| Performance | Feature | Function | Benefit |
| Next generation modular core architecture | Optimized performance per watt: - High frequency and low-power design
- Virtualization enhancements
- Shared double-sized Flex FP
- IPC enhancements
| The new processor core can help enhance power efficiency for server products: - Help minimize cooling solution complexities.
- Help reduce power at low utilization.
- Enable more control for IT managers.
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| AMD Turbo CORE Technology | Turns unused TDP headroom into added clock speed for improved performance. | The industry's best full-core boost1 with up to a 300MHz frequency increase2. |
| Flex FP | The world's only flexible 256-bit FPU. Two 128-bit FMACs shared per module, allowing for dedicated 128-bit execution per core or shared 256-bit execution per module. | Enhances flexibility and performance in technical computing. |
| High DDR3 Frequencies | DDR3-1866 MHz support | Outstanding performance for memory intensive applications |
| AMDP2.0 | APML (Advanced Platform Management Link) | Provides an interface for processor and systems management monitoring and controlling of system resources (in APML-enabled platforms); Comprised of the Remote Power Management Interface (RPMI) and the Precision Thermal Monitor | Remote Power Management Interface (RPMI) in: - Ability to monitor and control platform power consumption via p-state limits
- Access to processor identification and health
Precision Thermal Monitor: - Provides accurate information about CPU thermals to closely monitor power/cooling and proactively alert the Base Management Controller (BMC)
- Early notification helps save time and money by providing intelligence that can be used to effectively monitor power and thermals to optimize cooling solutions in an IT datacenter
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| TDP Power Cap | Allows the user to set the maximum processor power ceiling via BIOS or APML. | This technology gives enterprises the ability to customize their chips to meet power and workload demands, providing: - More control over power settings
- Flexibility to set power limits without capping CPU frequencies
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| AMD CoolSpeed Technology | Protects processor integrity by reducing power-states, when a temperature limit is reached. | - Server can automatically drop into lower power mode if processor's thermal environment exceeds safe operational limits
- Offers platform providers the ability to safely reduce system fan speeds, which helps deliver greater platform efficiency
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| C1E | Reduces memory controller and HyperTransport™ technology links' power. | This feature can equate to a significant power savings in your datacenter depending on system configuration, when the Northbridge and HyperTransport™ technology links are powered down and cores are at idle. |
| C6 Support | Core power gating: When a core is halted its context is exported to system memory and voltage is removed from the core. | Helps reduce power consumption at idle to minimize energy consumption when servers are not in use. |
| LV-DDR3 | Support Supports 1.25V and 1.35V DDR3 | Helps to reduce overall power consumption. |
| Ultra-low Power Platform | Specialized ultra-low power platforms great for cloud/dense environments. | Cooperative designs for specialized and ultra-low power platform providing power efficiency beyond just the processor. |
| Direct Connect Architecture 2.0 | HyperTransport™ Technology Assist (HT Assist) | Helps to increase coherent memory bandwidth and reduce latency in multi-node systems by reducing cache probe traffic between cores. | Reduces the amount of cache probe bus traffic enhancing a server's efficiency and scalability. |
| HyperTransport™ 3.0 Technology (HT3) | Provides superior system bandwidth between CPUs and I/O, increasing interconnect rate up to a maximum 6.4GT/s with HT3. | Helps improve overall system balance and scalability. |
| Cache and Core Count | Integration of up to 8 cores within the same package, 1MB L2 cache per core (up to 8MB of L2 cache per socket), and a shared 8MB L3 cache per socket. | Offers outstanding performance and performance/watt for multi-threaded environments like virtualization, database and web serving. |
