AMD Channel News

July 2012

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AMD = App Acceleration

Offer Your Customers More With Groundbreaking AMD App Acceleration

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AMD – Still the ‘Price/Performance’ Leader!

Only AMD can combine the power of a discrete graphic experience with multi-core processing at an incredible price with A-Series APUs.

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PowerColor HD 7870: The Vortex II Technology from TUL

Like its definition, the Vortex II cooling system draws air from around the graphics card and funnels that air into the center of the card to effectively cool vital components.

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Latest HP ProLiant Gen8 Servers Integrate New AMD Opteron™ Processors for High-Performance Systems

AMD Cranks Up World’s Best Price/Performance x86 Server Processor.

AMD = App Acceleration

Offer Your Customers More With Groundbreaking AMD App Acceleration:

  • Rich and clear video playback when streaming from the web
  • Shutter-free, HD-quality movies
  • Run multiple applications smoothly at maximum speed
  • Lightning fast game play & realistic physics effects

App Acceleration with AMD APUs

Today more than 100 apps are accelerated with A-Series APUs and list continues to grow!

Adobe® Photoshop® CS6

Liquify Test with OpenGL Enabled
AMD A8 is 24% quicker than Intel’s i5 at half the cost.1


WinZip® 16.5

Max Compression of Wave Files
AMD A8 is 50% quicker than Intel’s i5 at half the cost.1


Learn More about AMD APUs


App Acceleration with Radeon™ GPUs

AMD Radeon™ – Quality Graphics Start Here

Adobe® Photoshop® CS6

AMD Radeon™ 6570 gives 350% better image processing than Intel’s i7.2
Adobe Photoshop is the ‘App of the Month’ for June!


Learn More about Adobe® Photoshop® CS6 Acceleration

Learn more with the AMD/Adobe Partner Brief

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AMD – Still the ‘Price/Performance’ Leader!

Only AMD can combine the power of a discrete graphic experience with multi-core processing at an incredible price with A-Series APUs.

Anantech’s HTPC Builders Guide applauds AMD APUs saying, “…It is universally agreed that AMD presents some of the most economical HTPC building blocks targeted towards budget system builders.”

Read Anatech’s AMD Llano HTPC Builder’s Guide

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PowerColor HD 7870: The Vortex II Technology from TUL

Like its definition, the Vortex II cooling system draws air from around the graphics card and funnels that air into the center of the card to effectively cool vital components.

Unique Features:

  • Gives users the ability to manually adjust the fan and its physical attributes
  • Anti-Turbulence technology dissipates heat effectively
  • Features perforation blades to increase air flow

Learn More

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Latest HP ProLiant Gen8 Servers Integrate New AMD Opteron™ Processors for High-Performance Systems – AMD Cranks Up World’s Best Price/Performance x86 Server Processor4

Last month, HP launched two HP ProLiant Gen8 servers using the new AMD Opteron processors and plans to refresh the ProLiant DL585 G7 and the BL685c G7 later this year.

The new HP ProLiant Gen8 servers utilize the latest AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors to help drive better performance and scalability for virtualization, HPC and database workloads. Combining the additional clock speed of the new AMD Opteron processors with the new HP ProLiant Gen8 features, allows for increased performance, simplified maintenance and improved data center uptime. New models include:

  • HP ProLiant Gen8 DL385p, a 2U performance-based rack server designed for virtualization, database and high performance computing workloads;
  • HP ProLiant Gen8 BL465c, the first server blade with 2,000 cores per rack for virtualization, database and high-performance workloads.

The five new processors tout a 100 MHz performance advantage over their predecessors without any increase in power consumption. These additions underscore AMD’s commitment to create a broad portfolio of processor options for its customers, all of which offer superior price/performance. The new processors are:

  • AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors:
    • AMD Opteron™ 6284 SE: 16-core 2.7 GHz, 140 watts TDP, $1,265*
    • AMD Opteron™ 6278: 16-core 2.4 GHz, 115 watts TDP, $989*
  • AMD Opteron 4200 Series processors:
    • AMD Opteron™ 4276 HE: 8-core 2.6 GHz, 65 watts TDP, $455*
    • AMD Opteron™ 4240: 6-core 3.4 GHz, 95 watts TDP, $316*
    • AMD Opteron™ 4230: 6-core 2.9 GHz, 65 watts TDP, $377*

More information on the AMD Opteron family can be found at amd.com.

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1 Testing by AMD Performance labs measuring WinZip Compression time of 1015 Wave files w/ sub directories totaling 83.4MB. The AMD A8-3850K APU with AMD Radeon™ HD 6550D graphics using 2x4GB DDR3-1866, and driver 8.942averaged 4.24 seconds using OpenCL. The Intel Core i5-3570K using 2x4GB DDR3-1600 memory, and 8.15.10.2712 driver averaged 6.67 seconds. Intel Core i5 CPU did not support OpenCL™ acceleration at time of test on May 2, 2012. Scores averaged over 3 separate runs. All systems using Windows 7 64bit. DTLY-26 and DTLY-c22

2 Testing by AMD Performance labs measuring the time to complete the Liquify action in Adobe Photoshop CS6 on a 60.2 MB PSD format source file with an image resolution of 5616x3744. The AMD A8-3850 APU with AMD Radeon™ HD 6550D graphics using 2x4GB DDR3-1600 averaged 11.92 seconds using driver 8.95. The Intel Core i5-3570K CPU with HD 4000 graphics sing 2x4GB DDR3-1600 averaged 14.8 seconds using driver 8.15.10.2712. Intel Core i5 CPU did not support OpenCL™ acceleration at time of test on May 2, 2012. Times averaged over 3 separate runs. All systems using Windows 7 64bit. DTLY-C22

3 Testing was performed by AMD using test scripts and a 60.2 MB .psd format source fi le of a 5616x3744 resolution image provided by Adobe. Results based on Total Elapsed Time (time to complete a CMYK 300 Blur scripted render test) measurement in Adobe® Photoshop® CS6 (beta version) based benchmark comparing Intel Core i7-2600K systems with (103.579s) and without (507.829s) AMD Radeon™ HD 6570 graphics, 2GB DDR3. Confi guration: Intel Core i7-2600K (@ 3.4GHz with Intel HD 3000 graphics) 4 Core 8 Thread, Gigabyte H67MA-USB3-B3, Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) 1333MHz 9-9-9-24 (TW3X4G1333C9A G), Windows 7 Ultimate RTM 64-bit. Drivers: 8.15.10.2622, 8.951 RC2. (GRDT-12)

4 SPEC and SPECint are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. The results stated above reflect SPECint_rate2006 results published on http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/ as of 1/23/12. The performance component of the comparison is based on the best performing two-socket servers using AMD Opteron™ processors and Intel Xeon processors, operating at each processor’s default frequency. Intel Xeon X5690 (435): HP ProLiant DL380 G7 (3.46 GHz, Intel Xeon X5690), 48 GB (12 x 4 GB 2Rx4 PC3-10600R-9, ECC), Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.1, Kernel 2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.x86_64, C/C++: Version 12.1.0.225 of Intel Compiler XE Build 20110803, http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2011q4/cpu2006-20111121-18997.html. AMD Opteron 6282 SE (543): ASUS KGPE-D16 server motherboard (2.6 GHz AMD Opteron 6282 SE), 128 GB (16 x 8 GB 2Rx4 PC3-12800R-11, ECC), Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.1, Kernel 2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.x86_64, C/C++: Version 4.2.5.2 of x86 Open64 Compiler Suite (from AMD), http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2011q4/cpu2006-20111024-18714.html. The price component of the comparison is based on similarly configured HP servers with the processors from the performance comparison. HP DL380 G7 (2P), $7544, pricing as of 1/23/12 on www.hp.com. HP ProLiant DL380 G7 with 2 x Intel Xeon processor Model X5690, 32GB memory, 1x72GB 15K HDD ($289), DVD, and 3yr base warranty. HP DL385 G7 (2P), $5441, pricing as of 2/10/12 on www.hp.com. HP ProLiant with 2 x AMD Opteron processor Model 6282 SE, 32GB memory, 1x72GB 15K HDD ($289), and 3yr base warranty. SVR-118

* AMD Opteron processor pricing can be found at http://www.amd.com/us/products/pricing/Pages/server-opteron.aspx