AMD ships ’16-core’ Bulldozer-powered Opteron 6200

Nov 14th 2011
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AMD ships 16-core Bulldozer-powered Opteron 6200

We appear to have mislaid our definition of fashionably late — a fortnight after the promised “October” launch, systems packing AMD’s Bulldozer-powered Opteron 6200 (formerly Interlagos) will commence shipping to enterprise customers. In the event you haven’t been paying an excessive amount of attention, you may just believe the claim about it having 16 cores — Bulldozer’s architecture has eight two-core modules as opposed to 16 independent ones. Despite the quick delay and the conspicuous claims, the corporate reckons it’s 84 percent faster, 73 percent more efficient and uses half the ability of the equivalent Intel Xeon . Mutually, Sunnyvale firmed up news at the Valencia (Opteron 4200) and announced 2012′s Opteron 3000 platform with the recent Zurich chip — designed to run on low-power web hosts. Enterprise customers can read the PR we now have after the break after which begin placing orders; the remainder of us should keep waiting to peer if Andre Yang can push his FX each of the strategy to 9GHz.

[Thanks, Khan]

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New AMD Opteron™ Processors Deliver the final in Performance, Scalability and Efficiency

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -11/14/2011 AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced immediate launch and availability of its AMD Opteron™ 6200 and 4200 Series processors (formerly code-named “Interlagos” and “Valencia”). The brand new AMD Opteron processors are designed to provide enterprises:

Better performance for business with as much as 84 percent higher performancei
Increased scalability for Virtualization with as much as 73 percent more memory bandwidth, enabling servers to host more virtual machines and likewise handle increasing workloadsii
More efficient economics for the Cloud with half the facility per core , requiring 2/3 less floor spaceiv and as much as 2/3 lower platform pricev

“Our industry is at a brand new juncture; virtualization has provided a brand new level of reliable consolidation and businesses at the moment are seeking to the cloud for much more agility and efficiency. We designed the brand new AMD Opteron processor for this precise moment,” said Paul Struhsaker, corporate vice chairman and general manager, Commercial Business, AMD. “The look ahead to the foremost anticipated new product and architecture for servers is over. Leading OEMs at the moment are offering cloud, enterprise and HPC customers a whole suite of solutions in accordance with the industry’s most comprehensive server processor portfolio, the brand new AMD Opteron family of processors which deliver an inspired balance of performance, scalability and efficiency.”

AMD also announced the growth of its 2012 roadmap with the addition of the brand new AMD Opteron 3000 Series platform. The AMD Opteron 3000 Series platform is concentrated to the ultra-dense, ultra-low power 1P Internet hosting/Web Serving and Microserver markets. The primary processor would be the 4-8 core CPU code-named “Zurich”, expected to ship within the first 1/2 2012. “Zurich” relies at the “Bulldozer” architecture and leverages the brand new Socket AM3+. The AMD Opteron 3000 series offering is designed for hosting customers who require dedicated servers for his or her customers. These cloud and internet hosting customers appreciate the pricetag savings linked to a cheaper price infrastructure, yet still desire to deploy a server-class product with reliability and safety features and server OS certification.

IT customers of all sizes can today make the most of new servers in keeping with the engineering and business advantages of AMD’s new “Bulldozer” architecture, which was engineered for the leading datacenter workloads. Systems from Acer, Cray, Dell, HP, IBM and lots of additional channel and motherboard partners are expected that you can buy within the coming days and weeks.

AMD can also be introducing embedded server processors designed for top-end embedded systems along with storage, telecommunications and networking infrastructure. These models are planned to be available to compare the embedded market’s longevity need.
Key Facts, Performance and Technical Detail

89 percent greater performancevi than the preferred server processorvii from the contest on the same priceviii
A particularly comprehensive processor portfolio scaling from 4- to 16-cores
Unmatched power efficiency with power envelopes which are in keeping with previous generation platforms and as little as 4.375W per coreiii
As much as 24 percent to 84 percent better performance on key cloud, virtualization and HPC workloadsix
Highest 2P server TPCC scorex
Lower price per virtual machine (VM)xi
As much as 4 memory channels with as much as 1600 MHz memory
The simplest x86 processor to support ultra-low voltage 1.25v memory
Supports as much as 12 DIMMs per CPU for as much as 384GB memory per CPU
As much as Four x16 HyperTransport™ technology (HT3) Links at as much as 6.4GT/s per link

Together, these new features allow AMD to deliver unparalleled performance, scalability and efficiency for highly threaded workloads like HPC, database, virtualization, and particularly, the emerging web and cloud market.

Full performance details are located at www.amd.com/opteronperformance or examine the newest here.

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