AMD has made available its new 12- and 16-core AMD Opteron 6300 Series server processors, code named "Warsaw." Designed for enterprise workloads, the new AMD Opteron 6300 Series processors feature the "Piledriver" core and are fully socket and software compatible with the existing AMD Opteron 6300 Series.

The new AMD Opteron 6338P (12 core) and 6370P (16 core) processors are optimized to handle the heavily virtualized workloads found in enterprise environments, including complex compute needs of data analysis, xSQL and traditional databases.

"The Opteron 6338P and 6370P processors are server CPUs optimized to deliver improved performance per-watt for virtualized private cloud deployments with less power and at lower cost points," said Suresh Gopalakrishnan, corporate vice president and general manager, Server Business Unit, AMD.

The new AMD Opteron 6338P and 6370P processors are available today through Penguin and Avnet system integrators and have been qualified for servers from Sugon and Supermicro at a starting price of $377 and $598, respectively.

Model Number	Cores	Base Frequency	Max AMD Turbo CORE frequency	TDP	Memory support
6370P	16	2.0 GHz	2.5 GHz	99W	Quad channel U/RDDR3 up to DDR3-1600; ULV and LRDIMM support
6338P	12	2.3 GHz	2.8 GHz	99W	Quad channel U/RDDR3 up to DDR3-1600; ULV and LRDIMM support

S1B Processors Coming Next month

In related news, AMD plans to launch FS1B series processors consisting of the quad-core A6-5350 (2.05GHz), A4-5150 (1.05GHz), E2-3850 (1.3GHz) and dual-core E1-2650 for sale at US$30-60 in February.

FS1B processors will mainly compete with Intel Bay Trail-D series including Pentium J2850 and Celeron J1850 and the J1750.