AMD Opteron™ 6000 Series Platform: New Model Launch

A Very Good Year

The AMD Opteron™ 6100 Series processor was recognized with InfoWorld’s 2011 Technology of the Year Award as the best CPU for parallel processing.

And the momentum continues with the release of 5 new models of the AMD Opteron™ 6100 series processor featuring 12 and 8 cores:

High performance Model 6180 SE

12 cores @ 2.5 Ghz

Mainstream Model 6176

12 cores @ 2.3 Ghz

Mainstream Model 6140

8 cores @ 2.6 Ghz

Low power Model 6166 HE

12 cores @ 1.8 Ghz

Low power Model 6132 HE

8 cores @ 2.2 Ghz

AMD Opteron™ 6100 Series Processors Product Details

Two-socket Performance¹

The following benchmarks demonstrate impressive performance with two-processor servers featuring the latest AMD Opteron™ processors outperforming the competition on nine key server benchmarks:

SPECint®_rate2006
SPECint®_rate_base2006
SPECfp®_rate2006
SPECfp®_rate_base2006
SPECjbb®2005
TPC-C Value (Price/TpmC)
TPC-H 100GB Value (Price/QphH)
STREAM Memory Bandwidth
High Performance Linpack FLOPs

Four-socket Performance¹

The AMD Opteron™ 6000 Series platform continues to transform four-socket server economics and density, while outperforming the competition on six key server benchmarks:

SPECint®_rate2006
SPECfp®_rate2006
TPC-H 300GB performance-per-watt (Watts/QphH)
VMmark: Top 48-core Result
STREAM Memory Bandwidth
High Performance Linpack FLOPs

All server benchmarks

Resources

Quick Reference Guide

Press Release

AMD Opteron platform

IT Topics

Virtualization

Cloud Computing

SPEC, SPECint, SPECfp, SPECjbb, and SPECpower are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. The results for AMD Opteron™ processor Model 6180 SE are based upon data submitted to Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation as of February 3, 2011. The other results reflect data published on www.spec.org as of February 3, 2011. The SPECint_rate2006, SPECint_rate_base2006, SPECfp_rate2006, and SPECfp_rate_base2006 comparisons are based on the best performing two-socket servers using AMD Opteron™ processors Model 6180 SE and Intel Xeon processors Model X5680, operating at each processor’s default frequency. The SPECjbb2005 comparison presented above is based on the best performing two-socket servers using AMD Opteron™ processors Model 6176 SE and Intel Xeon processors Model X5680, operating at each processor’s default frequency. For the latest SPEC results, visit www.spec.org.

TPC-C, TPC-H, tpmC and QphH are trademarks of the Transaction Performance Council. The Price/tpmC and Price/QphH result reflects data published on www.tpc.org as of February 3, 2011. The comparisons presented above are based on the best performing two-socket servers using AMD Opteron™ processors Model 6176 SE and Intel Xeon processors Model X5680. For the latest TPC results, visit www.tpc.org.