AMD Opteron™ Processor World Tour – Day 5
Welcome to day five of the AMD Opteron™ processor world tour. As we get closer to launching our new 8- and 12-core processors, we’re taking them with us on the road as we visit customers and want to show you where they have been and where they are going. Each day we will bring you new pictures and share a new fact about our ground-breaking 12-core processor.
Today, this Chinese dragon wants to take a bite out of our newest processor. But that’s not the only cruncher in the picture. The AMD Opteron™ 6100 Series processor is a real number cruncher. With 8 or 12 cores AND up to 12 floating point units, you’ll see some serious number crunching for technical applications and HPC applications.
Today’s fact: With up to 12 cores and a clock speed of 2.2GHz or more, this AMD Opteron 6100 Series processor has quite the number crunching power. Each one is capable of 105.6 Gigaflops (12 cores x 4 32-bit FPU instructions x 2.2GHz). And that score is for the 2.2GHz model, which isn’t even the fastest one!
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POSTED IN: AMD Opteron
TAGS: 12 cores, AMD Opteron, Magny Cours, multi-core processors
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Clarification: “up to” 12 FPUs means either 8 for 8-core or 12 for 12-core?
Is there a difference in cache between the 2.2GHz and the faster model(s?)? My basic algorithm for choosing a proc is to max out the cache if I can afford it; faster doesn’t really do much if you can’t keep the FPU fed.
I hear you Joseph. Magny cours still sounds like a strong processor nonetheless. I’m still waiting to see what amd is offering here. I like the idea of having 32GB of ram. That really improves the speed of FFT multiplication and more advanced forms. Magny cours from the prices that have been listed make it the better choice for servers and raw number crunching. But from what I’ve seen a Gulftown may pull ahead in more advanced multiplication techniques.
I just need to see some numbers on one of these babies and I don’t mean pifast or raw Gflops. If raw Gflops was the world, I’d pick up one of those 5970′s with 4GB of memory. Which I’m very tempted to.
To be clear, I don’t see any real way for it not to be; the tech seems well established for 12 cores (2 dies with 6 real cores each is already done, just not as a single CPU). So I fully expect each core to be a real core, not just a stripped-down core. But I don’t know; the chip isn’t out yet and the wording is vague.
I just really don’t like ambiguity.