AMD has tipped its hand to unveil the world’s first demonstration of the six core Opteron currently known as Istanbul.
Positioned to serve the 2P+ SMP market, the Istanbul is a 45nm design inspired by the process used to make today’s Shanghai Opteron. It is expected that Istanbul-based parts will debut with the following specifications:
- 2000-2600MHz
- 6MB L3 cache
- 1000MHz HT link
- 95-130W TDP
- Registered/ECC DDR2 support
- ~300mm² core
- Socket F interface
The whole shebang is clearly a competitor to Intel’s sexa-core Dunnington which made its debut late last year. It’s also refreshing to see AMD increasing computational density at a time when Intel is running away with octo-core Nehalems.
We’ll revisit this post with official specifications and a video as we receive them.
UPDATE @ 2/20/09, 9:58 AM:
The Tech Report has stepped up to deliver more details about the test. They were on hand at AMD’s Austin, TX campus for the demonstration and were able to see these new Opterons in action in several different configurations.
AMD showed us several demonstrations of Istanbul silicon in action. The first was a simple showing of Task Manager on the Windows Server 2008 desktop, in which the utility showed activity indicators for each of the 24 cores in a quad-socket system.
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