Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor
by admin on Jan.07, 2009, under News
Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor
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Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processors: Uncompromised Design. Unprecedented Performance-per-Watt. Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors with Direct Connect Architecture deliver outstanding performance within a consistent footprint and thermal envelope.
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Investment Protection
By leveraging AMD’s Common Core Strategy and Same Socket Technology, Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors are designed to minimize changes to your software and data center infrastructure to protect your IT investment and simplify IT management.
AMD plans include a stable consistent roadmap and well-timed transitions to help decrease your IT TCO.
Outstanding Performance
Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors are designed for optimum multi-threaded application performance. We start with a native quad-core design – featuring four cores on a single die for more efficient data sharing – and add an enhanced cache structure and integrated memory controller designed to sustain multi-threaded application throughput. Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors provide outstanding processing power and can increase performance-per-watt to improve IT responsiveness while maintaining costs.
AMD Opteron processors enable stable, long-term solutions with outstanding performance and industry-leading performance-per-watt to simplify your IT management – now and in the future.
| Enhanced Power Efficiency Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors are the most power efficient server CPUs we’ve ever produced, thanks to Enhanced AMD PowerNow!™ technology and the addition of innovative AMD CoolCore™ Technology. These innovations are designed to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO), data center power needs, and cooling costs by lowering the energy consumption of your IT infrastructure. Optimal Virtualization |
| Feature | Benefit |
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| Direct Connect Architecture | Helps reduce the bottlenecks inherent in traditional front-side bus architectures. High-throughput responsiveness and scalability for applications to improve overall system efficiency. |
| HyperTransport™ Technology Links (up to 3 per AMD Opteron™ processor) | A high-speed link providing up to 8.0GB/s of bandwidth per link for connecting between processors and I/O subsystems, helps improve application performance and scalability. |
| Integrated on-chip memory controller | Offers high-bandwidth, low-latency access to memory for excellent performance on memory intensive applications as well as virtualized environments. |
| Hardware-assisted AMD Virtualization™ technology | Helps maximize the benefits of virtualization by accelerating application performance and responsiveness via hardware-assisted instruction set extensions. |
| Rapid Virtualization Indexing | Can improve performance on many virtualized applications by allowing virtual machines to directly manage memory rather than relying on slower software-based methods. |
| AMD PowerNow!™ Technology | Adjusts processor voltage and frequency to match application needs, helping optimize performance-per-watt. |
| Independent Dynamic Core Technology | With quad-core AMD Opteron processors, allows frequency to be varied per core to reduce power consumed by lower utilized cores. |
| Dual Dynamic Power Management™ | Allows systems to reduce power consumed by processor cores while maintaining optimum memory performance. |
| AMD CoolCore™ Technology | Reduces power to unused sections of each processor to further reduce power consumption. |
| AMD Smart Fetch Technology | Allows core to enter “halt” state and draw less power. Reduces CPU power consumption. |
| AMD Memory Optimizer Technology | Designed for the increased demands of quad-core computing, increases memory throughput by up to 50% over Second-Generation AMD Opteron processors. |
| AMD Balanced Smart Cache | Helps increase multi-threaded application performance through three levels of dedicated and shared cache. |
| AMD Wide Floating-Point Accelerator | 128-bit floating-point pipeline enhancements to improve performance on workstation and HPC applications. |
| Same Socket Technology | Enables upgradability from dual-core to quad-core computing for significantly improved performance-per-watt and platform longevity. |
| Common Core Strategy | Allows for easy upgradability to new servers and applications by introducing new technologies throughout AMD’s product lineup. |
| Energy-efficient DDR2 memory | Memory bandwidth with improved RAS (reliability, availability, serviceability) and low-power cost savings compared to other memory architectures. |
Learn more about Third-Generation AMD Opteron processors.
Features and Benefits:
- AMD64 Technology
- Direct Connect Architecture
- Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor Upgradeability
- AMD Virtualization™
- Enhanced Performance-per-Watt
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