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Performance data
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.
p260 Compute Nodes
Multiuser performance
| Technology |
Chips |
Cores |
Threads |
GHz |
rPerf* |
CPW** |
| POWER7+ |
2 |
8 |
32 |
4.08 |
115.5 |
51,400 |
| POWER7+ |
2 |
16 |
64 |
3.61 |
197.7 |
99,500 |
| POWER7+ |
2 |
16 |
64 |
4.11 |
218.5 |
110,000 |
SPEC CPU2006 performance
| Technology |
Chips |
Cores |
Threads |
GHz |
OS |
SPECint_rate |
SPECfp_rate |
| POWER7+ |
2 |
16 |
64 |
4.11 |
AIX 7.1 |
856 |
586 |
| POWER7+ |
2 |
16 |
64 |
4.11 |
SLES 11 SP2 |
825 |
562 |
SPECjbb2005 performance
| Technology |
Chips |
Cores |
Threads |
GHz |
OS |
BOPS |
BOPS/jvm |
JVM |
| POWER7+ |
2 |
16 |
64 |
4.11 |
AIX 7.1 |
1,877,581 |
117,349 |
16 |
| POWER7+ |
2 |
16 |
64 |
4.11 |
SLES 11 SP2 |
1,818,045 |
113,628 |
16 |
SPECompM2001 performance
| Technology |
Chips |
Cores |
Threads |
GHz |
OS |
Result |
| POWER7+ |
2 |
14 |
64 |
4.11 |
SLES 11 SP2 |
107,007 |
SAP performance - SD 2-Tier
| Technology |
Chips |
Cores |
Threads |
GHz |
OS |
Number of Users |
Database |
Central Server |
ERP Release |
Certificate Number |
| POWER7+ |
2 |
16 |
64 |
4.11 |
AIX 7.1 |
10,000 |
DB2 10 |
p260 |
6.0 EHP5 |
2012035 |
Oracle eBS r12 Payroll Extra Large Batch
| Technology |
Chips |
Cores |
Threads |
GHz |
OS |
Check per hr |
eBS Release |
| POWER7+ |
2 |
8 |
32 |
4.08 |
AIX 6.1 |
626,741 |
12.1.2 |
Linpack performance
| |
HPC Gflops
|
| Technology |
Chips |
Cores |
Threads |
GHz |
OS |
HPC |
Peak |
| POWER7+ |
2 |
16 |
16 |
4.11 |
AIX 7.1 |
496.0 |
555.5 |
| POWER7+ |
2 |
16 |
16 |
4.11 |
SLES 11 SP2 |
485.4 |
555.5 |
p460 Compute Nodes
SAP performance - SD 2-Tier
| Technology |
Chips |
Cores |
Threads |
GHz |
OS |
Number of Users |
Database |
Central Server |
ERP Release |
Certificate Number |
| POWER7 |
4 |
32 |
128 |
3.55 |
AIX 7.1 |
17,000 |
DB2 9.7 |
p460 |
6.0 EHP4 (Unicode) |
2012015 |
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 www.spec.org/ (link resides outside of ibm.com)
For details on TPC results, see www.tpc.org/ (link resides outside of ibm.com)
For details on SAP benchmarks, see 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)
