AMD Opteron™ 4000 Series Platform

AMD Opteron™ 4000 Series Platform
The world’s lowest power x86 cloud processor1
just got more efficient
The AMD Opteron™ 4200 Series processor — the world’s lowest power
processor1 at fewer than 5 watts per core — while designed for challenging
workloads still delivers a performance punch.
AMD Opteron™ 4000 Series Platform Product Comparison
AMD Opteron™ 4100
Series Processor
AMD Opteron™ 4200 Series Processor
Features
Features
Benefits
Processor Cores
4 and 6 core options
6 and 8 core options
33% increase in core count2 packed with plenty of processing
performance in a smaller3, more efficient 8-core design while
maintaining the same power/thermal ranges1
Processor Cache
L2: 512 K/core
L3: 6 MB
L2: 2 MB shared by 2 cores
L3: 8 MB
Twice the L2 cache per core over the previous generation
Memory
2 memory channels supporting R/U
2 memory channels supporting ULVDDR3 and LV R/U DDR3 up to 1333MHz DIMM, UDIMM, RDIMM up to 1600MHz
20% faster memory and new 1.25V ULV memory offering;
high memory bandwidth
Power
EE/Std/HE
EE/Std/HE
HE/Std/SE power options to match workload performance
and power requirements
HyperTransport™ Technology
(HT)
2X HT3 links with peak bandwidth of
6.4 GT/s per link
2X HT3 links with peak bandwidth of
6.4 GT/s per link
Helps improve overall system balance and scalability for scale-out
computing environments like HPC, database and web serving
Performance
Up to 6 cores
Up to 8 cores, new features include
AMD Turbo CORE technology, FMAC,
Flex FP and an all new architecture
Up to 20% greater throughput4, 33% more cores2; FMAC in the Flex FP
help drive more performance by executing FMA4 instructions that execute
complex calculations in half the cycles as the competition
AMD-P Technology
Features include enhanced APML
(in APML-enabled platforms), AMD
CoolSpeed technology, C1E, LV-DDR3
support, and Link Width Power Cap
New power-saving features like C6
Power State and TDP Power Cap
along with 1.25 (volt) ULV-DIMM
C6 Power State shuts down power to idle cores. TDP Power Cap enables
the flexibility to set power limits without capping power frequency.
AMD Virtualization™ (AMD-V™)
Technology Features
Mainstream availability of extended
migration and I/O virtualization
Performance enhancements to
AMD-V™ technology help drive
more efficient processing for robust
virtualization workloads
AMD-V™ advances virtualization efficiency with new enhancements to
AMD-V™ technology. The higher core counts of these products allow
customers to run 33% more VMs per server5, optimizing data center rack
space and helping minimize management tasks.
AMD Opteron™ 4000 Series platform optimized for power efficiencies or economical server solutions
Web/Cloud
>>Supporting larger use workloads
with energy efficiency
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IT Infrastructure
>> Power cost efficiency
for larger deployment
Small Business
>>Ideal for SMB customers needing
low cost, flexible and turnkey solutions
for infrastructure/collaboration
Which AMD Opteron™ processor is right for me?
AMD Opteron™ 6000 Series Platform
AMD Opteron™ 4000 Series Platform
Virtualization
Web/Cloud
IT Infrastructure
Scalability and efficiency
Large, dense deployments,
power sensitive
Power and cost efficiency
for large deployments
HPC
Database
Email/Collaboration
Memory and compute-bound
applications
Optimized for multi-user applications
Handle growing messaging needs
AMD Opteron™ 4200 Series Processor Model Numbers
Cores
8
6
Model
Core
Frequency
All Core
Boost
Frequency
AMD Turbo
CORE Max
Frequency
TDP6
North
Bridge
4284
4280
4276 HE*
4274 HE
4256 EE
4240*
4238
4234
4230 HE*
4228 HE
4226
3.0 GHz
2.8 GHz
2.6 GHz
2.5 GHz
1.6 GHz
3.4 GHz
3.3 GHz
3.1 GHz
2.9 GHz
2.8 GHz
2.7 GHz
3.3 GHz
3.1 GHz
2.9 GHz
2.8 GHz
1.9 GHz
3.6 GHz
3.5 GHz
3.3 GHz
3.2 GHz
3.1 GHz
2.9 GHz
3.7 GHz
3.5 GHz
3.6 GHz
3.5 GHz
2.8 GHz
3.8 GHz
3.7 GHz
3.5 GHz
3.7 GHz
3.6 GHz
3.1 GHz
95W
95W
65W
65W
35W
95W
95W
95W
65W
65W
95W
2.2
2.2
2.0
2.0
1.6
2.2
2.2
2.2
2.0
2.0
2.0
L2 Cache
L3 Cache
4 x 2 MB
8 MB
3 x 2 MB
8 MB
*New SKUs available with Speed Bump Launch 2012
1 A s of March 16, 2012 AMD Opteron™ processor Models 4200 EE have the lowest known power per core of any x86 server processor, at 35W TDP (35W/8 = 4.375W/core). Intel’s lowest power per core server
processor, Intel Xeon E5-2650L, is 70W TDP (70W/8 = 8.75W/core). See www.intc.com/pricelist.cfm as of 3/16/12. Previous record held by AMD Opteron processor Models 4100 EE at 35W TDP / 6 cores = 5.83
W/core. SVR-58
2 AMD Opteron™ 4200 Series has up to 8 cores per processor. AMD Opteron 2400 Series has up to 6 cores per processor. Specs according to http://www.amd.com/us/products/server/processors/Pages/
model-numbers.aspx#3 as of 4/12/12. SVR-152
3 Based on AMD Opteron 4100 Series processor at 346 mm2 vs. AMD Opteron 4200 Series processor at 316mm2. SVR-46
4 SPEC and SPECint are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. The results reflect results published onhttp://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/ as of 4/12/12. The comparison
presented above is based on the best performing two-socket servers using AMD Opteron™ processor Models 4184 and 4284. For the latest SPECint®_rate2006 results, visit http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/
results/. 285 using 2 x AMD Opteron™ processors Model 4284 in Dell PowerEdge R515 server, 32 GB (4 x 8 GB 2Rx4 PC3-12800R-11, ECC), Red Hat Enterprise Linux® Server release 6.1, Kernel 2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.
x86_64, C/C++: Version 4.2.5.2 of x86 Open64 Compiler Suite (from AMD), http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2011q4/cpu2006-20111206-19137.html; 237 using 2 x AMD Opteron™ processors Model 4184
in Dell PowerEdge R415 server, 32GB (8 x 4GB DDR3-1333) memory, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 11, x86 Open64 4.2.4 Compiler Suite, http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2010q4/cpu2006-2010092713463.html. SVR-120
5 Based on 8-core AMD Opteron 4200 Series processors at 35W, 65W and 95W TDP compared to 6-core AMD Opteron 4100 Series processors at 35W, 65W and 95W TDP when utilizing the 1 VM per core
loading rule. SVR-59
6 Learn more about average CPU power at: www.amd.com/acp.
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