AMD 6 core Opteron low consumption announced

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The AMD today announced the availability of a processor AMD Opteron 6 core performance that displays up to 31% higher than an AMD Opteron quad-core standard. The ACP thermal envelope of this processor is announced at 40 Watts. It is of course with the virtualization technology firm Sunnyvale (AMD-V).

Engraved in 45 nanometers, the AMD Opteron 2419 EE is clocked at 1.8 GHz with 6MB of L3 cache and includes a memory controller to 2GHz. It turns on socket F (1207 pins). AMD sells its Opteron 2419 EE for 989 dollars apiece for orders of 1,000 units.

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Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processor-based servers deliver performance efficiency to handle real world workloads—with superior value and energy efficiency at every price point. Unlike competitive products focused on raw performance, AMD technology-based servers deliver one platform to support the top-line demands of your business with a total cost advantage you can take right to the bottom-line.

Features & Benefits

• More versatility: Six-core performance in a quad-core footprint lets you run more and scale higher, while helping you save energy.
• More cores: The Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processor has six powerful processing units on each chip, delivering improved performance for environments such as virtualization, database, and web serving
• Workload optimization: Hardware innovations such as AMD Virtualization™(AMD-V™) technology tackle demanding workloads with superior speed and efficiency.
• Virtualization: Improved AMD-V delivers hardware-assisted virtualization for consolidation, hosted client computing environments, and disaster recovery/business continuity.
• Total cost advantage: Superior value at every price point helps your business achieve more with every server computing dollar.
• Save energy: With improved performance in the same electrical and thermal envelope as the previous generation, Six-Core AMD Opteron processors deliver exceptional energy efficiency with the AMD-P suite of power management features including AMD Smart Fetch technology, AMD Power Cap technology, and AMD CoolCore™ technology.

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Feature details

HyperTransportTM technology Assist (HT Assist) reduces cache probe traffic between processors, which can result in faster queries in 4 and 8-way servers that can increase performance for cache sensitive applications such as database, virtualization, and compute intensive applications.

HyperTransport™ 3.0 technology (HT3) increases interconnect rate from 2GT/s with HT1 up to a maximum 4.8GT/s with HT3, helping improve overall system balance and scalability.

Integrated DDR2 DRAM Memory Controller: Low-Power Memory To Reduce Power Consumption

AMD's Integrated Memory Controller works exclusively with high bandwidth, energy-efficient DDR2 memory. It incorporates Memory RAS for increased fault tolerance to reduce system downtime and increase system reliability.

AMD-P power management technologies

Enhanced AMD PowerNow!™ Technology with Independent Dynamic Core Technology allows each core to vary its frequency, based on the specific needs of the application. This allows for more precise power management to reduce data center energy consumption and thereby reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).

Dual Dynamic Power Management™ allows each processor to maximize the power-saving benefits of Enhanced AMD PowerNow! technology without compromising performance. Dual Dynamic Power Management can reduce idle power consumption and allow for per-processor power management in multi-socket systems to decrease power consumption.

AMD CoolCore™ Technology evaluates which parts of the die - the cores, the memory, or both - are needed to support currently running applications. It can cut power to unused transistor areas to reduce power consumption and lower heat generation.

AMD PowerCap Manager gives an IT manager the ability to put a cap on the P-state level of the cores via the BIOS. This can help reduce processor power consumption of a system.

AMD Smart Fetch Technology enables inactive cores to write contents of their L1 and L2 caches to the shared L3 cache. This can allow the inactive cores to enter a "halt" state and draw less power, reducing CPU power consumption.

AMD-V technology

Rapid Virtualization Indexing and Tagged-TLB were developed to allow the translation of virtual to physical memory addresses in hardware instead of software. This helps decrease latency, improve performance, and increase the number of virtual machines running on each physical machine-allowing for a higher performing, more flexible IT environment.

Extended Migration allows movement of a virtual machine between two physical machines running AMD Opteron™ processors on many virtualization software solutions. AMD Extended Migration is backward compatible with Single-, Dual-, Quad-, and Six-Core AMD Opteron processors.

AMD-Vi supports I/O level virtualization which provides direct control of devices by a virtual machine (requires SR5690/SR5670 chipsets). This improves performance through direct assignment of devices to a guest OS, and improves isolation and helps improves security for the VM's.