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What are the specifications of the 6x86?
(back to Frequently Asked Questions) (back to Cyrix/IBM 6x86 FAQs) What are the specifications of the 6x86?
In short, the 6x86 is an advanced CISC-based x86 processor incorporating a sixth-generation integer unit and standard 80-bit, x87 compatible floating point unit.
The following are the architectural specifications of the 6x86:
- Superscalar and superpiplined sixth-generation integer unit.
- Register renaming.
- Data dependency removal.
- Multi-branch prediction.
- Speculative execution.
- Out-of-order execution.
- 80-bit x87 floating point unit.
- 16k L1 unified, write-back cache.
- Bus interface unit supporting linear burst for enhanced performance.
The following are the technical specifications of the 6x86:
- Support for 2x and 3x clock multipliers.
- 3.3V core (6x86); 2.8V (6x86L)
- 64-bit external data bus; 32-bit address bus.
- Socket 7 compatibility.
- Full x86 and x87 instruction set compatibility.
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