AMD Athlon II X4 microprocessor

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ADX620WFK42GI / ADX620WFGIBOX, or model 620, was one of the first two processors in the Athlon II X4 family. The 620 was released together with model 630 on September 16. The Athlon II X4 620 had 7% lower frequency than the 630, and it was 23% cheaper. In fact, the 620 was the cheapest quad-core CPU on market during its introduction. In a related press release, AMD announced it as the "first sub-$100 quad-core CPU". The 620 and other Athlon II X4 processors have most of the features of more expensive Phenom II X4 models, but don't have level 3 cache. For example, Phenom II X4 810 and 910 run at the same frequency and have similar features as the 620, but the Phenoms include 4 MB and 6 MB L3 cache respectively. Large shared level 3 cache provides significant boost, in some cases by 20% or more, in applications that require high memory bandwidth.