The AMD Opteron X3216 was a desktop processor with 2 cores, launched in June 2017. It is part of the Opteron lineup, using the Toronto architecture with Socket FP4. Opteron X3216 has 1 MB of L2 cache and operates at 1600 MHz by default, but can boost up to 3 GHz, depending on the workload. AMD is building the Opteron X3216 on a 28 nm production process using 3,100 million transistors. The silicon die of the chip is not fabricated at AMD, but at the foundry of GlobalFoundries. The multiplier is locked on Opteron X3216, which limits its overclocking capabilities.
With a TDP of 15 W, the Opteron X3216 consumes very little energy. AMD's processor supports DDR4 memory with a dual-channel interface. The highest officially supported memory speed is 1600 MT/s, but with overclocking (and the right memory modules) you can go even higher. ECC memory is supported, too, which is an important capability for mission-critical systems, to avoid data corruption. For communication with other components in the system, Opteron X3216 uses a PCI-Express Gen 3 connection. This processor features the Radeon Rx Series 4CU integrated graphics solution.
Hardware virtualization is available on the Opteron X3216, which greatly improves virtual machine performance. Programs using Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) will run on this processor, boosting performance for calculation-heavy applications. Besides AVX, AMD is including the newer AVX2 standard, too, but not AVX-512.