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Get detailed technical specifications and guides that outline AMD64 architecture functions, define system instructions, describe optimization recommendations, and other useful information to help you create fast performing software code.

• Articles & Whitepapers
• Developer Guides & Manuals
• Conference Presentations
• Videos
• Specifications & Technical Bulletins
• Benchmarks
• Recommended Reading
• Case Studies
• Code Samples & Sample Apps

Articles & Whitepapers

• OpenCL™ and the AMD APP SDK v2.4 (AMD Staff Engineer)
• Optimizing x86 Applications with Open64: Using the Open64 Compiler Suite 4.2.2 (AMD Staff Engineer)
• Java Performance when Debugging is Enabled (Tom Deneau)
• New Optimizations in Version 4.2.3 of the x86 Open64 Compiler Suite (Michael Lai)
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Developer Guides & Manuals

• BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guide for AMD NPT Family 0Fh Processors
• AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 5: 64-Bit Media and x87 Floating-Point Instructions
• Revision Guide for AMD Family 10h Processors
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Conference Presentations

• GDC 2010: DirectCompute Performance on DX11 Hardware (Nick Thibieroz)
• ACM SIGGRAPH 2009: Shiny, Blurry Things (Justin Hensley)
• GDC 2010: Optimizing and Debugging Graphics Applications with AMD's GPU PerfStudio 2.2 (Raul Aguaviva, Gordon Selley, Seth Sowerby)
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Videos

• Inside Track Video Series
• ATI Stream OpenCL™ Technical Overview Video Series
• ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series Graphics Real-Time Demos – Mecha
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Specifications & Technical Bulletins

• APML (Advanced Platform Management Link) Specification
• AMD Lightweight Profiling Specification
• CPUID Specification
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Case Studies

• AMD Gives Big Quad to Big Animation’s Creative Core
• HP Workstation Podcast: HP and AMD for Adobe Creative Suite 4
• SolidWorks: 64-Bit Capacity Really Makes a Difference in 3D Design
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AMD Benchmarks

Information about AMD benchmarks can be found in the following areas of AMD.com:

• AMD Opteron™ Processor-based Server Benchmarks
• AMD Phenom™ II Benchmarks
• AMD Phenom™ Benchmarks
• AMD Athlon™ II Benchmarks
• Overall performance for AMD Athlon™ X2 Dual Core Processors
• AMD Athlon™ Performance Benchmark
• AMD Sempron™ Processor Performance Benchmark