The AMD OpteronTM Processor
Professionals who need cutting-edge 32- and 64-bit performance
choose workstations powered by AMD Opteron™ processors. Loaded with
advanced power management features and built on AMD's revolutionary
Direct Connect Architecture, which provides outstanding system-level
performance, platforms based on AMD Opteron™ processors provide ideal
solutions for customers running applications in fields such as engineering,
manufacturing, financial, entertainment, oil and gas, life sciences, or others
that require world-class computational performance.
Investment Protection
- Upgrading to Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors in the same power and thermal envelopes as Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors allows customers to increase capabilities without altering datacenter infrastructure.
- AMD64 technology and the common core strategy is consistent across one-, two-, four-, and eight-socket systems and is also consistent with previous AMD Opteron processorsminimizing the costs of transition and maximizing past investments in software optimization.
- AMD Opteron processors are designed to enable an easy platform transition from DDR2 compatible Dual- to Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, without sacrificing existing investments in hardware, software, and personnel.
- AMD Opteron processors simplify system deployment of hardware and software with simultaneous 32- and 64-bit computing environments and dual- to quad-core upgradeability, saving IT resources.
- AMD Opteron processors reduce development resource demands by utilizing a mainstream, industry-standard x86 instruction set.
Enhanced Power Efficiency
- Third-Generation AMD Opteron processors with Enhanced AMD PowerNow! technology allow processors and cores to operate at various voltages and frequencies, depending on usage and workload for better power management in the datacenter.
- Enhanced AMD PowerNow! technology in Third-Generation AMD Opteron processors works with the operating system to deliver performance-on-demand capabilities for optimum performance-per-watt and power savings.
- Enhanced AMD PowerNow! technology delivers optimum power and performance for each core depending on core workloads, without compromising performance.
- Enhanced AMD PowerNow! technology in Third-Generation AMD Opteron processors reduces power consumption when full CPU performance is not required, while still delivering performance when needed.
- Enhanced AMD PowerNow! technology reduces processor energy consumption by adjusting power usage to core utilization.
Optimal Virtualization
- Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors include AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) technology with Rapid Virtualization Indexing to help reduce the complexity and increase performance of existing x86/64 virtualization solutions.
- Rapid Virtualization Indexing, an enhancement to AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) technology, enables the translation of virtual to physical addresses in hardware for improved virtualization application performance.
- Rapid Virtualization Indexing, available with Third-Generation AMD Opteron processors, moves the process of address translation from software to hardware, for better performance of virtualized applications.
- AMD Virtualization with Rapid Virtualization Indexing can greatly improve virtualized application performance by allowing virtual machines to manage memory more efficiently.
Outstanding Performance
- Third-Generation AMD Opteron processors offer significant core and cache enhancements for greater performance.
- Third-Generation AMD Opteron processors with native multi-core technology offer AMD Wide Floating Point Accelerator, 1GB paging, and out-of-order execution for superior performance.
- Third-Generation AMD Opteron processors are designed for more processing throughput in the same power and thermal envelopes as Second-Generation AMD Opteron processors.
- Third-Generation AMD Opteron processors with AMD Balanced Smart Cache include dedicated L2 cache per core and a new shared L3 cache to help improve multi-threaded application performance and avoid thrashing.
With Third-Generation AMD Opteron processors, AMD continues its
tradition of providing best-in-class performance, advanced leadership in
x86 computing, and non-disruptive technology enhancements. Third-
Generation AMD Opteron processors introduce new and innovative
features that deliver outstanding performance and performance-per-watt
efficiencies. More than just four cores, AMD's Direct Connect Architecture
features multi-core technology on a single piece of silicon with directly
connected cores, directly connected I/O, and a directly connected
memory controller. And Third-Generation AMD Opteron processors
are designed to do it all in the same thermal envelopes as previous
AMD Opteron processors.
