14 DAY TRIAL // Whether because it expected the FX series to hog all the attention or due to some other reason, AMD decided not to shout about the arrival of the latest Opteron CPU.
Said CPU bears the name of Opteron 3365 and is the second 8-core in its family.
It is compatible with AM3 sockets and incorporates Hyper-Transport technology (5200 MT/s transfer rate) and runs at 2.3 GHz, unless the Turbo Core technology comes into play (the clock wasn't revealed).
The chip also has 8 MB of L2 cache and 8 MB of L3 cache, leading to a total of 16 MB.
For a processor with a TDP (thermal design power) of 65W, that’s not too bad. The chip is, after all, just 300 MHz slower than the Opteron 3380, which is the only other 8-core in the series.
The price of AMD's workstation AM3+ CPU is unknown.