AMD Opteron 2356 Dual Quad-Core

news · April 15, 2008

At Phoronix we have posted a new article. A link to this from your

site's news section would be greatly appreciated.

Title: AMD Opteron 2356 Dual Quad-Core ( -at -) Phoronix

Summary: "When looking at the AMD Phenom 9500 under Linux, we had found

this processor had posed a number of issues from kernel panics to other

troubles when running Ubuntu 7.10 with the Linux 2.6.22 kernel. Once,

however, upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04 with the Linux 2.6.24 kernel these

problems had vanished and we were pleased by this native quad-core

desktop processor from AMD. Released a month prior to the first Phenom

desktop CPUs were the quad-core Opteron 2300 "Barcelona" processors. We

hadn't looked at any AMD Barcelona processors at that time, but today we

finally have our hands on two of the new AMD Opteron 2356

server/workstation processors. The Opteron 2356 CPUs come clocked at

2.30GHz, and is a revision B3 Opteron meaning that it has a proper fix

for the TLB erratum -- this model was introduced only earlier this

month. We have benchmarked the new Opteron 2356 in both single and dual

CPU configurations and have compared the results -- under Linux -- to

two of Intel's quad-core Xeon processors."

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