# AMD Opteron

5 Hacker News commenters recommended AMD Opteron and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** AMD's 64-bit server CPU that people say ran Linux servers faster and cheaper than Sun's SPARC machines, often by large margins.

## Why people recommend it

- Faster than Sun UltraSPARC servers (4 comments): "the 64-bit AMD Opteron servers with Linux offered an alternative that crushed any kind of SPARC CPU with Solaris" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743295)) "accelerated dramatically the work in comparison with the traditional Sun servers" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790003)) "Opteron was immensely better than the UltraSPARC CPUs used in the Sun servers." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166280))
- Strong performance on server workloads (2 comments): "It destroyed Intel's CPUs in many measure of performance for server workloads." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165087)) "the speedup was almost 10x" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235197))
- Replaced Sun servers entirely (2 comments): "the 64-bit AMD Opteron servers with Linux offered an alternative that crushed any kind of SPARC CPU with Solaris" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743295)) "We bought them immediately and never bought another Sun." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49796104))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [AMD EPYC](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amd-epyc.md): 26 recommend
- [Intel Xeon](https://hackerapproved.com/p/intel-xeon.md): 14 recommend
- [Nvidia Vera CPU](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-vera-cpu.md): 11 recommend
- [Ampere CPU](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ampere.md): 8 recommend
- [AMD EPYC Turin](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amd-epyc-turin.md): 8 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.amd.com/en.html)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "AMD Opteron", https://hackerapproved.com/p/amd-opteron/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).