IBM Power 795 server

Extraordinary scale, capacity and bandwidth for the most demanding enterprise applications

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    
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-Tier1
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
1 Central Server: Power 795

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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