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AMD Unveils 'Istanbul' Six-Shooter Opteron

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8:50 PM - February 23, 2009 by Aaron Heibert

AMD has shown off its first working demonstration of its counter punch to Intel, a six-core Opteron processor code-named “Istanbul”.

Istanbul is a pretty straight forward socket upgrade over AMDs current Shanghai Opterons. A 45nm processor with 6 MB of L3 cache that fits into a Socket-F style mainboard, only now with six cores rather than Shanghai’s four cores. The end result is that Istanbul will provide a direct drop-in upgrade for existing Socket-F systems without the need to change major components or perform software upgrades/changes.

AMD had originally stated that Istanbul processors would become available in the second half of this year (2009), however no other information has been released as to exactly when we could expect to see them becoming publicly available. Though, with the recent working demonstration of Istanbul, it may be safe to say that we could expect them slightly earlier than originally projected.

AMD demonstrated the Istanbul six-core and ran an identical Shanghai system beside it and performed Stream based benchmarks, both with HyperTransport 3 active (note that HyperTransport 3 is not currently available in shipping Shanghai products).  The Shanghai system configured with 16-cores produced a throughput in the range of 25,000 MB/sec. while the 24-core Istanbul configuration produced about 42,000 MB/sec.. That is nearly double the performance gained by the addition of only fifty-percent more cores.

This gain in performance is attribued to a feature AMD calls a probe filtering or properly put, a snoop filtering, which functions to reduce traffic on socket-to-socket HyperTransport links by storing an index of all caches and preventing unnecessary coherency synchronization requests. Current Opterons use a broadcast-based probe protocol, sending probe requests to all sockets.

AMD is currently planning a full lineup of six-core Opterons based on Istanbul including low-power HE versions and high-performance SE models, all within customary Opteron power and thermal envelopes.

Source : Tom's Hardware US

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Tekkamanraiden 02/24/2009 3:10 AM
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Shaggy and Scooby?

Silluete 02/24/2009 3:28 AM
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Way to go AMD.

Economister 02/24/2009 3:44 AM
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"That is nearly double the performance gained by the addition of only fifty-percent more cores."
No it isn't. As a matter of fact, it is about 68% more performance from 50% more cores.

aznguy0028 02/24/2009 3:48 AM
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gotta love their progress. woot to competition!

aznguy0028 02/24/2009 3:49 AM
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joeman42 02/24/2009 4:06 AM
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Why doesn't AMD release a 6-core processor for desktop? After all, something like AMD Phenom II X6 would be a worthy opponent to the Core i7. And yes, I know that Intel has a 8-core Xeon coming out.

Dekasav 02/24/2009 4:18 AM
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68% more performance for 50% more cores is still a wicked improvement. Even linear scaling is tough, let alone managing to use a similar system more efficiently with all those cores to bog down memory/HDD/intercore connections.

turbolover22 02/24/2009 5:17 AM
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Tekkamanraiden :
Shaggy and Scooby?




You gotta name 'em something. Why not make it something that represents your character or hobbies.

jsloan 02/24/2009 5:19 AM
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nice, but how much and when will it trickle down to the desktop. i bet intel will answer with an 8 core...

Aceprowler 02/24/2009 6:26 AM
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jsloan 02/24/2009 9:20 AM
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[citation]God, intel noob always has to ruin the show. My dog can run faster then yours!! Idiot[/citation]

TIMMY!

justjc 02/24/2009 10:33 AM
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@joeman42: There is one good reason why both AMD and Intel launches the business chips first. They can ask a lot more for their Opterons and Xeons. Expect it to take from 3 to 6 months, after the business optimized are launched, for the fabs to be ready for a desktop release.

zedx 02/24/2009 2:11 PM
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Hope they make the Bulldozer a 'bit' earlier too..

shadow703793 02/24/2009 3:01 PM
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Well done! Btw, didn't Intel release a hexacore(Xeon 7400?)?

Antilycus 02/24/2009 7:16 PM
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AMD just needs to completely kill the competition (intel). How about a true 48 core processor with hyper threading... INTEL could never keep up as they cant fit it onto the dye.... work it!

aracheb 02/24/2009 7:17 PM
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zedx :
Hope they make the Bulldozer a 'bit' earlier too..



only the name give me chills..

sontan 02/24/2009 8:33 PM
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it will probably be a power hungry beast.

Pei-chen 02/24/2009 10:24 PM
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Six cores and 6 MB of L3 cache? I think Intel already proven the bigger the L3 cache, the better it is for server.

ProDigit80 02/24/2009 11:46 PM
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what's wrong with this page?
I see 2 monitor pictures!

cichy69 02/25/2009 10:06 AM
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@ProDigit80

those are two different pictures.. for two processors

AMD_Phenom 02/25/2009 6:16 PM
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Check out Istanbul demo videos here: http://links.amd.com/IstanbulUpgrade & http://links.amd.com/IstanbulDemo

Images of the demos can be seen here: http://links.amd.com/Images

Redraider89 02/26/2009 4:42 PM
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"it will probably be a power hungry beast."

Didn't you read the article is specifically says:

"all within customary Opteron power and thermal envelopes."

READ! instead of jumping to negative and WRONG conclusions.

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