Possible values of %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384274.aspx
- AMD64
- IA64
- x86
Note that this doesn't tell you the architecture of the processor but only of the process with the environment variable. It returns "x86" for a 32 bit process running on 64 bit Windows.
The top answer is currently outdated. As of May 2019, here are all the valid values of %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%
:
64-bit:
AMD64
IA64
ARM64
EM64T
(EM64T
is very rarely seen, almost always on Windows XP-64. You can safely ignore this in your scripts in most cases unless your code needs to be super backwards-compatible.)
32-bit:
X86
(source)
"EM64T" is also a possible value, however unlikely. My understanding is that you will only see this with XP-64.