- An increased number of processor cores per socket (four instead of two) designed to operate without an increase in power envelope
- An innovative cache structure that includes a 512 KB dedicated level 2 (L2) cache per core and a 2 MB shared L3 cache
- 128-bit Streaming SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) Extensions (SSE) execution width that allows four floating-point operations per clock cycle
- 128-bit integrated memory controller divided into two independent 64-bit channels
- Reduced power consumption through multiple-core voltage and frequency scaling
Third-generation AMD Opteron processors are designed to optimize multi-threaded application performance, and include multiple architectural enhancements over second-generation AMD Opteron processors. To help organizations understand the performance increases possible when upgrading to third-generation processors, Dell engineers performed benchmark tests against a variety of high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.
Third-generation AMD Opteron processors include key architectural enhancements designed to boost performance and energy efficiency over the second-generation processors without sacrificing memory bandwidth.