AMD Opteron 6000 12-core processors launched

Advanced Micro Devices today announced a new breakthrough product -- the Opteron 6000 series of processors. Coming in 8-core and 12-core variants, the new processor family is targeted towards servers. According to AMD, its new server processor series provides workload-specific performance, power efficiency, and overall value - while delivering more cores and more memory for less money.


Features:

* 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 performance and a 119 percent increase in floating point performance.
* Enhanced integrated memory controller supporting four channels of DDR3 memory for up to a 2.5x improvement in overall memory bandwidth.
* Thirty-three percent more memory channels per processor than competitive 2P solutions.
* 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.
* 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.