core href="http://pcquest.ciol.com/content/enterprise/2008/108110103.asp">x86 processor for the high-volume 2P and value 4P
server market. The AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform addresses the needs of server customers today - workload-specific
performance, power efficiency, and overall value - while delivering more cores and more memory for less money. As AMD
claims,
href="http://pcquest.ciol.com/content/search/showarticle.asp?artid=102192">8- and 12-core server processors performs at up to two times the level of AMDs previous generation 6-core processors, including an 88 percent increase in integer performance4and a 119 percent increase in floating point performance.
The new href="http://pcquest.ciol.com/content/software/2009/109030402.asp">AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform features include
enhanced integrated memory controller supporting four channels of DDR3 memory. 33% percent more memory channels per
processor than competitive 2P solutions, 50% higher DIMM capacity compared to previous generations, AMD 5600 Series chipset
with I/O virtualization capability,
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3.0 technology and PCI Express 2.0. Also, the new AMD Opteron platform is chipset- and socket- compatible between 2P and
4P and will be compatible with the planned processors based on the next-generation AMD server processor core,code-named “Bulldozer”.
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