AMD Setting New Archetype for Price, Performance, and Power for Datacenter

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   AMD Setting New Archetype for Price, Performance, and Power for Datacenter
AMD has officially announced the availability of their newly released, ground-breaking server platform that will include the world's first 8- and 12-core x86 processors for the value two and four processor server markets. Not only will the amount resource be abundantly improved, but combined with low costs, energy consumption, and maintenance they promise to be the only solution end-users will ever need to turn to. While the perk of more cores, memory, and over all efficiency become demanding AMD has no problem standing to the tasks
“As AMD has done before, we are again redefining the server market based on current customer requirements,” said Patrick Patla, vice president and general manager, Server and Embedded Divisions, AMD.  “The AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform signals a new era of server value, significantly disrupts today’s server economics and provides the performance-per-watt, value and consistency customers demand for their real-world data center workloads.” 

The new AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform features include: 

The industry’s only 8- and 12-core server processors performing at up to two times the level of AMD’s previous generation 6-core processors, including an 88 percent increase in integer performance⁴ and a 119 percent increase in floating point performance². 
Enhanced integrated memory controller supporting four channels of DDR3 memory for up to a 2.5x improvement in overall memory bandwidth.⁵ 
Thirty-three percent more memory channels per processor than competitive 2P solutions.⁶ 
50% higher DIMM capacity compared to previous generations, with up to 12 per processor, increasing the available memory overall and improving virtualization, database and HPC applications. 
AMD 5600 Series chipset with I/O virtualization capability, HyperTransport™ 3.0 technology and PCI Express® 2.0. 
Removal of the “4P tax”, since the same processors can be used in both 2P and 4P designs, and 4P-capable processors are now the same price as 2P-capable processors, bringing greatly improved value to the 4P space. 
Unprecedented price/performance. In a comparison between a best-performing 2P competitive platform versus a similar best-performing 4P AMD-based platform, customers can recognize up to double the performance and more than 10% lower total processor price.⁷ 
Significant new power management features including a C1E power state to conserve energy when idle, the Advanced Platform Management Link allowing APML-enabled platforms to be remotely monitored for power and cooling, and AMD CoolSpeed technology, which automatically reduces p-states if a specified temperature limit is exceeded. 
A wide range of power and performance options with no compromise on the available feature sets. 
A legacy of consistency and stability.  The new AMD Opteron platform is chipset- and socket- compatible between 2P and 4P and will be compatible with the planned processors based on the next-generation AMD server processor core, code-named “Bulldozer”. 

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Edited by Jmundy - 31 Mar 2010 at 5:58pm

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	AMD Setting New Archetype for Price, Performance, and Power for Datacenter AMD has officially announced the availability of their newly released, ground-breaking server platform that will include the world's first 8- and 12-core x86 processors for the value two and four processor server markets. Not only will the amount resource be abundantly improved, but combined with low costs, energy consumption, and maintenance they promise to be the only solution end-users will ever need to turn to. While the perk of more cores, memory, and over all efficiency become demanding AMD has no problem standing to the tasks “As AMD has done before, we are again redefining the server market based on current customer requirements,” said Patrick Patla, vice president and general manager, Server and Embedded Divisions, AMD. “The AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform signals a new era of server value, significantly disrupts today’s server economics and provides the performance-per-watt, value and consistency customers demand for their real-world data center workloads.” The new AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform features include: The industry’s only 8- and 12-core server processors performing at up to two times the level of AMD’s previous generation 6-core processors, including an 88 percent increase in integer performance⁴ and a 119 percent increase in floating point performance². Enhanced integrated memory controller supporting four channels of DDR3 memory for up to a 2.5x improvement in overall memory bandwidth.⁵ Thirty-three percent more memory channels per processor than competitive 2P solutions.⁶ 50% higher DIMM capacity compared to previous generations, with up to 12 per processor, increasing the available memory overall and improving virtualization, database and HPC applications. AMD 5600 Series chipset with I/O virtualization capability, HyperTransport™ 3.0 technology and PCI Express® 2.0. Removal of the “4P tax”, since the same processors can be used in both 2P and 4P designs, and 4P-capable processors are now the same price as 2P-capable processors, bringing greatly improved value to the 4P space. Unprecedented price/performance. In a comparison between a best-performing 2P competitive platform versus a similar best-performing 4P AMD-based platform, customers can recognize up to double the performance and more than 10% lower total processor price.⁷ Significant new power management features including a C1E power state to conserve energy when idle, the Advanced Platform Management Link allowing APML-enabled platforms to be remotely monitored for power and cooling, and AMD CoolSpeed technology, which automatically reduces p-states if a specified temperature limit is exceeded. A wide range of power and performance options with no compromise on the available feature sets. A legacy of consistency and stability. The new AMD Opteron platform is chipset- and socket- compatible between 2P and 4P and will be compatible with the planned processors based on the next-generation AMD server processor core, code-named “Bulldozer”. Click here to view the full article Edited by Jmundy - 31 Mar 2010 at 5:58pm
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