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POWER7® means high performance, high capacity, and near linear scaling. The benchmark and performance data below demonstrate how IBM solutions can be optimized for a wide variety of workloads, each one providing you with performance you can count on.

Multiuser performance
Technology Chips Cores Threads GHz rPerf* CPW**
POWER7 1 4 16 3.0 45.13 21,100
POWER7 1 8 32 3.0 81.24 42,100
POWER7 2 16 64 3.0 154.36 76,300

SPEC CPU2006 performance
Technology Chips Cores Threads GHz OS SPECint_rate SPECfp_rate
POWER7 2 16 64 3.0 AIX 6.1 520 434
POWER7 2 16 64 3.0 SLES 11 SP1 505 415
POWER7 2 16 64 3.0 RHEL 6 521 455

SPECjbb2005 performance
Technology Chips Cores Threads GHz OS BOPS BOPS/jvm JVM
POWER7 2 16 64 3.0 AIX 6.1 1,119,946 69,997 16
POWER7 2 16 64 3.0 SLES 11 SP1 1,103,231 68,952 16

LINPACK performance
Technology Chips Cores Threads GHz OS             HPC Gflops
HPC Peak
POWER7 2 16 16 3.00 AIX 6.1 369.6 422.9
POWER7 2 16 16 3.00 RHEL 6 375.7 422.9

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For details on these and all other benchmarks published by IBM Power Systems, see the Power Systems Performance Report.

For details on SPEC results, see http://www.spec.org/ (link resides outside of ibm.com)
For details on TPC results, see http://www.tpc.org/ (link resides outside of ibm.com)
For details on SAP benchmarks, see http://www.sap.com/benchmark (link resides outside of ibm.com)

The benchmarks and values shown herein were derived using particular, well configured, development-level computer systems. Actual system performance may vary and is dependent upon many factors including system hardware configuration and software design and configuration. Additional information about these benchmarks and associated trademarks.

* rPerf (Relative Performance)

** CPW (Commercial Processing Workload)

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