Honor From Leading Analyst Firm One of Several Recent Accolades for the Server Price-Performance Leader
SUNNYVALE, CA, Jan 23, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --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(i) 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."
Other recent Awards and Top Performance ratings for the AMD Opteron
6200 Series processor-based servers include:
-- IT PRO Editor's Choice for the Dell PowerEdge R815
-- Top TPC-C 2-Socket score on the HP ProLiant DL385 G7(iv)
-- Top 2-node blade VMmark 2.1 on the HP ProLiant BL685c G7; largest ever
published result on a blade server(v)
About AMD
AMD (NYSE: AMD) is a semiconductor design innovator leading
the next era of vivid digital experiences with its groundbreaking AMD
Fusion Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) that power a wide range of
computing devices. AMD's server computing products are focused on
driving industry-leading cloud computing and virtualization
environments. AMD's superior graphics technologies are found in a
variety of solutions ranging from game consoles, PCs to
supercomputers. For more information, visit http://www.amd.com.
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AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, AMD Opteron and combinations thereof, are
trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Other names are for
informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
(i) 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(TM) processor Model
6282 SE and Intel Xeon processor Model X5690, operating at each
processor's default frequency. For the latest SPECint(R)_rate2006
results, visit http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/.
SPECint(R)_rate2006 score of 526 using 2 x AMD Opteron(TM) processor
Model 6282 SE:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2011q4/cpu2006-20111020-18700.html.
SPECint(R)_rate2006 score of 421 using 2 x Intel Xeon X5690:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2011q3/cpu2006-20110801-17810.html.
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(ii) SPEC and SPECfp are registered trademarks of the Standard
Performance Evaluation Corporation. The results for AMD Opteron(TM)
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(TM) 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(R)_rate2006 score = 383,
2 x AMD Opteron(TM) 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(R)_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
(iii) Pricing claim based on 1KU pricing of AMD Opteron 6282 SE
processor ($1,019) vs. Intel Xeon processor Model X5690 ($1663)
(iv) Based on results published by the Transaction Processing
Performance Council as of November 15, 2011, an AMD Opteron(TM)
processor-based server achieved the highest TPC-C performance score
of any 2P server. 1,207,982 tpmC using 2 x AMD Opteron(TM) processors
Model 6282 SE in HP ProLiant DL385 G7 server, 512GB memory,
Microsoft(R) Windows Server(R) 2008 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition,
Microsoft(R) SQL Server(R) 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
(v) Highest VMmark score for blade servers using 2 Host configuration
as of November, 2011, with the BL685c G7 system
http://www.vmware.com/a/assets/vmmark/pdf/2011-11-29-HP-BL685cG7.pdf.
VMware(R) VMmark(R) is a product of VMware, Inc.
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