AMD has introduced the 12- and 16-core AMD Opteron™ 6300 Series server processors, code named “Warsaw.” Designed for enterprise workloads, the new AMD Opteron 6300 Series processors feature the “Piledriver” core and are fully socket and software compatible with the existing AMD Opteron 6300 Series.  The power efficiency and cost effectiveness of the new products are ideal for the AMD Open 3.0 Open Compute Platform.

The AMD Opteron 6338P (12 core) and 6370P (16 core) processors are optimised to handle the heavily virtualised workloads found in enterprise environments, including the more complex compute needs of data analysis, xSQL and traditional databases, at optimal performance per-watt, per-dollar.

“With the continued move to virtualised environments for more efficient server utilization, more and more workloads are limited by memory capacity and I/O bandwidth,” said Suresh Gopalakrishnan, corporate vice president and general manager, server business unit, AMD. “The Opteron 6338P and 6370P processors are server CPUs optimised to deliver improved performance per-watt for virtualised private cloud deployments with less power and at lower cost points.”

Features and Specifications

Model Number: 6370P

Cores: 16

Base Frequency: 2.0 GHz

Max AMD Turbo CORE frequency: 2.5 GHz

TDP: 99W

Memory support: Quad channel U/RDDR3 up to DDR3-1600; ULV and LRDIMM support

Model Number: 6338P

Cores: 12

Base Frequency: 2.3 GHz

Max AMD Turbo CORE frequency: 2.8 GHz

TDP 99W

Memory Support: Quad channel U/RDDR3 up to DDR3-1600; ULV and LRDIMM support

The AMD Opteron 6338P and 6370P processors are available through Penguin and Avnet system integrators and have been qualified for servers from Sugon and Supermicro at a starting price of $377 and $598, respectively.