AMD Dragon is a platform engineered for
gamers, designed for use with the
AMD
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California and maintains significant operations in Austin, Texas. AMD is a hardware and fabless company that de ...
Phenom II
Phenom II is a family of AMD's multi-core 45 nm central processing unit, processors using the AMD K10 microarchitecture, succeeding the original AMD Phenom, Phenom. Advanced Micro Devices released the Socket AM2+ version of Phenom II in Dece ...
X4
processor family. The goal for the platform is to offer the user a powerful gaming system.
Having a level 3
cache memory
In computing, a cache ( ) is a hardware or software component that stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster; the data stored in a cache might be the result of an earlier computation or a copy of data stored elsew ...
of 6 megabytes and support for the latest DDR3 memories, AMD claims the Dragon platform will allow for up to 20 percent faster performance than previous platforms.
The first versions are available for mainboards offering an
AM2+ socket, supporting
DDR2 memories, but the
AM3 socket using
DDR3
Double Data Rate 3 Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DDR3 SDRAM) is a type of synchronous dynamic random-access memory (SDRAM) with a high Bandwidth (computing), bandwidth ("double data rate") interface, and has been in use since 2007. ...
memory will be the primary socket type for the Dragon platform.
A system conforming to the platform specification was said to be a combination of a Phenom II X4 processor and a mainboard using a chipset from the
AMD 700 chipset series, along with a graphics card of the
ATI Radeon
Radeon () is a brand of computer products, including List of AMD graphics processing units, graphics processing units, random-access memory, RAM disk software, and solid-state drives, produced by Radeon Technologies Group, a division of AMD. The ...
HD 4800 series. Pre-built systems using the platform were offered by
Dell
Dell Inc. is an American technology company that develops, sells, repairs, and supports personal computers (PCs), Server (computing), servers, data storage devices, network switches, software, computer peripherals including printers and webcam ...
,
HP and
Alienware among others.
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External links
AMD Dragon website(English)
AMD platforms
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