Sunday 17 July 2011

How many transistors are there in your processor(transistor count)?



Microprocessors

Processor
Transistor count
Date of introduction
Manufacturer
Process
Area
2,300
1971
10 µm
12 mm²
3,500
1972
Intel
10 µm
14 mm²
3,510
1975
21 mm²
4,100
1974
Motorola
16 mm²
4,500
1974
Intel
6 μm
20 mm²
5,000
1974
RCA
5 μm
27 mm²
6,500
1976
Intel
3 μm
20 mm²
8,500
1976
Zilog
4 μm
18 mm²
9,000
1978
Motorola
5 μm
21 mm²
29,000
1978
Intel
3 μm
33 mm²
29,000
1979
Intel
3 μm
33 mm²
55,000
1982
Intel
68,000
1979
Motorola
4 μm
44 mm²
134,000
1982
Intel
1.5 µm
49 mm²
275,000
1985
Intel
1.5 µm
104 mm²
1,180,000
1989
Intel
1 µm
3,100,000
1993
Intel
0.8 µm
4,300,000
1996
0.5 µm
7,500,000
1997
Intel
0.35 µm
8,800,000
1997
AMD
0.35 µm
9,500,000
1999
Intel
0.25 µm
21,300,000
1999
AMD
0.25 µm
22,000,000
1999
AMD
0.25 µm
42,000,000
2000
Intel
180 nm
47,000,000
2008
Intel
45 nm
54,300,000
2003
AMD
130 nm
105,900,000
2003
AMD
130 nm
220,000,000
2003
Intel
130 nm
241,000,000
2006
90 nm
291,000,000
2006
Intel
65 nm
463,000,000
2007
AMD
65 nm
758,000,000
2008
AMD
45 nm
Itanium 2 with 9MB cache
592,000,000
2004
Intel
130 nm
Core i7 (Quad)
731,000,000
2008
Intel
45 nm
263 mm²
Six-Core Xeon 7400
1,900,000,000
2008
Intel
45 nm
789,000,000
2007
IBM
65 nm
341 mm²
Six-Core Opteron 2400
904,000,000
2009
AMD
45 nm
346 mm²
16-Core SPARC T3
1,000,000,000
2010
40 nm
377 mm²
Six-Core Core i7
1,170,000,000
2010
Intel
32 nm
240 mm²
8-core POWER7
1,200,000,000
2010
IBM
45 nm
567 mm²
Quad-core z196[3]
1,400,000,000
2010
IBM
45 nm
512 mm²
Dual-Core Itanium 2
1,700,000,000
2006
Intel
90 nm
596 mm²
Quad-Core Itanium Tukwila
2,000,000,000
2010
Intel
65 nm
699 mm²
8-Core Xeon Nehalem-EX
2,300,000,000
2010
Intel
45 nm
684 mm²
10-Core Xeon Westmere-EX
2,600,000,000
2011
Intel
32 nm
512 mm²

GPUs
Processor
Transistor count
Date of introduction
Manufacturer
Process
Area
681,000,000
2006
90 nm
480 mm²
956,000,000
2008
55 nm
260 mm²
1,400,000,000
2008
NVIDIA
55 nm
576 mm²
2,154,000,000
2009
AMD
40 nm
334 mm²
2,640,000,000
2010
AMD
40 nm
389 mm²
3,000,000,000
2010
NVIDIA
40 nm
529 mm²
]FPGA
Transistor count
Date of introduction
Manufacturer
Process
Area
~70,000,000
1997
~200,000,000
1998
Xilinx
~350,000,000
2000
Xilinx
130 nm
~430,000,000
2002
Xilinx
1,000,000,000
2004
Xilinx
90 nm
1,100,000,000
2006
Xilinx
65 nm
2,500,000,000
2008
40 nm
Stratix V
3,800,000,000
2011
28 nm
n/a mm²


Logic Functions

Function
Transistor count
2
BUF
4
4
4
6
6
6
6
6
8
6
18
8
24
28
8
12

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