AMD Barcelona processors set to ship in August
AMD has announced that it will begin shipping quad-core Opteron (Barcelona) server CPUs in August, and expects products from its platform partners to become available in September. AMD highlighted that it plans to release both standard and low-power versions, with frequencies at launch ranging up to 2GHz.
As noted in earlier reports, Barcelona CPUs are designed to be swap-in compatible with existing AMD Opteron platforms, with only a BIOS update required. AMD stated that the new CPUs could offer up to 70% more performance than previous Opteron CPUs in certain database applications, and up to 40% more in some floating-point workloads. However, the company did not give any specific details regarding under what circumstances customers can expect to see these benefits.
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