AMD Opteron 8220: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Opteron 8220 sales 7 February 2007 at a recommended price of $1,514. This is a Santa Rosa architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at professional systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 90 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2.8 and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket F processor with a TDP of 95 Watt. It supports DDR2 memory.
Primary details
Opteron 8220 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Server | |
| Architecture codename | Santa Rosa (2006−2007) | |
| Release date | 7 February 2007 (17 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $1,514 | of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L) |
Detailed specifications
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 2 (Dual-core) | |
| Threads | 2 | |
| Base clock speed | 2.8 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 2.8 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 128 KB (per core) | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 1 MB (per core) | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| Chip lithography | 90 nm | of 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Die size | 235 mm2 | |
| Number of transistors | 227 million | of 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X) |
| 64 bit support | + |
Compatibility
Information on Opteron 8220 compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.
| Number of CPUs in a configuration | 8 | |
| Socket | F | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 95 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Opteron 8220. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| PowerNow | + |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| AMD-V | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Opteron 8220's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR2 |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Opteron 8220.
| Integrated graphics card | N/A |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 1.0 | of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K) |
Similar processors
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Opteron 8220, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Opteron 8220 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 2 configurations using Opteron 8220 in our database.
