What is the amd athlon 3000?
The AMD Athlon XP 3000+ was one of AMD’s most prominent offerings in the early to mid-2000s. It competed with Intel desktop CPUs of the time, such as the Pentium 4. There were actually two such processors, one 32 bit and the other 64 bit.NamingThe Athlons 3000+ were named thus due to their reported clock speed of 3GHz, or 3000MHz. However, the actual speed of these processors was around 2.1-2.5GHZ. The official spelling of the name is Athlon 3000+. The 64-bit version was known as the Athlon 64 3000+, while the 32-bit iteration went by Athlon XP 3000+.ArchitectureThe Athlon XP 3000+ was part of AMD’s Barton design, which was considered a step toward full 64-bit CPUs. It was a 32-bit chip and carried on from previous 32-bit models such as the Athlon 2800. However, it featured 512KB of level 2 cache for speeded up basic operations, twice the cache of predecessors.UnveilingAMD introduced the Athlon XP 3000+ in February 2003, although it didn’t become fully available until later in the year
