After reporting yesterday about the processors magny-Cours with twelve core on one base layer, AMD representatives reported about the characteristics of these processors new generation opteron. We start from Magny-Cours opteron processors which will acquire the support of DDR-3 memory .
In essence, even the memory controller of present opteron processors is capable to support DDR-3, but AMD did not introduce the support of this memory type for some reasons. From the architectural side the processors magny-Cours will be based on istanbul processors , which have six core on one crystal. To each core there 512 KB cache in the second level, and the cache volume in the third level will be 2 X 6 mb. The processors magny-Cours will find use in the servers with processor quantity from two to four pieces.
With the reference to the words of AMD representatives 12 core processors magny-Cours will possess the same energy consumption level as six-core istanbul processor . Now these processors have a ACP level not more than 105 W with the frequency value not more than 2.8 GHz. As explain AMD representatives , in case of Magny-Cours the frequency will below, the companies will increase the quantity of core two times with the use of the same 45 nm technical process. New energy-saving functions will be added for savings electric power. The detailed characteristics of magny-Cours processors will become known nearer to the announcement, which is planned for the first quarter 2010.
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