AMD today announced the widespread availability and pricing of earlier introduced AMD Opteron Model 2222 and 8222 SE x86 dual-core 64-bit server and workstation processors. The company also said its forthcoming “Barcelona” quad-core Opteron CPUs will have significant performance advantage over the best Intel’s quad-core unit with the same clock speed.
“The new Barcelona projections are based on the latest SPECcpu2006 benchmarks and show that AMD expects to have up to a 50 percent advantage in floating point performance and 20 percent in integer performance over the competition’s highest-performing quad-core processor at the same frequency”, AMD says.
AMD Opteron 2222 SE and AMD Opteron 8222 SE are priced at $873 and $2,149 respectively in 1000-unit tray quantities for direct AMD customers. Both new Socket F (1207) Opterons are clocked at 3GHz and feature 2MB of L2 cache, as well as 119.2 wattage. The 2222 SE model is designed for two-way systems, while the 8222 SE model is made for use in for four- and eight-way servers.
The “Barcelona’s” results, as well as the latest benchmark tests, based on AMD Opteron Model 2222 and 8222 SE processors can be found at www.amd.com/opteronperformance.
