OpteronTM Processors25759Publication # 3.79 Revision:July 2009Issue Date:

10 Revision Determination25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors Table 3. Processor Name String TableBr

100 Documentation Support25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ ProcessorsDocumentation SupportThe following docu

Revision Determination 11Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009All of the following model codes are ex

12 Revision Determination25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors4 TT = 24 + NN. Defined for NN from 000

Product Errata 13Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Product ErrataThis section documents product er

14 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors71 RSM from SMM with Paging Enabled May Deadloc

Product Errata 15Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009100 Compatibility Mode Branches Transfer to Ill

16 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors135 INVLPG Instruction With Address Prefix Does

Product Errata 17Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Table 6 cross-references the errata to each pro

18 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors92 X N/A N/A N/A N/A93 X N/A N/A N/A X N/A X X

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20 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors1 Inconsistent Global Page Mappings Can Lead to

Product Errata 21Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 200951 Arbitrated Interrupt With Illegal Vector Set

22 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors52 Short LDTSTOP_L Deassertion Can Result in El

Product Errata 23Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 200957 Some Data Cache Tag Eviction Errors Are Repo

24 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors58 Memory Latency with Processor Power StatesDe

Product Errata 25Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 200960 Single Machine Check Error May Report Overfl

26 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors61 Real Mode RDPMC with Illegal ECX May Cause U

Product Errata 27Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 200962 Task Gates With Breakpoints Enabled May Caus

28 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors63 TLB Flush Filter Causes Coherency Problem in

Product Errata 29Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 200964 Single Step Across I/O SMI Skips One Debug T

Revision History 3Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision HistoryDate Revision DescriptionJuly

30 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors65 Uncorrectable NB Machine Check Error May Dis

Product Errata 31Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 200966 Upstream Read Response Delayed by Downstream

32 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors68 Disable DQS Hysteresis Bit Not ReadableDescr

Product Errata 33Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 200969 Multiprocessor Coherency Problem with Hardwa

34 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors70 Microcode Patch Loading in 64-bit Mode Fails

Product Errata 35Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 200971 RSM from SMM with Paging Enabled May Deadloc

36 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors74 Registered DIMM Exit-Self-Refresh Requiremen

Product Errata 37Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 200975 APIC Timer Accuracy Across Power Management

38 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors76 APIC Timer Undercounts In Divide-by-8 Low Po

Product Errata 39Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 200977 Long Mode CALLF or JMPF May Fail To Signal G

4 Revision History 25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ ProcessorsAugust 2003 3.07 Added erratum #95, #97, and

40 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors78 APIC Interrupt Latency With C2 EnabledDescri

Product Errata 41Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 200979 Power Management Limitations Above 1.50VDesc

42 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors80 Registered DIMM Initialization Requirements

Product Errata 43Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 200981 Cache Coherency Problem with Hardware Prefet

44 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors82 Certain Faults On Far Transfer Instructions

Product Errata 45Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 200983 DC Machine Check Extended Error Code Bit Not

46 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors85 Insufficient Delay Between MEMCLK Startup an

Product Errata 47Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 200986 DRAM Data Masking Feature Can Cause ECC Fail

48 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors88 SWAPGS May Fail To Read Correct GS BaseDescr

Product Errata 49Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 200989 Potential Deadlock With Locked TransactionsD

5Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide forAMD AthlonTM 64 andAMD OpteronTM ProcessorsTh

50 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors90 False IC Machine Check Overflow Error Logged

Product Errata 51Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 200991 Software Prefetches May Report A Page FaultD

52 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ ProcessorsIf the page-fault handler for a kernel can be p

Product Errata 53Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 200992 Deadlock In Multi-Processor Systems May Occu

54 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors93 RSM Auto-Halt Restart Returns To Incorrect R

Product Errata 55Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 200994 Sequential Prefetch Feature May Cause Incorr

56 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors95 RET Instruction May Return To Incorrect EIPD

Product Errata 57Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 200996 Increased Memory Latency During P-State Chan

58 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors97 128-Bit Streaming Stores May Cause Coherency

Product Errata 59Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 200998 LDTSTOP Assertion May Be MissedDescriptionIf

625759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ ProcessorsRevision Guide PolicyOccasionally, AMD identifies product errat

60 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors99 Background Scrubbing Must Be Disabled With N

Product Errata 61Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009100 Compatibility Mode Branches Transfer to Ill

62 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors101 DRAM Scrubber May Cause Data Corruption Whe

Product Errata 63Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009103 AAM or DIV followed by AAM May Produce Inco

64 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors104 DRAM Data Masking Feature Causes ChipKill E

Product Errata 65Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009105 Misaligned 128-bit Store May Cause Deadlock

66 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors106 Potential Deadlock with Tightly Coupled Sem

Product Errata 67Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009107 Possible Multiprocessor Coherency Problem w

68 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors108 CPUID Instruction May Return Incorrect Mode

Product Errata 69Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009109 Certain Reverse REP MOVS May Produce Unpred

Revision Determination 7Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision DeterminationFigure 1 shows the

70 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors110 SAHF/LAHF Extended Feature Flag Defaults to

Product Errata 71Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009111 Rtt Specification ViolationDescriptionThe R

72 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors112 Self-Modifying Code May Execute Stale Instr

Product Errata 73Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009113 Enhanced Write-Combining Feature Causes Sys

74 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors114 DDR Data Pin Drive Strength Also Affects Co

Product Errata 75Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009115 Data Corruption with Mismatched DIMM Suppor

76 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors116 DDR Chip Selects Tristated One Clock Early

Product Errata 77Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009117 Incorrect Value May Be Returned When Readin

78 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors118 Slew Rate Violation Causes DDR266 RDIMM Fai

Product Errata 79Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009121 Sequential Execution Across Non-Canonical B

8 Revision Determination25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ ProcessorsMixed Silicon Revision SupportAMD Optero

80 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors122 TLB Flush Filter May Cause Coherency Proble

Product Errata 81Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009123 Bypassed Reads May Cause Data Corruption or

82 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors124 STPCLK Throttling Causes Violation of VDD_a

Product Errata 83Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009131 Systems May Deadlock Waiting for a Probe Re

84 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors135 INVLPG Instruction With Address Prefix Does

Product Errata 85Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009136 INVLPG Instruction in 16-bit Mode May Not I

86 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors147 Potential Violation of Read Ordering Rules

Product Errata 87Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009153 Potential System Hang in Multiprocessor Sys

88 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ ProcessorsDev:0x90h, B0h, D0h LDT Buffer Count Register S

Product Errata 89Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Dev:0x90h, B0h, D0h LDT Buffer Count Register S

Revision Determination 9Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Programming and Displaying the Processor

90 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors154 Incorrect Diode Offset DescriptionSome dua

Product Errata 91Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009156 Read Request Incorrectly Generated for Inva

92 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors161 Performance-Monitoring Counters Do Not Coun

Product Errata 93Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009166 FXSAVE/FXRSTOR Instructions Use 64-bit Form

94 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors169 System May Hang Due to DMA or Stalled Probe

Product Errata 95Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009181 Asserting LDTSTOP_L Before DRAM is Initiali

96 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors312 CVTSD2SS and CVTPD2PS Instructions May Not

Product Errata 97Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009352 SYSCALL Instruction May Execute Incorrectly

98 Product Errata25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors353 SYSRET Instruction May Execute Incorrectly

Product Errata 99Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors25759 Rev. 3.79 July 2009393 Performance Monitor May Count Fastpath Doub