AMD Opteron(TM) 6200 Series Processor Family Wins the Linley Group Analysts' Choice Award for Best Server Processor

SUNNYVALE, CA, Jan 23 (MARKET WIRE) --
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that its AMD Opteron 6200 Series
processor family, based on the new "Bulldozer" architecture, was chosen
as the winner of The Linley Group's first annual Analysts' Choice Awards.
The awards recognize the top processor products of 2011 in several major
categories including embedded, mobile, PC, server, design IP and related
technology. To choose each winner, the Linley Group's team of technology
analysts focused on merits of the leading products that began shipping
between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2011.

"Our analysts are deeply familiar with processor products and technology,
having conducted extensive research in order to deliver the firm's
popular publications and reports," said Linley Gwennap, founder and
principal analyst at The Linley Group. "We chose the winners on the basis
of their performance, power, features and cost as appropriate for their
target applications."

This latest award for the AMD Opteron processor comes on the heels of the
recent Technology of the Year honors from InfoWorld. AMD Opteron 6200
Series processors along with the Dell PowerEdge R715, which is based on
the latest AMD Opteron processors, have both received 2012 Technology of
Year awards from the publication.

"The AMD Opteron 6200 Series processor rose to the top of our list of
nominees due to its leading performance for high-volume, dual-socket
servers," said Bob Wheeler, senior analyst at The Linley Group. "Reported
SPEC_rate2006 baseline scores show the AMD Opteron processor Model 6282
SE delivers about 20 percent greater integer performance(i) and nearly 40
percent greater floating-point performance(ii) than comparable processors
from the competition and costs about 40 percent less(iii)."

"We are honored to receive this prestigious award from The Linley Group,"
said Pat Patla, corporate vice president for AMD's Server Business.
"Since we launched the new AMD Opteron processor a little more than 2
months ago, the industry has rallied around the combination of innovation
and price-performance advantage AMD is delivering to Cloud, HPC and
enterprise customers. It is clear the new AMD Opteron processor with our
'Bulldozer' technology is a winner."

Other recent Awards and Top Performance ratings for the AMD Opteron 6200
Series processor-based servers include:

-- IT PRO Editor's Choice for the Dell PowerEdge R815
-- Top TPC-C 2-Socket score on the HP ProLiant DL385 G7(iv)
-- Top 2-node blade VMmark 2.1 on the HP ProLiant BL685c G7; largest ever
published result on a blade server(v)

About AMD
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leading the next era of vivid digital experiences with its groundbreaking
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computing devices. AMD's server computing products are focused on driving
industry-leading cloud computing and virtualization environments. AMD's
superior graphics technologies are found in a variety of solutions
ranging from game consoles, PCs to supercomputers. For more information,
visit http://www.amd.com.

Cautionary Statement

AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, AMD Opteron and combinations thereof, are
trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Other names are for
informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

(i) SPEC and SPECint are registered trademarks of the Standard
Performance Evaluation Corporation. The results stated above reflect
results published on http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/ as of 11/15/11.
The comparison presented above is based on the best performing two-socket
servers using AMD Opteron(TM) processor Model 6282 SE and Intel Xeon
processor Model X5690, operating at each processor's default frequency.
For the latest SPECint(R)_rate2006 results, visit
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/. SPECint(R)_rate2006 score of 526
using 2 x AMD Opteron(TM) processor Model 6282 SE:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2011q4/cpu2006-20111020-18700.html.
SPECint(R)_rate2006 score of 421 using 2 x Intel Xeon X5690:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2011q3/cpu2006-20110801-17810.html.
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(ii) SPEC and SPECfp are registered trademarks of the Standard
Performance Evaluation Corporation. The results for AMD Opteron(TM)
processor Model 6282 SE is based upon data submitted to Standard
Performance Evaluation Corporation as of November 7, 2011. The other
result reflects results published on http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results
as of November 7, 2011. The comparison presented above is based on the
best performing two-socket servers using AMD Opteron(TM) processor Model
6282 SE and Intel Xeon processor Model X5690 operating at each
processor's default frequency. For the latest SPECfp_rate2006 results,
visit http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results. SPECfp(R)_rate2006 score =
383, 2 x AMD Opteron(TM) processors Model 6282 SE in Supermicro A+ Server
1022-URF server, 128GB (16 x 8GB DDR3-1333) memory, Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6.1, x86 Open64 4.2.5.2 Compiler Suite, SPECfp(R)_rate2006 score =
274, 2 x Intel Xeon processors Model X5690 in Cisco UCS B200 M2 server,
48 GB (12 x 4 GB 2Rx4 PC3L-10600R-9, ECC) memory, SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server 11 SP1, Intel C++ Compiler XE v.12.0.1.116 SVR-82

(iii) Pricing claim based on 1KU pricing of AMD Opteron 6282 SE processor
($1,019) vs. Intel Xeon processor Model X5690 ($1663)

(iv) Based on results published by the Transaction Processing Performance
Council as of November 15, 2011, an AMD Opteron(TM) processor-based
server achieved the highest TPC-C performance score of any 2P server.
1,207,982 tpmC using 2 x AMD Opteron(TM) processors Model 6282 SE in HP
ProLiant DL385 G7 server, 512GB memory, Microsoft(R) Windows Server(R)
2008 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition, Microsoft(R) SQL Server(R) 2005
Enterprise x64 Edition SP3.
http://www.tpc.org/results/individual_results/HP/HP_ProLiant_DL385G7_TPCC_111114
01_es.pdf.
For the latest TPC-C results, visit www.tpc.org. TPC Benchmark and TPC-C
are trademarks of the Transaction Processing Performance Council. SVR-105

(v) Highest VMmark score for blade servers using 2 Host configuration as
of November, 2011, with the BL685c G7 system
http://www.vmware.com/a/assets/vmmark/pdf/2011-11-29-HP-BL685cG7.pdf.
VMware(R) VMmark(R) is a product of VMware, Inc.

Contact:
Phil Hughes
AMD Public Relations
(512) 602-4797
phil.hughes@amd.com

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