HP DL585 - - G2 manual Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors

Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors

AMD introduced the quad-core AMD Opteron (see Figure 3) in September of 2007. It included several innovations:

•A new core microarchitecture – K8L (true quad-core on a single die)

•Extensions to AMD64 instruction set – bit manipulation and SSE, SSE2, SSE3, and SSE4

•128-bit FPU for improved floating point and graphics performance

•AMD Smart Fetch Technology Support for DDR2 memory

•Dedicated 64-KB L1 cache and 512-KB L2 cache for each core

•2-MB to 6-MB L3 cache shared among all cores

•65 nm silicon process technology

•Enhanced AMD PowerNow! with Independent Dynamic Core Technology and Dual Dynamic Power Management

•AMD-V™ with Rapid Virtualization Indexing

Figure 3. The Socket F (1207) design supports Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors.

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