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Third-Generation AMD Opteron™ Processor Server Competitive Comparison
| System Comparison |
Quad-Core
AMD Opteron™ Processors |
Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5400 Series1 |
Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5300 Series1 |
Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 7000 Series3,4 |
Intel Itanium 2 processor 9000 Series5 |
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| Modular, glueless scalability |
Yes |
Requires Northbridge |
Requires Northbridge |
Requires Northbridge |
Requires Northbridge/SNC |
| SMP Capabilities |
Up to 8 Sockets/32 Cores
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Up to 2 Sockets/8 Cores |
Up to 2 Sockets/8 Cores |
Up to 4 Sockets/16 Cores |
Up to 16 Sockets/32 Cores |
| Direct Connect Architecture |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Native Mulit-Core Technololgy |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Dual-Core only |
| High-Performance 32-bit and 64-bit computing |
AMD64 |
EM64T |
EM64T |
EM64T |
Epic |
| HyperTransport™ technology |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Integrated DDR2 memory controller |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Hardware-Assisted Virtualization |
AMD-V™ with Rapid Virtualization Indexing |
VT |
VT |
VT |
VT |
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| Memory support |
RDDR2 400/533/667 |
FBDIMM 533/667 (800)2 |
FBDIMM 533/667 |
FBDIMM 533/667 |
RDDR2 400 |
| Maximum Memory Bandwidth 2P System |
21.2GB/s† |
21.2GB/s (25.6GB/s)2 |
21.2GB/s |
32GB/s |
12.8GB/s |
| Maximum Memory Bandwidth 4P System |
42.7GB/s †† |
N/A |
N/A |
32GB/s |
12.8GB/s
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| Maximum I/O bandwidth with 2P System |
16.0GB/s† |
14GB/s |
14GB/s |
6GB/s |
10.6GB/s |
| Maximum I/O bandwidth with 4P System |
32.0GB/s †† |
N/A |
N/A |
6GB/s |
10.6GB/s |
| Maximum Total bandwidth with 2P System |
37.2GB/s † |
21.2GB/s (25.6GB/s)2 |
21.2GB/s |
N/A |
N/A |
| Maximum Graphics Support with 2P System |
Dual PCIe® x16 |
Single PCIe® x16 |
Single PCIe® x16 |
N/A |
N/A |
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| L1 cache size (max) |
64KB (Data) + 64KB (Instruction) per core |
32KB (Data) + 32KB (Instruction) per core |
32KB (Data) + 32KB (Instruction) per core |
32KB (Data) + 32KB (Instruction) per core |
16KB (Data) + 16KB (Instruction) per core |
| L2 cache size (max) |
512KB per core |
4MB (shared) x 2 |
4MB (shared) x 2 |
8MB shared (2 x 4MB) |
256KB per core |
| L3 cache size (max) |
2MB (shared) |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Up to 24MB Shared |
| SIMD Instruction Set Support |
SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4A |
SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1 |
SSE, SSE2, SSE3 |
SSE2, SSE3 |
N/A |
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| Dedicated Bandwidth |
| Shared Bandwidth |
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