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IBM Power processor performance index vs intel processor performance?

  • 1.  IBM Power processor performance index vs intel processor performance?

    Posted Sat January 11, 2014 08:18 PM

    Originally posted by: srangama


    Hi everyone,


    Basically, I want to know performance indexes of IBM Power processors (POWER5, POWER5+, POWER6, POWER6+ etc.) with compared to Intel Xeon E5 series processors. Can someone kindly provide me a document or a link or explain how to calculate those comparisons?

    Thank you in advanced.
     



  • 2.  Re: IBM Power processor performance index vs intel processor performance?

    Posted Tue January 14, 2014 03:17 PM

    Originally posted by: GarlandJoseph


    http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/reports/system_perf.html

    find the same bench mark tests for intel processors

    I am not sure it is as simple as comparing numbers without consider the type of processing.  I



  • 3.  Re: IBM Power processor performance index vs intel processor performance?

    Posted Fri January 24, 2014 10:56 AM

    Originally posted by: tyw


    Not long ago, I did a non-scientific comparison on the hardware I have on hand for a piece of work I had to do.  The job was to unzip files, scan cetain strings, then zip back.  It was in single thread mode.

     

    # of files         154 134 155 155 140 154
    # of GB, gz         9 8.3 7.8 10.4 7.8 9.5
    # of GB         104.1 85.7 92.6 163.3 182.6 307.6
    machines CPU speed DASD FC 2012-10 2012-11 2012-12 2013-01 2013-02 2013-03

    machine1

    		Xeon E7-2850 2 GHz v7000, R5 shared   8h:38m 9h:33m 18h:9m 21h:10m 37h:10m
    machine2 P5 1.5 GHz int.SCSI none 4h:54m 4h 4h:6m 9h:33m 7h:45m 11h:58m
    machine3 P7 3.3 GHz 8800, R10 dedicated 1h:52m 1h:35m 1h:40m 2h:47m 2h:54m 4h:51m