Advanced Micro Devices has launched a low-power version of its six-core Opteron processor.
The six-core AMD Opteron EE consumes 40 watts, and is designed for 2P servers, among the most popular in the virtualized server space. The chip will cost $989, and will begin shipping on today.
To maintain the same thermal envelope as the previous generation chip,
the Opteron 2419 EE runs at 1.8 GHz, versus the 2.0+ GHz clock speeds
of the "Shanghai" Opteron generation. AMD claims that the 2419 EE
offers up to a third more performance than the 2377 EE, a four-core
chip whose cores were clocked at 2.3 GHz, which also ran at a 40-watt
thermal envelope.
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