AMD PowerNow!™ technology can reduce CPU power at idle up to 75%!
The AMD Opteron™ processor family now includes AMD PowerNow!™ technology with Optimized Power Management (OPM). AMD PowerNow! technology for the AMD Opteron processor can decrease overall power consumption for enterprise IT and workstation customers by optimizing performance-on-demand.
The addition of AMD's innovative AMD PowerNow! technology with OPM strengthens the industry-leading performance-per-watt capabilities of the AMD Opteron processor. Not only does AMD PowerNow! technology with OPM provide enhanced power management capabilities, it can also aid in platform investment protection for today's demanding enterprise server environments by providing less strain on datacenter cooling and ventilation systems.
Customer Benefits
- Provides performance-on-demand by dynamically adjusting performance based on CPU utilization – helping systems to run at optimum performance and power levels, reducing electricity costs while maximizing IT budget dollars.
- Optimizes Platform Power Consumption – enabling servers & workstations to run cooler and quieter
- Can reduce CPU power at Idle by 75%
- The most sophisticated power management solution available
Partner Endorsements
- HP - “Power efficiency is one of a set of emerging components that is redefining the total cost of ownership for datacenter solutions,” said Paul Miller, vice president of marketing, Industry Standard Servers, HP. “AMD Opteron processor-based HP ProLiant servers coupled with the power management advantages of AMD PowerNow! technology will enable our customers to manage their datacenters, offering the greatest rack density, while at the same time reducing IT operating costs. That combination is tough to beat.”
- IBM - “IBM is committed to optimizing the datacenter environment and IBM PowerExecutive and Calibrated Vectored Cooling technologies already bring distinct advantages to our customers,” said Alex Yost, director, IBM eServer Product Management. “AMD PowerNow! technology adds to these solutions to ensure the performance-per-watt efficiencies, and expands our choice of the best data center solutions for our customers.”
- Sun - “Our joint customers expect us to deliver on the promise of innovation throughout the datacenter—from OS-level innovation in Solaris 10 to processor-level innovation like AMD PowerNow! technology,” said John Fowler, executive vice president at Sun Microsystems. “This additional technology from AMD will give our Sun Fire servers and Sun Java Workstations based on the AMD Opteron processor even better performance-per-watt capabilities, which is directly in line with Sun's goal of simplifying the datacenter.”
- TYAN - "AMD PowerNow! provides vastly reduced energy usage on system platforms without sacrificing performance, while at the same time providing more control on overhead as never before possible," said Danny Hsu, Vice-President of Sales and Marketing at Tyan. "Through the inclusion of this exciting technology, Tyan customers will realize higher cost savings from their IT infrastructures: further proof that Tyan enables its customers to become technology leaders in their respective segments."
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Tyan Computer Corporation is the first manufacturer to supply a recommended motherboard that features
AMD PowerNow!™ technology with Optimized Power Management (OPM).
Learn more about the Tyan Thunder K8QS Pro now!
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AMD PowerNow!™ technology can reduce CPU power at idle up to 75%!
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