The new Opterons will be Dual-Core and operate at 2.4GHz to match the Dual-Core 4800+ Athlon 64 X2.

“The Opteron solution definitely has a lot of advantages,” said Kevin Krewell, editor of The Microprocessor Report. “I would say that Paxville is still holding to Intel’s traditional infrastructure of a front-side bus and an external memory controller. While that’s good, it’s getting a bit long in the tooth. Everyone else has integrated the memory controller on-chip, a la Opteron.”

Another speed step for the Opteron.

Source: InformationWeek