tuesday, may 4, 2004

As soon as my friend ansley gets off his ass and returns

my call I'll be in business with a couple of these babies.

He works at AMD in Austin.  My goal is to score a couple

AMD Opteron 246 CPUs for my system, as well as collect

the $5 bucks he owes me.  Spurs rock.

I've never personally owned a system with dual processors before, so I've been researching a few bench mark tests

I plan to run.

If you've been keeping up with cpus and the opteron caught your attention, but you're unsure exactly

what all the nomenclature around them means, these figures are readable.

Scalability

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Up to 2-way

Frequency 1.4GHz

-

Model 240

Frequency 1.6GHz

-

Model 242

Frequency 1.8GHz

-

Model 244

Frequency 2.0GHz

-

Model 246

Frequency 2.2GHz

-

Model 248

EE (30W) Frequency 1.4GHz

-

Model 240 EE

HE (55W) Frequency 2.0GHz

-

Model 246 HE

Integrated DDR memory controller

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Yes

Memory controller width

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128-bit

ECC DRAM protection

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Yes

HyperTransport™ Technology

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Yes

HyperTransport Links (total/coherent)

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1-Mar

HyperTransport Link width

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16 bits x16 bits

HyperTransport bus frequency

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800MHz

AMD64

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Yes

Simultaneous 32 & 64-bit computing

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Yes

L1 Cache Size (data/instruction)

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64KB / 64KB

L2 Cache Size

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1MB

Pipeline stages (integer/floating point)

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17-Dec

L1/L2 data cache protection

-

ECC

L1/L2 instruction cache protection

-

Parity

Global History Counter Entries

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16K

L1 TLB entries (data/instruction)

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40/40

L1 associativity (data/instruction)

-

Full/Full

L2 TLB entries (data/instruction)

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512/512

L2 associativity (data/instruction)

-

4-way / 4-way

Direct Connect Architecture

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Yes

Process

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.13 micron SOI

Manufactured In

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Fab 30, Dresden Germany

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