IBM Power 780 server

Modular and scalable systems for performance, availability and IT efficiency

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*1 CPW3**
POWER7 2 16 64 3.86 195.45 105,200
POWER7 4 32 128 3.86 362.7 177,400
POWER7 6 48 192 3.86 523.89 265,200
POWER7 8 64 256 3.86 685.09 343,0502
POWER7 2 16 64 3.92 197.6 106,000
POWER7 4 32 128 3.92 366.6 183,000
POWER7 6 48 92 3.92 529.6 286,500
POWER7 8 64 256 3.92 692.5 363,000
POWER7 2 8 32 4.14 115.86 57,450
POWER7 4 16 64 4.14 226.97 114,850
POWER7 6 24 96 4.14 326.24 172,450
POWER7 8 32 128 4.14 425.5 229,650
POWER7 4 24 96 3.44 253.3 138,500
POWER7 8 48 192 3.44 443.3 276,000
POWER7 12 72 288 3.44 696.6 413,000
POWER7 16 96 384 3.44 886.6 550,700
POWER7+ 4 16 64 4.42 245.6 123,500
POWER7+ 8 32 128 4.42 460.2 214,000
POWER7+ 12 48 192 4.42 638.7 326,100
POWER7+ 16 64 256 4.42 817.1 424,400
POWER7+ 4 32 128 3.72 383.8 209,500
POWER7+ 8 64 256 3.72 690.0 414,900
POWER7+ 12 96 384 3.72 1,151.5 622,300
POWER7+ 16 128 512 3.72 1,380.1 829,800
1 rPerf for 72 and 96 core configurations used two equal partitions
2 CPW is limited to 32 core partition sizes. Larger core configurations were measured with multiple partitions.
3 CPW values for the Power 780 with TurboCore enabled were measured with 8 core partitions.

SPEC CPU2006 performance (Speed)
Technology Chips Cores Threads GHz SPECint SPECfp
POWER7 2 16 16 3.86   71.5
POWER7 2 16 16 4.14 44.0  

SPEC CPU2006 performance (Throughput)
Technology Chips Cores Threads GHz OS SPECint_rate SPECfp_rate
POWER7 2 16 64 3.86 AIX 6.1 652 586
POWER7 8 64 256 3.86 AIX 6.1 2,526 2,240
POWER7 8 64 256 3.86 SLES 11 2,610 2,300
POWER7 8 64 256 3.86 RHEL 6 2,740 2,550
POWER7 8 64 256 3.92 AIX 7.1 2,770 2,640
POWER7 8 32 128 4.14 AIX 6.1 1,460 1,300
POWER7 8 32 128 4.14 SLES 11 1,470 1,310
POWER7 16 96 384 3.44 AIX 7.1 3,520 3,150
POWER7 16 96 384 3.44 SLES11SP1 3,560 3,080
POWER7+ 16 64 256 4.42 AIX 7.1 3,730 2,880
POWER7+ 16 128 512 3.72 AIX 7.1 6,100 4,160
POWER7+ 16 128 512 3.72 RHEL 6.3 6,130 4,180

SPECjbb2005 performance
Technology Chips Cores Threads GHz OS BOPS BOPS/jvm JVM
POWER7 2 16 64 3.86 AIX 6.1 1,331,641 83,228 16
POWER7 8 64 256 3.86 AIX 6.1 5,210,501 81,414 64
POWER7 8 64 256 3.86 SLES 11 5,087,469 79,492 64
POWER7 8 32 128 4.14 AIX 6.1 3,031,184 94,725 32
POWER7 8 32 128 4.14 IBM i 2,514,313 78,572 32
POWER7 8 32 128 4.14 SLES 11 2,926,261 91,446 32
POWER7 16 96 384 3.44 AIX 7.1 7,242,788 75,446 96
POWER7 16 96 384 3.44 SLES11SP1 7,080,765 73,758 96
POWER7+ 16 64 256 4.42 AIX 7.1 6,884,200 107,566 64
POWER7+ 16 128 512 3.72 AIX 7.1 12,560,858 98,132 128
POWER7+ 16 128 512 3.72 RHEL 6.3 12,305,473 96,137 128

SPECjEnterprise2010 performance
Technology Chips Cores Threads GHz OS EjOPS
POWER7 8 64 256 3.86 AIX 7.1 15,893
POWER7+ 4 16c LPAR 64 4.42 AIX 7.1 10,902

SPEC ompL2001
Technology Chips Cores Threads GHz OS Result
POWER7 8 64 256 3.86 RHEL 6 1,797,211

TPC-C performance
Technology Chips Cores Threads GHz OS tpmC $/tpmC Availability
POWER7 24 192 768 3.86 AIX 6.1 10,366,254 $1.38 10/13/10
POWER7 2 8 32 4.14 AIX 6.1 1,200,011 $0.69 10/13/10

TPC-H performance
Technology Chips Cores Threads GHz OS DB Size QphH $/QphH Availability
POWER7 8 32 128 4.14 RHEL 6 1 TB 164,747 $6.85 3/31/11
POWER7 8 32 128 4.14 AIX 7.1 3 TB 192,001 $6.37 11/30/11

LINPACK performance
Technology Chips Cores Threads GHz OS HPC Gflops    
HPC Peak
POWER7 2 16 16 3.86 AIX 6.1 445 505
POWER7 8 64 64 3.86 AIX 6.1 1,775 2,021
POWER7 8 64 64 3.86 RHEL 6 1,772 2,021
POWER7 8 32 32 4.14 AIX 6.1 944 1,061
POWER7 8 64 64 3.92 AIX 7.1 1,772 2,021
POWER7 16 96 96 3.44 AIX 7.1 2,450 2,903
POWER7 16 96 96 3.44 SLES11SP1 2,512 2,903
POWER7+ 16 64 64 4.42 AIX 7.1 2,012 2,293
POWER7+ 16 128 128 3.72 AIX 7.1 3,681 4,243
POWER7+ 16 128 128 3.72 RHEL 6.3 3,575 4,243

SAP performance - SD 2-Tier1
Technology Chips Cores Threads GHz OS Number of Benchmark Users Database ERP Release Cert. Number
POWER7 8 64 256 3.86 AIX 6.1 37,000 DB2 9.7 6.0 EHP4 (Unicode) 2010013
POWER7+ 12 96 384 3.7 AIX 7.1 57,024 DB2 10 6.0 EHP5 2012033
1 Central Server: Power 780

SAP performance - SD 3-Tier1
Technology Chips Cores Threads GHz OS Number of Benchmark Users Database ERP Release Cert. Number
POWER7+ 8 64 256 3.7 AIX 7.1 266,000 DB2 10.5 6.0 EHP5 2013010
1 Central Server: Power 780

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)

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