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The Power of POWER5
Submitted by punkytse on October 19, 2004 - 13:27.
Processors
SPEC recently published the latest integer and floating point benchmark for IBM POWER5. The 1.9G chip scores 1398 and 2576 in SPECint2000 and SPECfp2000 respectively.
The integer performance is now on par with 3.4G Xeon and Itanium 2, while in floating point is now leading among all processors in the market.
In RISC market, IBM has been leading for a few years with POWER4. By introducing POWER5, IBM developed even a larger gap to other RISC CPU likes PA-RISC, UltraSPARC IV and Alpha. Surprisingly, there is one come closer to the competition, it is SPARC64 V from Fujitsu.
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Paul DeMone of RCW recently p
Paul DeMone of RCW recently published an
article about the two leading high-end server chips: IBM POWER5 and Intel's Montecito.
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