Advanced Micro Devices has released a version of the 6-Core low-power Opteron processor in time for VMworld virtualization key that opens Monday.
The 6-Core AMD Opteron EE consume 40 watts and is designed for 2P servers, one of the most popular in the area of virtualized servers. The chip costs $ 989 and will begin shipping on Monday.
Maintaining the thermal envelope identical to the previous generation of chips, the Opteron 2419 EE 1.8GHz, compared to 2.0 GHz clock speed of the "Generation Opteron Shanghai. AMD claims that the third EA 2419 provides better performance than the EA 2377, four core chip whose nuclei have been clocked at 2.3GHz, who also ran against a 40-watt thermal envelope.
The new 6-core chip also contains the AMD-V virtualization technology, including AMD mechanisms power management P. VMworld, the show managed by the virtualization company VMware.
AMD also said that energy for a fully populated 42U rack would be 9.2 kilowatts using 6-core Opteron 2425 SE, item 55-W. The replacement of these chips with EE 2419, would require 7.5 kilowatts, or about 18 percent energy savings.
According to IDC data cited by Brent Kerby, a product manager for the chip, about 82 percent of the cloud and Web servers use only about half the processing power available at a given moment. "With more cores, you have more space for moments ... Web pips strikes a fair amount of support, if you want, "said Kerby. "The region most affected, energy consumption, set in the power range of 40 watts, and even above the threshold of power."
The bottom line? More power in a rack (or compute density) while maintaining low power range of 40 watts, Kerby said.
The new Opteron chip also uses DDR-2 memory, which AMD claims will save approximately $ 1,000 per server, as opposed to DDR-3 more expensive memory.
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