Identifying the processor architecture of your system can be useful to find the configuration and technical capabilities of the PC. This hardware which forms the core of the system can be identified from the system parameters. This article will show you how.
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 2393.974
cache size : 4096 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 apic pge cmov clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 constant_tsc up monitor
bogomips : 4825.12
clflush size : 64
dmesg | grep CPU
[ 0.000000] Initializing CPU#0
[ 7.665395] SLUB: Genslabs=22, HWalign=64, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 7.749733] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0788a3bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000008 00000000 00000000
[ 7.750108] CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
[ 7.750177] CPU: L3 cache: 4096K
[ 7.750475] CPU: After all inits, caps: 0788a3bf 00000000 00000000 00000140 00000008 00000000 00000000
[ 8.039007] CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz stepping 06
[ 8.157381] Brought up 1 CPUs
[ 8.772526] Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
-t, --type TYPE.
dmidecode -t 4
# dmidecode 2.8
SMBIOS 2.2 present.
Handle 0x0004, DMI type 4, 32 bytes
Processor Information
Socket Designation: Socket A
Type: Central Processor
Family: Athlon XP
Manufacturer: AMD
ID: 80 06 00 00 FF FB 83 03
Signature: Family 6, Model 8, Stepping 0
Flags:
FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip)
VME (Virtual mode extension)
DE (Debugging extension)
PSE (Page size extension)
TSC (Time stamp counter)
MSR (Model specific registers)
PAE (Physical address extension)
MCE (Machine check exception)
CX8 (CMPXCHG8 instruction supported)
APIC (On-chip APIC hardware supported)
SEP (Fast system call)
MTRR (Memory type range registers)
PGE (Page global enable)
MCA (Machine check architecture)
CMOV (Conditional move instruction supported)
PAT (Page attribute table)
PSE-36 (36-bit page size extension)
MMX (MMX technology supported)
FXSR (Fast floating-point save and restore)
SSE (Streaming SIMD extensions)
Version: AMD Athlon(tm) XP
Voltage: 1.6 V
External Clock: 133 MHz
Max Speed: 2000 MHz
Current Speed: 1800 MHz
Status: Populated, Enabled
Upgrade: ZIF Socket
L1 Cache Handle: 0x0008
L2 Cache Handle: 0x0009
L3 Cache Handle: No L3 Cache