Opteron "Magny-Cours" Gets a Speedbump

jmke · 16th February 2011, 11:16

AMD has launched 5 new Opterons yesterday. The fastest "Magny-cours" is now called the Opteron 6180SE and runs now at 2.5 GHz, 200 MHz more than its older brother the 6176SE. That CPU won't be sold in large numbers however, as AMD indicated more than once that the 140W TDP SE CPUs are only a very small part of their sales.

The fastest SKU of the more popular 80W ACP (115W TDP) Magny-cours Opteron reaches 2.3 GHz (6176) instead of 2.2 GHz (6174).

Does this change the competitive landscape? In a dual CPU configuration, we found that AMD's best Opteron was slightly better in datamining and HPC, while Intel's Xeon X5670 was slightly ahead in OLTP, ERP, virtualization and rendering tasks. AMD's Opteron carried a slightly lower price tag than the Intel part, but the price advantage was more significant at the server level. These slightly faster Opterons have to face slightly faster Intel chips however

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4180/o...ts-a-speedbump

16th February 2011, 11:16	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	Opteron "Magny-Cours" Gets a Speedbump AMD has launched 5 new Opterons yesterday. The fastest "Magny-cours" is now called the Opteron 6180SE and runs now at 2.5 GHz, 200 MHz more than its older brother the 6176SE. That CPU won't be sold in large numbers however, as AMD indicated more than once that the 140W TDP SE CPUs are only a very small part of their sales. The fastest SKU of the more popular 80W ACP (115W TDP) Magny-cours Opteron reaches 2.3 GHz (6176) instead of 2.2 GHz (6174). Does this change the competitive landscape? In a dual CPU configuration, we found that AMD's best Opteron was slightly better in datamining and HPC, while Intel's Xeon X5670 was slightly ahead in OLTP, ERP, virtualization and rendering tasks. AMD's Opteron carried a slightly lower price tag than the Intel part, but the price advantage was more significant at the server level. These slightly faster Opterons have to face slightly faster Intel chips however http://www.anandtech.com/show/4180/o...ts-a-speedbump __________________

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