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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.

SPEC CPU2006 performance

Technology	Chips	Cores	Threads	GHz	OS	SPEC int_rate	SPEC fp_rate
POWER7	4	32	128	3.3	AIX 6.1	1,010	825
POWER7	4	32	128	3.3	SLES 11	1,030	839
POWER7	4	32	128	3.61	AIX 7.1	1,150	985

SPEC ompM2001 performance

Technology	Chips	Cores	Threads	GHz	OS	Result
POWER7	4	32	128	3.3	SLES 11	101,911

LINPACK performance

Technology	Chips	Cores	Threads	GHz	OS	HPC Gflops
Technology	Chips	Cores	Threads	GHz	OS	HPC	Peak
POWER7	4	32	32	3.3	AIX 6.1	819.9	931.8
POWER7	4	32	32	3.61	AIX 7.1	874.4	989.1

Stream performance

Technology	Chips	Cores	Threads	GHz	OS	MB/s
POWER7	4	32	32	3.3	AIX 6.1	121,940
POWER7	4	32	32	3.3	SLES 11	121,360

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)