AMD rolls out 6300 server chips for higher performance / watt
Monday, November 5, 2012 - 17:31
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org)—Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) on Monday announced its launch of 16-core Opteron 6300 server chips. This is its newest series in server processors based on the chip designer's Piledriver core architecture. The Opteron 6300 family has models with four, eight, 12 or 16 processor cores (up to 16 cores per socket for scaling in "thread-intensive" environments). AMD says the processors are designed for "virtualized server platforms that are central to private and public cloud deployments, big data systems and high-performance computing (HPC) clusters." This is a sequel to its 6200 series; the 6300 series "Piledriver" chips show better speed than the 6200 series.