AMD Opteron 6300 series released; 4300 and 3300 series to come in December
AMD today unveiled its new AMD Opteron™ 6300 Series server processors based on its next-generation "Piledriver" core architecture. The new AMD Opteron processors deliver superior performance and scalability for virtualized server platforms that are central to private and public cloud deployments, big data systems and high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. The AMD Opteron 6300 Series processors strike the ultimate balance between performance, scalability and cost effectiveness to help IT organizations lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
The AMD Opteron 6300 Series processors offer industry-leading performance in SPECjbb2005, a server benchmark used to evaluate Java performance, with up to 24 percent higher performance versus the prior generation AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors. Java is a critical element of the software ecosystem for next-generation data centers. Performance per watt is up to 40 percent higher than the prior generation solutions(2), which means businesses running robust large-scale software systems will be able to enjoy high performance as well as low TCO.
AMD continues to drive HPC performance with the AMD Opteron 6300 Series processors by leveraging optimizations in compilers and libraries, and combining it with the next-generation core architecture. AMD has delivered impressive results in key HPC applications such as the molecular dynamics workloads LAMMPs and NAMD.
Key Facts, Performance and Technical Detail
- Frequency: Up to 3.5 GHz base frequency and up to 3.8 GHz using AMD Turbo CORE technology for increased performance when applications demand it;
- Up to 16 cores per socket for scaling in thread-intensive environments;
- AMD-P power management features maximize performance-per-watt across workloads while giving IT managers more control over their data center power profiles;
- AMD Virtualization™ (AMD-V™) technology for near-native performance in virtualized environments and lowest cost per virtual machine (VM);
- Up to four memory channels with up to 1866 MHz memory;
- The only x86 processor to support ultralow voltage 1.25v memory;
- Supports up to 12 DIMMs per CPU for up to 384GB memory per processor;
- Up to four x16 HyperTransport™ technology (HT3) links at up to 6.4GT/s per link.
AMD will be formally launching its Piledriver-based AMD Opteron™ 4300 and 3300 Series processors (code-named "Seoul" and "Delhi") in December. Details on those systems will be made available at that time.
Read the full press release here