AMD brings us mid-range and entry-level Opteron processors

http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/new-amd-opteron-2012dec04.aspx

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today unveiled nine new mid-range and entry-level AMD Opteron™ 4300 Series and 3300 Series server processors increasing performance per watt versus the previous generation to maximize compute capabilities in power-constrained environments¹, while delivering outstanding value to cloud providers and web hosts. The AMD Opteron 3300 Series processors provide enterprise-class features in a low power envelope at a desktop processor price, making it ideal for web hosts and small- and medium-sized businesses.

The AMD Opteron 4300 Series processors offer up to 15 percent better performance versus the prior generation, based on SPECint benchmark results². And SPECpower results show up to a 24 percent improvement in performance per watt. As with the AMD Opteron 6300™ Series processors, these are socket compatible with the previous generation processor, providing an effortless upgrade path for customers.

“The Piledriver core architecture shared by the AMD Opteron 4300 and 3300 Series processors provides optimized performance, power and price for today’s customer,” said Suresh Gopalakrishnan, general manager, Server Business Unit, AMD. “These new processors are ideal for cloud providers, web hosts and small- and medium-sized businesses who want to address their space and power constraints. With a simple upgrade, existing customers can obtain more performance and improved energy efficiency and new customers will obtain compelling value and ROI.”

Extensive Software Support

Deep and broad software ecosystem support is available for the new processors. Several of the key tools include:

• Hypervisors: Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and VMware vSphere;
• Operating systems: Microsoft Windows, SUSE Linux Enterprise and Red Hat Enterprise Linux;
• Key developer tools: AMD Open64 compilers and AMD Core Math Library, GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, and The Portland Group (PGI) compilers;
• Java virtual machine: AMD Aparapi, OpenJDK Project “Sumatra,” Oracle JVM and IBM JVM.

It’s great to see further innovation by AMD in their mid-range and entry-level platforms, anything they can do to bring new features, enhanced performance and greater energy efficiency has to be a good thing. Do check them out.

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