Tuesday, May 22nd 2007
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IBM Unleashes The World's Fastest Processor
IBM today simultaneously launched what it claims is the fastest processor in the world and an ultra-powerful new computer server that leverages the chip's many breakthroughs in energy conservation and virtualization technology. IBM's new POWER6 chip is a 64 bit, dual-core processor with 790 million transistors running at up to 4.7GHz and 8MB of on chip L2 cache. At 4.7GHz, the dual-core POWER6 processor doubles the speed of the previous generation POWER5 while using nearly the same amount of electricity to run and cool it. This means customers can use the new processor to either increase their performance by 100 percent or cut their power consumption virtually in half. Also announced today is the IBM's new 2- to 16-core server which offers three times the performance per core of the HP Superdome machine. The new server is also the first ever to hold all four major benchmark speed records for business and technical performance.
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And before I go on: Click source link, read, click more links.
www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_perf_results.asp
www-03.ibm.com/systems/p/benchmarks/
Does Intel not like the gaming market or something? Or are Power processors simply better suited for some reason?
tweakers.net/nieuws/47607/Eerste-benchmark-van-47GHz-Power6-lekt-uit-update.html
The colorful bars is what I read, if you compare the 4.7GHz things to the 2.2 Power5+ I would say it isn't very efficient compared to its older brother. 60% faster, over twice the clockspeed. The Xeons in the list are MP's, which means they are memory starved Netburst processors. In a few months we have Tigerton which will come a lot closer to the Power6 but is a lot cheaper. I'm not impressed by the Power6.
The previous chip had apple riding their coat tails for all round performance reasons...
But now IBM can unleash the beast that will be Power. :)
Isn't this the CPU thats socket F?
Cheaper for more performance
So what if it's not as efficient or efficient enough clock per clock? It's still owning benchmarks, and doing more work.
And efficiency not only means IPC, but also performance per watt.
the title is misleading, but it will work for server procs I guess.
This isnt intended for 2-4 cpu setups...
Try a 100+! :respect: