AMD to crank dual-core Opterons to 2.4GHz

EE Times is reporting that AMD will introduce dual-core Opteron 280 and 880 processors in the third quarter of this year. The new chips will run at 2.4GHz, matching the clock speed of AMD’s fastest dual-core desktop processor, the Athlon 64 X2 4800+. Curiously, though, there’s no mention of a 2.4GHz addition to the dual-core Opteron 100 family.


With AMD releasing dual-core Opteron 100-series chips in a 939-pin package, an Opteron 180 running at 2.4GHz would look an awful lot like an Athlon 64 X2 4800+. However, the Athlon 64 X2 family has only a single non-coherent HyperTransport link, while the Opteron 100 series has three non-coherent HT links. The extra HT links aren’t necessary for desktop systems, but workstation/server chipsets like NVIDIA’s latest nForce Pro take advantage of them by plugging multiple chipset components directly into the processor rather than relying on a chipset interconnect.

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    • douglar
    • 15 years ago

    “but workstation/server chipsets like NVIDIA’s latest nForce Pro take advantage of them by plugging multiple chipset components directly into the processor rather than relying on a chipset interconnect. ”

    I didn’t think that the nForce pro required coherent links. I thought coherent links were just for CPU-CPU connections

      • UberGerbil
      • 15 years ago

      It says /[

    • Norphy
    • 15 years ago

    Ah, so /[

    • esterhasz
    • 15 years ago

    I believe that there are no 1xx 2,4 Opterons because yields are not so high for this speed grade and 2xx and 8xx bring in more money.

    • dragmor
    • 15 years ago

    They also stealth lauched the x54 2.8ghz single core parts

      • Hattig
      • 15 years ago

      AMD are on a roll.

      I think they are timing the announcement of the 2.8GHz Opterons to coincide with Intel’s discussion of their next generation cores.

        • beyoku
        • 15 years ago

        yeah, wont intel talk about that today?

      • leor
      • 15 years ago

      where? i don’t see em online . . .

      [edit] nevermind, they’re at monarch

    • Dposcorp
    • 15 years ago

    I am the first one here, and have nothing really productive so say about this.
    Well, I do wish my Dual Opteron board supported dual core, but oh well.

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