AMD Opteron 4200 Series Quick Reference Manual

AMD Opteron ™ 4200 Series Processor Quick Reference Guide
The world' s lowest power x86 cloud processor
AMD Opteron ™ 4200 Series Processor
KEY FEATURES
> > New>Core>Architecture — drives more core density and
greater throughput
> > AMD>Turbo>CORE>Technology — allows processors
to independently boost their clock speeds, scaling
frequency up 300MHz-1.2GHz automatically to respond
to the need for more application performance
> > C6>Power>State — reduces processor power
consumption at active idle by up to 39%
> > AMD>Virtualization ™ >(AMD-V ™ )>Technology>2.0 —
heightens virtualization efficiency with new
enhancements to the AMD-V ™ suite of virtualization
to optimize data center rack space and help minimize
management tasks
1 As of March 16, 2012 AMD Opteron ™ processor Models 4200 EE have the lowest known power per core of any x86 server processor, at 35W
TDP (35W/8 = 4.375W/core). Intel' s lowest power per core server processor, Intel Xeon E5-2650L, is 70W TDP (70W/8 = 8.75W/core). See www.
intc.com/pricelist.cfm as of 3/16/12. Previous record held by AMD Opteron processor Models 4100 EE at 35W TDP / 6 cores = 5.83 W/core.
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2 AMD Opteron 4200 Series processors experience all core boost of up to 300 MHz (P2 base to P1 boost state) and up to 1.2 GHz max turbo boost
(half or fewer cores boost from P2 to P0 boost state). SVR-63
3 Based on testing in AMD Performance Labs as of March 2012, an AMD Opteron
active idle C1E power state while an AMD Opteron ™ processor model 4284 (8-core 3.0GHz) consumes only 3.977W in the active idle C1E power
state with new C6 power gating employed. System configuration: "Kruger-P" reference design kit, 32GB (4x 8GB DDR3-1066) memory, Seagate
ST3500413AS SATA disk drive, Microsoft ® Windows Server 2008 x64 Enterprise Edition R2 SP1. SVR-62
4 Based on AMD Opteron 4100 Series processor at 346 mm2 vs. AMD Opteron 4200 Series processor at 316mm2. SVR-46
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Designed for enterprise workloads while still delivering a
performance punch
> A 33% increase in core count packs in plenty of processing
performance into a smaller, more efficient, 8-core design while
maintaining very aggressive power/thermal ranges
> Power per core that shatters the 5W/core mark, a new record
for an enterprise-class x86 processor
> New power management capabilities allow for larger parts of
the processor to be almost completely powered off when not
being used, dramatically reducing idle core power consumption
by up to 39% over the previous generation of processors and
allowing active cores to run at a higher frequency
> AMD Turbo CORE technology takes advantage of additional
power headroom to digitally boost all cores simultaneously
by up to 300MHz and can boost up to 1.2GHz when only half
of the cores are active
quickly and return to lower power states
> Straight-through computing helps ensure that there are not
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bottlenecks or compromises as up to eight threads get their
own dedicated core when workload demands increase with
maximum memory channel and I/O speed (across all SKUs/
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price points) helping to ensure that there are no bottlenecks or
feature compromises unlike Intel, who purposely throttles down
capabilities
Delivering new levels of enterprise scalability for demanding
cloud applications and SMB/Infrastructure applications
> Scale your cloud workload with up to 8 cores in a low power
processor
™ processor model 4174 (6-core 2.3GHz) consumes 6.47W in the
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2 , allowing applications to finish tasks
5 Based on 8-core AMD Opteron 4200 Series processors at 35W, 65W and 95W TDP compared to 6-core AMD Opteron 4100 Series processors
at 35W, 65W and 95W TDP when utilizing the 1 VM per core loading rule. SVR-59
6 SPEC and SPECint are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. The results reflect results published onhttp://
www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/ as of 4/12/12. The comparison presented above is based on the best performing two-socket servers using AMD
Opteron ™ processor Models 4184 and 4284. For the latest SPECint ® _rate2006 results, visit http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/. 285 using 2
x AMD Opteron ™ processors Model 4284 in Dell PowerEdge R515 server, 32 GB (4 x 8 GB 2Rx4 PC3-12800R-11, ECC), Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Server release 6.1, Kernel 2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.x86_64, C/C++: Version 4.2.5.2 of x86 Open64 Compiler Suite (from AMD), http://www.spec.org/
cpu2006/results/res2011q4/cpu2006-20111206-19137.html; 237 using 2 x AMD Opteron
32GB (8 x 4GB DDR3-1333) memory, SuSE Linux ® Enterprise Server 11, x86 Open64 4.2.4 Compiler Suite, http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/
res2010q4/cpu2006-20100927-13463.html. SVR-120
> Efficiently scales performance/watt based on the innovative
modular design and aggressive power capabilities
> New power saving features, like TDP Power Cap, put the
customer in control of more aspects of power efficiency than
ever before on AMD Opteron ™ processor-based servers
> Up to 8 cores and more processing throughput
previous generation helps your cloud easily scale within
the most fluid and spiky processing environments, easily
responding to the elastic needs of clouds
Bringing unparalleled efficiency to your processing, power and
financial budgets
> The lowest enterprise-class power per core with up to 8 cores
in only 35W of power, shattering the previous record
> 32nm design and a smaller die 4 drive more efficiency at
the processor level to help ensure you are maximizing your
performance per watt per square foot
> Virtualized infrastructure deployments can enjoy 33% more
VMs in the same power and thermal ranges
new AMD-V ™ virtualization features, allowing small/medium
businesses to grow with their business needs on a single
virtualized platform
> New instructions make processing technical software
commands more efficient, allowing for more computing per
cycle, which helps drive down processing requirements so that
web/cloud applications can more easily process their workload
and return to lower power states
> Easy on your budget through both unprecedented value
and low power consumption, helping hold down not only
acquisition costs but also the long-term total cost of ownership
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™ processors Model 4184 in Dell PowerEdge R415 server,
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