AMD FX-6200 6-Core Processor

Features & Benefits

• Overclock for a big boost in performance and speed.
• Perform mega-tasking and get pure core performance with new CPU architecture.
• Get an extra burst of raw speed when you need it most with AMD Turbo CORE Technology.
• Push your performance with tuning controls in the easy-to-use AMD OverDrive™ software
• Enjoy stable, smooth performance with impressive energy efficiency thanks to a 32nm die.

AMD FX Processors unlock maximum, unrestrained processing performance for extreme responsiveness you can see and feel.

Maximum Performance

• Overclock with easy to use AMD Overdrive™ and AMD Catalyst Control Center™ software suites.
• Supreme power available from virtually every core configuration -
• Aggressive performance for mega-tasking and intensive applications like video editing and 3D modeling
• Innovative Architecture
• New 32 nanometer die shrink designed to reduce leakage for improved efficiency, increased clock rate headroom and better thermals
• Can deliver more cores and more performance without raising the power requirements
• Industry Leading Price Per Performance
• Unlocked processors allow the maximum tunable performance
• AMD Turbo CORE Technology dynamically adjusts performance to give you the best experience, no matter what you are doing
• Get superior performance at a competitive price with unlocked technology

AMD Turbo CORE Technology

• The AMD FX Processors come equipped with AMD Turbo CORE Technology. AMD Turbo CORE Technology is a performance boosting technology that helps increase performance on the applications that need it the most.

New Instruction Capabilities

• AVX Advanced Vector Extensions increase parallelism tailored for scientific and 3D applications that use heavy floating point calculations
• FMA4 and XOP Floating Point Vector Multiply -Accumulate improves throughput and performance on many vector functions (integer and floating point)
• AES Advanced Encryption Standard noticeably increase performance on the latest encryption applications like TrueCrypt and benchmarks like PCMark

AMD Wide Floating Point Accelerator

• Shared FP Scheduler
• Dual 128-bit Floating point engines - capable of teaming together for 256-bit AVX instructions or operating separately with each core.

HyperTransport™ Technology

• One 16-bit link at up to 5600MT/s
• Up to 8.0GB/s HyperTransport™ I/O bandwidth; Up to 16GB/s in HyperTransport Generation 3.0 mode
• Up to 37GB/s total delivered processor-to-system bandwidth (HyperTransport bus + memory bus)

Benefit: Quick access times to system I/O for better performance.

Integrated DRAM Controller with AMD Memory Optimizer Technology

• A high-bandwidth, low-latency integrated memory controller
• Supports up to DDR3-18662
• Supports new low voltage memories of 1.35V and 1.2V
• Up to 29.9GB/s memory bandwidth for DDR3
• New Pre-Fetcher improvements
• Direct communications to each core in Dual-Core module (APIC registers in each core)

Benefit: Optimized memory controller to feed more cores

AMD Virtualization™ (AMD-V™) Technology with IOMMU

• Silicon feature-set enhancements designed to improve the performance, reliability, and security of existing and future virtualization environments by allowing virtualized applications with direct and rapid access to their allocated memory.
• OMMU is an extension to AMD64 architecture to support address translation and access protection on DMA transfers Security for User Level application and Virtual Machine guest operating system -Address translation and access control
• Device isolation
• Device assignment in virtualized systems
• Security & trusted boot support
• Unified interrupt management

Benefit: Helps virtualization software to run more securely and efficiently enabling a better experience when dealing with virtual systems

AMD PowerNow!™ Technology (Cool'n'Quiet™ Technology)

• Enhanced power management features which automatically and instantaneously adjusts performance states and features based on processor performance requirements
• C6 power state for cache flush, and voltage down individual core
• CC6 power state allows all cores in C6 to power even lower ?For quieter operation and reduced power requirements
• Separate memory controller power control
• IO-based c-state interface
• Works automatically without the need for drivers or BIOS enablement.
• Power can be switched on or off within a single clock cycle, saving energy with no impact to performance.

Benefit: Helps users get more efficient performance by dynamically activating or turning off parts of the processor.