AMD Announces Opteron Processor Claims Higher Performance Per Watt

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Six-Core AMD Opteron HE processor delivers up to 18 percent higher performance-per watt and up to 18 percent lower platform-level power consumption...

AMD announced the availability of three new members of the Six-Core AMD Opteron processor family that specifically address rising demand for balanced systems with increased performance yet greater power-efficiency for cloud computing and web serving environments.

The 55W ACP Six-Core AMD Opteron HE processors are currently shipping for 2-, 4- and 8-P systems and available today in new systems from HP, addressing the needs of dynamic, performance hungry and power constrained data centers.  Systems from additional OEMs are expected to come to market throughout Q309.

These new processors meet the market demand for highly scalable, power-efficient systems that are especially well suited for Web serving and cloud computing workloads and they are available with the same AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) technology and AMD-P technology features and advanced I/O capabilities as the standard power Six-Core AMD Opteron processors.

The new Six-Core AMD Opteron HE proces

sor offers up to 18 percent lower platform-level power consumption over the standard wattage version. (AMD Opteron processor Model 2425 .  It also delivers up to 18 percent better performance-per-watt compared to the quad-core version.   (Six-Core AMD Opteron processor Model 2425 HE.

Processors with even greater energy efficiency are planned to be available later this year for the market segment where low power is the singular priority requirement.

For customers that require the ultimate performance for mission critical workloads such as database and CRM applications, AMD is also unveiling two new, full-featured Six-Core AMD Opteron SE processors at 2.8 GHz for 2-, 4- and 8-P systems.

Since our initial introduction of multi-core processors for the server market, its been the AMD mission to help IT managers reduce datacenter energy costs without compromising performance, said Patrick Patla, vice president and general manager, Server Business, AMD. The