Advanced Micro Devices launched a low-power modification of its six-core Opteron server chip, which is codenamed Istanbul.

The Opteron 2419 EE represent up to 40 watts of power, which roughly equals the lowest power strained by AMD's presented quad-core line of Opteron server chips codenamed Shanghai. The new-fangled chip offer 30 percent supplementary performance balance to quad-core Opterons in the similar power band, the corporation said.

The superior performance could assist slash energy costs as well as merge servers in data centers, AMD assumed.

The processor runs at a rate of about 2.0GHz as well as contains 512KB of L2 cache for each core, with 6MB of universal L3 cache.

The CPU is intended for server deployments in which power utilization trumps rare performance, AMD whispered in a press release. Like further Opteron chips, the new-fangled processor has a power administration trait called AMD-P, which can lessen the processing speed of cores to plunge power utilization, or check the power drained by a system through the BIOS. A chip also contain AMD-V, a hardware addition that assist the processor improved utilize hardware resources in virtualized surroundings.

The processor is priced at US$989 as well as begins shipping on Monday. AMD also present six-core processors at the 55-watt as well as 75-watt power bands. AMD contend in the server processor break with Intel, which suggest Xeon chips.