14 DAY TRIAL // It was just a couple of days ago that AMD's “Warsaw” Opteron processors surfaced on the Internet, and now the company has finally made the official introduction of the CPUs.
“Warsaw” is just the codename of this latest version of Opteron central processors, the Opteron 6300 series.
The CPUs are actually based on the “Piledriver” core architecture, making them socket-compatible with existing AMD Opteron 6300 Series chips.
There are two units in the collection, the 12-core Opteron 6338P and the 16-core Opteron 6370P. Both of them should already be up for sale.
The 6370P, as the better of the two, has a core frequency of 2.0 GHz (2.5 GHz in Turbo Core mode), quad-channel RDDR3 memory support (up to DDR3-1600), as well as ULV and LRDIMM RAM support.
Its price is of $598, which is the same as €440 according to exchange rates. This doesn't usually matter though, so the EU price will probably be closer to €590.
The other unit, the 12-core Opteron 6338P, works at 2.3 GHz / 2.8 GHz and has the same memory support as above. Its price is of $377 / €277.
The newcomers should perform specifically well under the AMD Open 3.0 Open Compute Platform used by xSQL and traditional databases.
Any computer used by data analysis will benefit too, and virtualized workloads used by enterprises are another possible outlet.
“With the continued move to virtualized environments for more efficient server utilization, more and more workloads are limited by memory capacity and I/O bandwidth,” said Suresh Gopalakrishnan, corporate vice president and general manager, Server Business Unit, AMD.
“The Opteron 6338P and 6370P processors are server CPUs optimized to deliver improved performance per-watt for virtualized private cloud deployments with less power and at lower cost points.”