- An increased number of processor cores per socket designed to operate without an increase in power envelope
- 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 processor is designed to optimize multi-threaded application performance, and includes multiple architectural enhancements over second-generation AMD Opteron processor. To help organizations understand the performance increases possible when upgrading to third-generation processor, Dell engineers performed benchmark tests against a variety of High-Performance Computing (HPC) workloads.
Third-Generation AMD Opteron processor includes key architectural enhancements designed to boost performance and energy efficiency over the second-generation processors without sacrificing memory bandwidth.