- Direct connect architecture
- HyperTransport technology links
- Integrated on-chip memory controller
- Hardware-assisted AMD Virtualization technology
- Rapid virtualization indexing
- AMD PowerNow! technology
- Independent dynamic core technology
- Dual Dynamic Power Management
- AMD CoolCore technology
- AMD Smart Fetch technology
- AMD Memory Optimizer technology
- AMD balanced smart cache
- AMD wide floating-point accelerator
- Same Socket technology
- Common core strategy
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.