AMD Debuts New 12- and 16-Core Opteron 6300 Series Processors

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AMD today announced the immediate availability of its new 12- and 16-core AMD Opteron 6300 Series server processors, code named "Warsaw." Designed for enterprise workloads, the new AMD Opteron 6300 Series processors feature the "Piledriver" core and are fully socket and software compatible with the existing AMD Opteron 6300 Series. The power efficiency and cost effectiveness of the new products are ideal for the AMD Open 3.0 Open Compute Platform - the industry's most cost effective Open Compute platform. 

Driven by customers' requests, the new AMD Opteron 6338P (12 core) and 6370P (16 core) processors are optimized to handle the heavily virtualized workloads found in enterprise environments, including the more complex compute needs of data analysis, xSQL and traditional databases, at optimal performance per-watt, per-dollar.

 

"With the continued move to virtualized environments for more efficient server utilization, more and more workloads are limited by memory capacity and I/O bandwidth," said Suresh Gopalakrishnan, corporate vice president and general manager, Server Business Unit, AMD. "The Opteron 6338P and 6370P processors are server CPUs optimized to deliver improved performance per-watt for virtualized private cloud deployments with less power and at lower cost points."

The new AMD Opteron 6338P and 6370P processors are available today through Penguin and Avnet system integrators and have been qualified for servers from Sugon and Supermicro at a starting price of $377 and $598, respectively. More information can be found on AMD's website

 

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[Kevinkt]

waiting for mainstream FX 12 core cpu now.

[RazerFanBoy]

With the core power of a Sandy Bridge Celeron

[Kilerbomb]

With the core power of a Sandy Bridge Celeron

And has a 5000000W TDP.

 

Naw, just kidding. In all seriousness I'm very surprised by the measly 99w TDP.

[GPUXPert]

With the core power of a Sandy Bridge Celeron

Ahhhh... 16 cores at 99W is actually amazing....

[TechFan@ic]

How about a 99W FX 8350 AMD ? call it an FX 9350, sell it for $199 and we'll be happy.

[paulsterio]

With the core power of a Sandy Bridge Celeron

 

I wouldn't be surprised if it was even less than an SB Celeron, remember that a SB Celeron core is the same as any other SB core, just clocked lower. 

[Humbug]

How about a 99W FX 8350 AMD ? call it an FX 9350, sell it for $199 and we'll be happy.

 

Isn't that impossible?

These opteron server chips share the piledriver architecture but they are clocked well over 1Ghz lower, hence the low TDP?

[Fetzie]

With the core power of a Sandy Bridge Celeron

 

Guess what, these CPUs aren't for a gaming rig. They are for (quoting the OP)

 

"heavily virtualized workloads found in enterprise environments, including the more complex compute needs of data analysis, xSQL and traditional databases, at optimal performance per-watt, per-dollar."

 

Workloads that don't give a flying fuck about single core IPC, and absolutely LOVE parallel processing across many cores even at lower speed.

[ZetZet]

At 2Ghz TDP isn't really impressive.

[Fetzie]

At 2Ghz TDP isn't really impressive.

 

6W per core isn't impressive? It's a quarter of what my 2500K uses (at stock settings).

[TopWargamer]

http://www.maximumpc.com/amd_adds_more_12-core_and_16-core_processors_opteron_6300_series

 

 

 

According to AMD, these new parts are in response to customers' requests. The new Opteron 6370P is a 16-core part with a 2.0GHz base frequency and 2.5GHz Turbo frequency. It supports quad-channel memory up to DDR3-1866, has 16MB of L3 cache, and carries a max TDP rating of 99W.

 

The Opteron 6338P is similar except that it has 12-cores clocked at 2.3GHz base and 2.8GHz Turbo. Both it and the 6370P are optimized to handle heavily virtualized workloads, including tasks like data analysis, xSQL, and traditional databases, all without breaking the bank.

 

System integrators have already begun selling the Opteron 6338P and 6370P for $377 and $598, respectively.

 

They don't seem that bad coming in at $377 and $598, but for those prices, something tells me that their cores aren't as powerful as Intel's server cores (although this is pretty much a given). Still though, it is nice to see AMD pumping some new chips, even if they are mainly for servers.

[SAV1OUR]

NEEEEEED MORE POWA 

[Shd0w2]

much core, much doge, much wow

[flibberdipper]

Now if only that many cores came to APUs and the FX series.

[flibberdipper]

much core, much doge, much wow

* much core

such power

wow

[Shd0w2]

Now if only that many cores came to APUs and the FX series.

much yes

[Shd0w2]

much p0wer

[Shd0w2]

By the way, what does "Thread moved points: 1" mean? D:<

[7850OC]

Now if only that many cores came to APUs and the FX series.

if they start to use the G34 socket on next gen APUs that may be "really" easy to do friend 

 

[flibberdipper]

if they start to use the G34 socket on next gen APUs that may be "really" easy to do friend 

FM34, anyone?

[flibberdipper]

By the way, what does "Thread moved points: 1" mean? D:<

One of your threads got moved by an admin or mod.

 

EDIT: Don't feel bad. I have 2.

[Shd0w2]

One of your threads got moved by an admin or mod.

Mistakes were made my friend... mistakes...

 

if they start to use the G34 socket on next gen APUs that may be "really" easy to do friend 

I agree!

[MatheusSanzo]

Because f**k software optimization i want more cores.

[DarrenP]

http://www.maximumpc.com/amd_adds_more_12-core_and_16-core_processors_opteron_6300_series

 

 

 

 

They don't seem that bad coming in at $377 and $598, but for those prices, something tells me that their cores aren't as powerful as Intel's server cores (although this is pretty much a given). Still though, it is nice to see AMD pumping some new chips, even if they are mainly for servers.

They already have 12 and 16 core server processors. 

http://www.amd.com/us/products/server/processors/6000-series-platform/6200/Pages/6200-series-processors.aspx

 

6300 series is just going to be like the new series of APU's to the old. Nothing to wet your panties about. AAANNNDDD They are higher clocked too.