Athlon 1200: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Athlon 1200 sales on October 2000. Based on a Thunderbird C architecture, this desktop processor is primarily aimed at home systems. It has 1 core and 1 thread, and is based on 180 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 1200 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket A processor with a TDP of 66 Watt. It supports DDR1 memory.
Primary Details
Athlon 1200 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Desktop processor | |
| Architecture codename | Thunderbird C (2000−2001) | |
| Release date | October 2000 (23 years ago) | |
| Current price | $52 | of 15701 (Xeon Platinum 8276L) |
Detailed Specifications
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 1 (Single-Core) | |
| Threads | 1 | |
| Boost clock speed | 1.2 GHz | of 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 128 KB | of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core) |
| L2 cache | 256 KB | of 98304 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX) |
| L3 cache | 0 KB | of 786432 (EPYC 7773X) |
| Chip lithography | 180 nm | of 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Die size | 120 mm2 | |
| Number of transistors | 37 million | of 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX) |
| 64 bit support | - | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | |
| Unlocked multiplier | No |
Compatibility
Information on Athlon 1200 compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.
| Number of CPUs in a configuration | 1 | of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8454H) |
| Socket | A | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 66 Watt | of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282) |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Athlon 1200's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR1 |
Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Athlon 1200, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Athlon 1200 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 2 configurations based on Athlon 1200 in our database.
