AMD Launches the AMD Opteron X-Series Family: the Industry's

AMD Launches the AMD Opteron X-Series Family: the Industry's Highest Performance Small Core x86 Server Processors

SUNNYVALE, CA -- (Marketwired) -- May 29, 2013 -- AMD (NYSE: AMD) today unveiled a new family of low power server processors: the AMD Opteron™ X-Series optimized for scale-out server architectures. The first AMD Opteron X-Series processors, formerly known as "Kyoto," are the highest density, most power-efficient small core x86 processors ever built(1). The new X1150 and X2150 processors beat the top performing Intel Atom processor on key performance benchmarks(2), including single thread and throughput performance with superior power-efficiency, twice the cores and L2 cache with a more advanced pipeline architecture, higher integration and support for up to 32 gigabytes of DRAM -- 4x more than the Intel Atom processor.

The AMD Opteron X-Series processors come in two variants. The AMD Opteron X2150, which consumes as little as 11 watts, is the first server APU system-on-a-chip integrating CPU and GPU engines with a high-speed bus on a single die. This enables customers to take advantage of leading-edge AMD Radeon™ HD 8000 graphics technology for multimedia-oriented server workloads. The AMD Opteron X1150, which consumes as little as 9 watts, is a CPU-only version optimized for general scale-out workloads.

"The data center is at an inflection point and requires a high number of cores in a dense form factor with integrated graphics, massive amounts of DRAM and unprecedented power efficiency to keep up with the pace of innovation of Internet services," said Andrew Feldman, corporate vice president and general manager, Server Business Unit at AMD. "AMD has a proud history of server innovation, and the AMD Opteron X-Series processors challenge the status quo by providing unmatched capabilities to drive the most energy-efficient servers in the industry."

The AMD Opteron X-Series processors are now the world's premier small-core x86 APUs and CPUs, ideal for next-generation scale-out web and cloud applications ranging from big data analytics to image processing, multimedia content delivery, and hosting.

"Fundamental changes in computing architectures are required to support space, power and cost demands organizations need to deliver compelling, new infrastructure economics," said Paul Santeler, vice president and general manager, Hyperscale Server business segment, HP. "The new x86 AMD Opteron X-Series processors integrated into future HP Moonshot servers will continue to push the boundaries of power efficiency for social, mobile, cloud and big data workloads."

The AMD Opteron X-Series versus Intel Atom S1260

                                                                            
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                                      AMD              Intel         AMD    
                                Opteron™ X-Series   Atom S1260    Advantage 
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        x86 CPU Cores                   4                2           2X     
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                               128 AMD Radeon™ HD                           
          GPU Cores                8000 Cores          None       AMD Only  
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     Max. DRAM Per Socket            32 GB*            8 GB          4X     
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       Max. DRAM Speed              DDR3-1600        DDR3-1333      1.2X    
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           L2 Cache                   2 MB             1 MB          2X     
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                               28.9 @ 2 GHz (CPU)                           
    Throughput Performance          (est.)(2)      13.0 @ 2 GHz     2.2X    
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                               10.0 @ 2 GHz (CPU)                           
  Single Thread Performance         (est.)(2)       5.2 @ 2 GHz     1.9X    
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    Integrated SATA Ports              Yes              No        AMD Only  
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