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AMD launches 12 core Opteron 6100 series
CHIP DESIGN HOUSE AMD is aiming for Intel's server market with its launch of Magny-Cours chips.
The company said Magny-Cours is its biggest achievement since it launched the original Opteron line of processors. It aims to take the fight to Intel on price, performance and power use.
The Magny-Cours family of x86 CPUs, also charismatically called the 6100 series, has eight to 12 cores and is designed for two- or four-socket systems running demanding applications such as databases and virtualisation. The chips also offer higher memory capacity and I/O bandwidth over AMD's existing Opteron chips with four DDR3 memory channels and another HyperTransport 3.0 interconnect channel, bringing the total to four.
"We'll beat the competition on price, performance and power," John Fruehe, director of product marketing for servers and workstations at AMD told the Inquirer.
"This is on a par with the original Opteron launch. It's going to be very interesting to see how the market reacts to this."
The 6100 series will beat Intel's Xeon on price and performance, and for many computing tasks its power management features will also beat the competition, he said.
He explained that there are three main types of servers. Systems performing day-to-day functions like email and document sharing typically run at 20 per cent average usage levels with a lot of idle time. Servers running virtual machines typically run at 40 to 60 per cent constantly and high performance computing systems run constantly at 80 to 90 per cent capacity.
Magny-Cours improved power management will slash power consumption for servers at rest, making the 6100 series ideal for running day-to-day activities.
The 6100 series processor line is also aimed at rejuvenating the four processor server market by making it easy to update a two processor system to a four processor server with no cost disadvantage. Fruehe called this getting rid of the "4P tax".
In doing so the company is looking to rejuvenate the four processor server market, which has fallen from around 10 per cent of sales down to four per cent.
AMD is also looking to reassure buyers about the upgradeability of their systems. The Magny-Cours line of processors will be upgradeable to AMD's upcoming Bulldozer chips, giving customers a clear upgrade path until at least 2013. Many system vendors are looking to build in the upgrade path with new sales.
At launch AMD's Magny-Cours line of processors has 25 models on offer and one new system vendor, Acer. µ
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The difference is in the delivery. AMD has been upfront from day one about the nature of Magny Cours, intel on the other hand tried to pass the core 2 quads off as native monolithic quad cores, when in fact they were 2x dual cores on a single die.
Its not about the game that you play, its about how you play that game.
When Intel banged 2 procs to obtain their first 'quad' I was asking why AMD didn't do the same and deliver 6-8 cores right then and wipe the floor with the blue contender for yet another years to come... Now they got their lesson good and did just that. Not to learn from your mistakes is certain death. Well, it seem AMD really wants to fight and not on their knees but on their toes. Ever watch Rocky francise ?! Well, AMD is just like that. No matter how hard the blue guy beats him, you can always bet it'll always come back and hit even harder in return. Great game this CPU sport !
When can I have the Desktop version?
Were you also one of the people making fun of Intel when they did the same trick of banging 2 dual core procs onto one die and calling it a quad core?
Pretty much what AMD is doing here - 2 "6 packs" and calling a 12 core. While a 12 core proc is certainly cool, I wouldn't necessarily call this a case of superior engineering or innovative.
Just wondering considering the fanboy post.
The real question here is how will it perform against the competition? It might do well, or it might just be enough to compete with Intel. We'll have to see.
Has Anyone Every noticed little C on Chipper, often years Back, even when first released. heres reviews from 2008:
Nehalem-EX supports four more threads than Magny-Cours, but the AMD chip has four more cores. Intel's multithreading typically delivers a performance boost of about 20-25 percent, likely less than AMD will get from having the additional cores, Brookwood said.
However, Intel's cores sport the superior design and its chip has twice the L3 cache which will deliver significant wallop on many applications
Magny is Early, about 90 days early, Giving blip on TOP of Intel, Especially in Cost. Remember From Server, as Developes, Magny haveing team of 400 Engineers, In Austin, Then flowint to Desktop & workstation, as tune to Demands of Ever Increase Windows software. Here:hulking diesel engine pulling a train down the track.
But there is a pun at work here. Magny-Cours, which is actually two chips sandwiched together in a single high-performance module, is pronounced by AMD marketing types as "many cores."
This device does indeed have many cores, or processing engines — 12 of them on a single processor. That is the most cores ever on a single Windows-compatible processor. More cores tend to give the chip more flexibility in handling lots of tasks at once
Magny cours is Race track in France & AMD/Ferrari where in Game in 2004,5,6. Racing Demands Best. Now Anyone Can Rce One. Vistories Center & True Victory Is On True Up Hill course.
STeWie.
I KNEW AMD could do it!!! AMD you know we ( your fan club members ) LOOOVE what you did when you in 1999-2002 produced the ACE of all chips. Duron 1ghz-1.2ghz cpu that could be put 2 at a time on those Tyan motherboards. Ran the PANTS off of the Intel offerings. I built and sold MANY. You may not do THAT again, but you showed 'em that you DID know a thing or two about SUPERIOR ENGINEERING. You see, you want to make those of us using YOUR products look smarter. Building more CAPABLE CPUs sure helps.
PLEASE DON'T STOP. INNOVATE. INNOVATE. INNOVATE! GIVE THE PUBLIC A REASON TO PREFER YOU!!!!!!!!! NOT on price alone!!
... but can it run Crysis?