AMD Opteron 6200 Series Processor Family Wins the Linley Group Analysts' Choice Award

[btarunr]

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that its AMD Opteron 6200 Series processor family, based on the new "Bulldozer" architecture, was chosen as the winner of The Linley Group's first annual Analysts' Choice Awards. The awards recognize the top processor products of 2011 in several major categories including embedded, mobile, PC, server, design IP and related technology. To choose each winner, the Linley Group's team of technology analysts focused on merits of the leading products that began shipping between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2011.

"Our analysts are deeply familiar with processor products and technology, having conducted extensive research in order to deliver the firm's popular publications and reports," said Linley Gwennap, founder and principal analyst at The Linley Group. "We chose the winners on the basis of their performance, power, features and cost as appropriate for their target applications."

This latest award for the AMD Opteron processor comes on the heels of the recent Technology of the Year honors from InfoWorld. AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors along with the Dell PowerEdge R715, which is based on the latest AMD Opteron processors, have both received 2012 Technology of Year awards from the publication.

"The AMD Opteron 6200 Series processor rose to the top of our list of nominees due to its leading performance for high-volume, dual-socket servers," said Bob Wheeler, senior analyst at The Linley Group. "Reported SPEC_rate2006 baseline scores show the AMD Opteron processor Model 6282 SE delivers about 20 percent greater integer performance and nearly 40 percent greater floating-point performance[ii] than comparable processors from the competition and costs about 40 percent less[iii]."

"We are honored to receive this prestigious award from The Linley Group," said Pat Patla, corporate vice president for AMD's Server Business. "Since we launched the new AMD Opteron processor a little more than 2 months ago, the industry has rallied around the combination of innovation and price-performance advantage AMD is delivering to Cloud, HPC and enterprise customers. It is clear the new AMD Opteron processor with our "Bulldozer" technology is a winner."

SPEC and SPECint are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. The results stated above reflect results published on http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/ as of 11/15/11. The comparison presented above is based on the best performing two-socket servers using AMD Opteron processor Model 6282 SE and Intel Xeon processor Model X5690, operating at each processor's default frequency. For the latest SPECint_rate2006 results, visit http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/. SPECint_rate2006 score of 526 using 2 x AMD Opteron processor Model 6282 SE: http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2011q4/cpu2006-20111020-18700.html. SPECint_rate2006 score of 421 using 2 x Intel Xeon X5690: http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2011q3/cpu2006-20110801-17810.html. SVR-68

SPEC and SPECfp are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. The results for AMD Opteron processor Model 6282 SE is based upon data submitted to Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation as of November 7, 2011. The other result reflects results published on http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results as of November 7, 2011. The comparison presented above is based on the best performing two-socket servers using AMD Opteron processor Model 6282 SE and Intel Xeon processor Model X5690 operating at each processor's default frequency. For the latest SPECfp_rate2006 results, visit http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results. SPECfp_rate2006 score = 383, 2 x AMD Opteron processors Model 6282 SE in Supermicro A+ Server 1022-URF server, 128GB (16 x 8GB DDR3-1333) memory, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1, x86 Open64 4.2.5.2 Compiler Suite, SPECfp_rate2006 score = 274, 2 x Intel Xeon processors Model X5690 in Cisco UCS B200 M2 server, 48 GB (12 x 4 GB 2Rx4 PC3L-10600R-9, ECC) memory, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1, Intel C++ Compiler XE v.12.0.1.116 SVR-82

Pricing claim based on 1KU pricing of AMD Opteron 6282 SE processor ($1,019) vs. Intel Xeon processor Model X5690 ($1663)

Based on results published by the Transaction Processing Performance Council as of November 15, 2011, an AMD Opteron processor-based server achieved the highest TPC-C performance score of any 2P server. 1,207,982 tpmC using 2 x AMD Opteron processors Model 6282 SE in HP ProLiant DL385 G7 server, 512GB memory, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise x64 Edition SP3. http://www.tpc.org/results/individual_results/HP/HP_ProLiant_DL385G7_TPCC_111114_01_es.pdf. For the latest TPC-C results, visit www.tpc.org. TPC Benchmark and TPC-C are trademarks of the Transaction Processing Performance Council. SVR-105

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[suraswami]

is there any score chart or comparison scores?

 

[seronx]

is there any score chart or comparison scores?

http://www.spec.org/cgi-bin/osgresults?conf=cpu2006

Set to Processor and name of processor 6282 and X5690

 

[TheGuruStud]

I expect this to stay cricket chirping quiet. No one wants to see cheap opteron servers banging xeons around.

 

[Widjaja]

Well good to see the AMD optmorons are doing well in a category against Intel chips of the same purpose.

 

[Super XP]

Good job AMD.

 

[Thefumigator]

if you want a gaming computer get a core i7
if you want a supercomputer, get a quad G34 system.
Not saying that you can't build a supercomputer with intel, but the cost of G34 based motherboards and cpus is really low compared to the competition.
G34 does makes sense, a lot.

 

[TRWOV]

delivers about 20 percent greater integer performance and nearly 40 percent greater floating-point performance[ii] than comparable processors

Would have expected those figures inverted (+40% INT, +20% FP). Wasn't BD rigged for superior integer performance?

 

[xenocide]

Opteron Setup:
2x Opteron 6282 SE
32 Cores -- 32 Threads
128GB DDR3-1333 RAM

Xeon Setup
2x Xeon X5690
12 Cores -- 24 Threads
48GB DDR3-1066 RAM

Seems a tad lopsided. It's great AMD won, but why didn't they compare them using identical RAM setups, or as close to identical as possible? Running one of the setups with 33% the amount of RAM as the other, and using RAM that's slower as well, seems like a weak way to do comparisons.

 

[TRWOV]

Maybe that's what the platform supports?

 

[Super XP]

Let's say those two platforms cost the same, which one would you buy? In this case the AMD costs cheaper and offers a dump load more.
Once again, good job AMD

 

[xenocide]

Let's say those two platforms cost the same, which one would you buy? In this case the AMD costs cheaper and offers a dump load more.
Once again, good job AMD

Gotta bring this up again;
http://arstechnica.com/business/new...chmarks-are-here-and-theyre-a-catastrophe.ars

At the highest level, they don't appear to be a tremendous value, even by AMD's math.

 

[de.das.dude]

I expect this to stay cricket chirping quiet. No one wants to see cheap opteron servers banging xeons around.

imma send this link to my bro who is the head server manager of a bank of a whole state