Intel Celeron 3865U CPU detected as amd64?

[silicon_matters]

Hi guys. I am new here, this is my first post, please suggest if there's a better place to post this question.

I have a mini PC running PfSense used as my home router. I have an Intel Celeron 3865U CPU on it and 8GB RAM.

But sysctl shows me the architecture as amd64. Is this normal?

[2.4.5-RELEASE]admin@pfsense/root: sysctl hw
hw.machine: amd64
hw.model: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 3865U @ 1.80GHz
hw.ncpu: 2
hw.byteorder: 1234
hw.physmem: 8445272064
hw.usermem: 8189628416
hw.pagesize: 4096
hw.floatingpoint: 1
hw.machine_arch: amd64
hw.realmem: 8589934592

I ran into a problem trying to install a package through a URL. It said the expected architecture was amd64 thats when I went looking.

Could it be that FreeBSD identified the CPU wrong? What are the issues I should look for? So far, the AES-NI encryption in this CPU looks very unstable when I enable IPsec VPN service. So I have it disabled. Otherwise the box is OK.

 

[T-Daemon]

Hi guys. I am new here, this is my first post, please suggest if there's a better place to post this question.

Welcome. "System Hardware" is the right forum.

I have a mini PC running PfSense used as my home router. I have an Intel Celeron 3865U CPU on it and 8GB RAM.

But sysctl shows me the architecture as amd64. Is this normal?

Yes it is normal. amd64 refers to the 64-bit version of the x86 instruction set of the CPU:

x86-64 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Intel product specifications

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ark.intel.com

 

[SirDice]

I have a mini PC running PfSense used as my home router.

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