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user813853
user813853

Reputation:

What is the meaning of the terms 'amd64' 'x64' and 'x86'?

I have this :

Depending on your processor, the downloaded file has one of the following names:

  • xxx-macosx-amd64.dmg
  • xxx-macosx-x64.dmg
  • xxx-macosc-x86.dmg

I need to understand those terms once for all please.

Thank you

Upvotes: 7

Views: 22538

Answers (2)

werdl
werdl

Reputation: 21

AMD64 is used mostly by BSD, Linux and Windows internally, whereas x64 is from Microsoft and Oracle. x86_64 is primarily used by Apple, but they are all different name for a 64-bit OS.

So effectively they are one of the main 64-bit instruction set of x86.

They are different from ARM!

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64

Upvotes: 2

Oded
Oded

Reputation: 498952

These are different processor architectures.

  • amd64 are AMD 64bit processors.
  • x64 are Intel 64bit processors.
  • x86 is 32bit Intel processors.

Upvotes: 6

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