Marketing Beschreibung

The AMD Opteron processor, enabling simultaneous 32- and 64-bit computing, represents the landmark introduction of the AMD64 architecture. The AMD Opteron processor is designed to run existing 32-bit applications with outstanding performance and offers customers a simplified migration path to 64-bit computing. This evolutionary processor provides a dramatic leap forward in compatibility, performance, investment protection, and reduced total cost of ownership (TCO).
The AMD Opteron processor provides a highly scalable architecture that delivers next-generation performance as well as a flexible upgrade path from 32- to 64-bit computing. With a single architecture designed to meet current and future business needs, the AMD Opteron processor can help to minimize the integration complexities presented by business environments today and in the future.

Hauptverkaufsargumente

• Direct connect architecture - processor to processor
• Low power
• Dual core

Produktfeatures

• Direct connect architecture - processor to processor
  Coherent HyperTransport technology provides glueless multi-processing, making it possible for system designers to simply interconnect AMD Opteron processors without any glue logic in between. AMD Opteron 800 series processors support up to an 8-way system.
• Low power
  The benefit of the AMD Opteron processor is that the same pin out can satisfy all three power levels. Functionality is not reduced to achieve this low-power, core voltage is lowered, and the parts are screened to meet the power specification.
• Dual core
  Dual core processors provide the ability to significantly increase performance and throughput while maintaining the software compatibility that is expected from AMD-based processors. The benefit of dual core to the embedded market is obvious - higher performing processors in an even smaller footprint for improved density and performance. In a dual core configuration, the two AMD Opteron processor CPU cores are connected via a System Request Queue (SRQ), designed from the beginning to be dual-core capable.