Conclusion Get the lowdown
Performance Real world benchmarks
Features How it compares
Our Analysis Technical breakdown
Reviews Word on the street
Competition Others to consider
Discussion Answers and opinions

Full specs

AMD Opteron 6272

2.1 GHz
16 core

older Released November, 2011

I tested my 32cores system under Linux Ubuntu 11.10 for protein folding (100% cpu utilization for several days) and its performance is less than 24cores (2p 6172) system.

Rated 60% by by T.-Luong (Feb, 2012)

Conclusion Check out the AMD Opteron 6272

Performance

Overall performance using all cores

Opteron 6272

N/A

Xeon E5-2620

N/A

Xeon X5550

N/A

Ingredients: Cinebench R10 32-bit, Passmark, GeekBench and x264 HD 4.0 (Pass 1)

Single-core Performance

Performance of an individual core

Opteron 6272

N/A

Xeon E5-2620

N/A

Xeon X5550

N/A

Ingredients: Cinebench R10 32-bit (1-core), Passmark (Single Core) and x264 HD 4.0 (Pass 2)

Cost to Run

Opteron 6272

5.0

Xeon E5-2620

5.1

Xeon X5550

5.1

Ingredients: Commercial Energy Cost

Value

Opteron 6272

N/A

Xeon E5-2620

N/A

Xeon X5550

N/A

Ingredients: Performance Per Dollar

No score yet

* We don't have enough data yet to properly rate this processor

Performance Real world tests of AMD Opteron 6272

Features Key features of the AMD Opteron 6272

clock speed

Opteron 62722.1 GHz

FX 83504 GHz

Core i7 3770K3.5 GHz

If you are running VMs with lite loads or webservers then it works just fine, but don't expect miraculous performance for floating points scientific calculations.

Opteron 6272 by T.-Luong (Feb, 2012)

L2 cache

AMD Opteron 6272

16 MB

Opteron 6272 16 MB

Intel Xeon X5550

1 MB

Xeon X5550 1 MB

Intel Core i5 3570K

1 MB

Core i5 3570K 1 MB

L3 cache

AMD Opteron 6272

16 MB

Opteron 6272 16 MB

Intel Core i5 3570K

6 MB

Core i5 3570K 6 MB

Intel Xeon X5550

8 MB

Xeon X5550 8 MB

overclocked clock speed (air)

Opteron 62722.85 GHz

Core i7 3960X4.82 GHz

Core i7 3770K4.8 GHz

overclocked clock speed (water)

Opteron 62722.4 GHz

FX 83505 GHz

Core i7 3960X4.95 GHz

Our analysis How does it stack up against its top 10 competitors

pros

Lots of l2 cache

16 MB
Instruction-set-extensions

AES, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4, SSE4a, Supplemental SSE3
Socket type

G34, G34
Many more processing cores

16
Lots of l3 cache

16 MB
More processing threads

16
Supports many CPUs in SMP configuration

4
Lots of l2 cache per core

1 MB/core

cons

Low clock speed

2.1 GHz
Isn't hyperthreaded

CPU cores will not be used to their full potential
Quite low Maximum Operating Temperature

55 °C
High typical power consumption

93.44W
Not much l3 cache per core

1 MB/core
Less recently release date

Nov, 2011
Bad overclocked clock speed (Water)

2.4 GHz
High annual commercial energy cost

100.74 $/year
High annual home energy cost

27.7 $/year

full specs

Reviews Word on the street

	Rated 86% by 1 users at amazon.com That's why its price is cheaper than an opteron 6172 (12cores 12FPUs) and op6172 consumes less power also. Rated 60% by by T.-Luong (Feb, 2012) I don't know if newer linux kernels or Windows 8 going to optimize for bulldozer/interlagos cpus, lets see. Rated 60% by by T.-Luong (Feb, 2012)