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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	Partition Size	rPerf*	CPW**
POWER7	4	24	96	3.70	24	273.51	149,100
POWER7	8	48	192	3.70	24	547.02	288,500
POWER7	12	72	288	3.70	24	820.53
POWER7	16	96	384	3.70	24	1,094.04
POWER7	20	120	480	3.70	24	1,367.55
POWER7	24	144	576	3.70	24	1,641.06
POWER7	28	168	672	3.70	24	1,914.57
POWER7	32	192	768	3.70	24	2,188.08
POWER7	4	32	128	4.00	32	372.27	204,300
POWER7	8	64	256	4.00	32	744.54	399,200
POWER7	12	96	384	4.00	32	1,116.81
POWER7	16	128	512	4.00	32	1,489.08
POWER7	20	160	640	4.00	32	1,861.35
POWER7	24	192	768	4.00	32	2,233.62
POWER7	28	224	896	4.00	32	2,605.89
POWER7	32	256	1,024	4.00	32	2,978.16
POWER7	6	24	96	4.25	16	347.36	162,100
POWER7	8	32	128	4.25	16	463.14	218,400
POWER7	12	48	192	4.25	16	694.71
POWER7	16	64	256	4.25	16	926.28
POWER7	20	80	320	4.25	16	1,157.85
POWER7	24	96	384	4.25	16	1,389.42
POWER7	28	112	448	4.25	16	1,620.99
POWER7	32	128	512	4.25	16	1,852.56
POWER7	16	64	256	4.25	64	777.09
POWER7	16	128	512	4.00	64	1,406.36
POWER7	32	128	512	4.25	64	1,554.18
POWER7	32	256	1,024	4.00	64	2,812.72

SPEC CPU2006 performance

Technology	Chips	Cores	Threads	GHz	OS	SPEC int_rate	SPEC fp_rate
POWER7	4	32	128	4.00	AIX 7.1	1,440
POWER7	32	256	1,024	4.00	AIX 7.1	11,200	10,500
POWER7	32	256	1,024	4.00	SLES 11 SP1	10,900	10,400
POWER7	32	256	1,024	4.00	RHEL 6	11,300	10,500
POWER7	32	128	512	4.25	AIX 7.1	6,150	5,870
POWER7	32	128	512	4.25	SLES 11 SP1	6,130	5,860

SPECjbb2005 performance

Technology	Chips	Cores	Threads	GHz	OS	BOPS	BOPS/jvm	JVM
POWER7	32	256	1,024	4.00	AIX 7.1	21,058,767	82,261	256
POWER7	32	256	1,024	4.00	SLES 11 SP1	20,499,538	80,076	256

LINPACK performance

Technology	Chips	Cores	Threads	GHz	OS	HPC Gflops
Technology	Chips	Cores	Threads	GHz	OS	HPC	Peak
POWER7	32	256	256	4.00	AIX 7.1	6,653	8,487
POWER7	32	256	256	4.00	SLES 11 SP1	6,830	8,487
POWER7	32	256	256	4.00	RHEL	6,902	8,487
POWER7	32	128	128	4.25	AIX 7.1	3,676	4,358
POWER7	32	128	128	4.25	SLES 11 SP1	3,784	4,358

SAP performance - SD 2-Tier

Technology	Chips	Cores	Threads	GHz	OS	Number of Users	Database	ERP Release	Cert. Number
POWER7	16	128	512	4.00	AIX 7.1	70,032	DB2 9.7	6.0 EHP4 (Unicode)	2010042
POWER7	32	256	1,024	4.00	AIX 7.1	126,063	DB2 9.7	6.0 EHP4 (Unicode)	2010046

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)