Doubt about denominations in AMD

[cobito]

I was looking at the processors that AMD has made in recent years and I came across something that I don't quite understand. In the Opterons we have a lot of code names, for example "Budapest" which is based on the K10 architecture. What does the name "Budapest" represent?

That is to say, in Intel the Skylakes are a microarchitecture, just like Sandy Bridge, Pentium (586) or 386. But if in AMD the microarchitecture is K10, what is "Budapest"?

Thanks.

[whoololon]

Diving a bit:

[...]The Budapest Opterons are functionally equivalent to the quad-core "Barcelona" 2300 and 8300 series of processors for two-socket and four-socket and larger servers, except they have fewer HyperTransport links and the electronics for the NUMA-style shared memory processor clustering removed. Each Budapest chip has 512 KB of L2 cache per core and 2 MB of shared L3 cache per chip, just like the Barcelonas.[...]

Source: ITJungle

[cobito]

Yes, I know that there are slight differences between one or the other, but sometimes those same differences are also seen between micros with the same denomination, and even greater ones.

If you had to put a name to things like "Budapest" or "Thorton", how would you call it? Architecture is not, model is not, nor series... Variant perhaps?

[whoololon]

Reading the topic (of which I had no idea until now) they are called "series" within the Opteron family. I think that's the big word.
It's not a variant since it implies substantial changes and doesn't use the same core.

[Fassou]

If you call it "Codename" it can serve as a wildcard to put everything from Budapest to the name a micro had in its project phase ;D

You know, I'm always helping xD

[cobito]

Thank you both for the response.

[kynes]

These are F1 circuits. During a time AMD sponsored the Ferrari team, and they used the names of circuits (or cities where said circuits are located) for the families / series of processors.

[whoololon]

@kynes I think cobito was referring to how to name the processor itself in the context of manufacturing and distribution, not regarding etymology.

But for those of us who didn't care, it's a very good point, thanks.