AMD Launches 8 and 12-Core Opteron CPUs
AMD is beefing up its server CPUs with new 8- and 12-core offerings.
AMD announced Monday that its 8 and 12 core x86 Opteron 6000 Series "Magny-Cours" CPUs have been deployed to take over the 2P and value 4P server market. The latter processor doubles the number of cores in the previous-generation 6-core Opteron server chip, coughing up twice the processing level while providing an 88-percent increase in integer performance and a 119-percent increase in floating point performance.
"As AMD has done before, we are again redefining the server market based on current customer requirements," said Patrick Patla, vice president and general manager, Server and Embedded Divisions, AMD. "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 center workloads."
On an individual basis, the per-chip pricing will range from $455 to $1,386--the latter pricetag will be affixed to the 2.3 GHz 12-core Opteron 6176 LE. The only other processor in the 4-digit range will be the 12-core 2.2 GHz Opteron 6174, costing $1,165. For admins who want to stick with 8 cores, the 2.4 GHz Opteron 6136 will be the most expensive, costing $744.
The company said that vendors such as HP, Dell, Acer, Cray, and SGI will soon offer servers based on the two new Opteron 6000's.
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Hmm could do with one of them, or 4.
12 cores, imagine if a mobo manufacturer made a enthusiast gaming platform capable of taking one of these chips, with 3-way crossfire.
I had my list ready for my next workstation build, Dual socket xeon 5600 MoBo, CPU’s, graphics, memory etc, and then AMD come along and stir the market up. Don’t get me wrong; I love AMD for doing this. Finally some competition for Intel will mean lower prices in the server/workstation CPU market again, but now what I need to know is what will be the fastest CPU for rendering? I have read a few press releases so far about the 6100 line up, but all of them seem to be AMD biased, stating that AMD are wearing the new performance crown because Intel’s flagship 5600 only has 6 cores, forgetting to mention hyper threading and not showing any benchmarks to back up the claims. Whatever CPU wins the fastest render time test will be in my next build, and if it’s about equal, then it will come down to price. Come on TomsHardware, some 5600 vs. 6100 benchmarks please?
Agreed, xeon 5600 vs Opteron 6100 benchmarks pls TH
I found the answers I was looking for at Anandtech. Looks like Xeon’s will still be in my next workstation build. The new Opteron’s are still damn good, and 20% cheaper than the new Intel 5600 line up. I wont be building my new workstation for a few more months, so hopefully the new competition will have forced Intel to drop their prices by then.