AMD unveils new server platform

AMD today announced the availability of its new series server platform Opteron 6000 with Direct Conect Architecture 2.0 for improved performance and power.

Opteron 6000 features an 8 and 12 core x86 processor for the high-volume 2P and value 4P server market, addressing workload-specific performance, power efficiency, increased cores and memory.

“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 centre workloads”, said Patrick Patla, vice president and general manager, Server and Embedded Divisions, AMD.

The new series performs at up to two times the level of AMD’s previous generation 6-core processors, including an 88% increase in integer performance and a 119% increase in floating point performance.

Opteron 6000 features an enhanced integrated memory controller supporting up to three times overall memory bandwidth, an AMD 5600 series chipset with I/O virtualization capability, HyperTransport 3.0 technology and PCI Express 2.0 and a 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.