AMD Release Chip 16 Core AMD Opteron 6200 & Opteron 4200 with 8 Core

Chip maker AMD has begun marketing the Opteron processor 6200 and 4200 series formerly known as Interlagos and Valencia. The first is to have 16 cores, although it was based on Bulldozer architecture that includes eight two core modules. Targeted for enterprise-class servers, AMD promises 84 percent better performance and memory bandwidth is 72 percent larger.

There are 18 chips were released in total, ten of which 6200 series with clock speeds range from 1.6GHz to 3.3GHz. Opteron 4200 series chips remaining eight, has the same clock speed range. One major difference between the 4200s and 6200s is 8MB L3 cache and 16MB cache on the 6200 and 4200 the number of cores in only 6 to 8 cores.

Meanwhile, in 2012 will release from AMD Opteron 3000 series. Chip is the first series will have a code of Zurich, with four to eight cores. This chip is intended for web hosting and web server is an ultra-dense, ultra-low-power micro-1P as a server. Chip Zurich will use the new Socket AM3 +.

Series	Model number	Core/Thread Count	Frequency	Max Turbo	L3 Cache	TDP	Price
4200 series “Valencia”	4226	6/6	2.7GHz	3.1GHz	8MB	95W	$125
	4228 HE	6/6	2.8GHz	3.6GHz	8MB	65W	$255
	4234	6/6	3.1GHz	3.5GHz	8MB	95W	$174
	4238	6/6	3.4GHz	3.7GHz	8MB	95W	$255
	4256 EE	8/8	1.6GHz	2.8GHz	8MB	35W	$377
	4274 HE	8/8	2.6GHz	3.5GHz	8MB	65W	$377
	4280	8/8	2.8GHz	3.5GHz	8MB	95W	$255
	4284	8/8	3.3GHz	3.7GHz	8MB	95W	$316
6200 series “Interlagos”	6204	4/4	3.3GHz	N/A	16MB	115W	$405
	6212	8/8	2.6GHz	3.2GHz	16MB	115W	$266
	6220	8/8	3.0GHz	3.6GHz	16MB	115W	$523
	6234	12/12	2.4GHz	3.1GHz	16MB	115W	$377
	6238	12/12	2.6GHz	3.3GHz	16MB	115W	$455
	6262 HE	16/16	1.6GHz	2.9GHz	16MB	85W	$523
	6272	16/16	2.1GHz	3.1GHz	16MB	115W	$523
	6274	16/16	2.2GHz	3.2GHz	16MB	115W	$639
	6276	16/16	2.3GHz	3.3GHz	16MB	115W	$788
	6282 SE	16/16	2.6GHz	3.5GHz	16MB	140W	$1,019