1.7Ghz IBM's POWER4 SPEC benchtest and TPC-C

[Hammer]

"At 1699 SPECfp2000 Peak (1598 Base), it currently holds the top spot in the SPECfp database, with a 13% and 16% lead over the 1.15 GHz Alpha 21364 and 1 GHz Itanium II, respectively. In SPECint, IBM's new CPU ranks forth, behind the 3 GHz Pentium 4 (800 MHz FSB), the 1.8 GHz Opteron, and the 3.06 GHz Pentium 4 Xeon. "

1.7 GHz POWER4 SPEC and TPC-C Benchmark Results, click here




1.7Ghz IBM's POWER4 scored the following;
_ 1113 SPECint2000 Peak
_ 1699 SPECfp2000 Peak

[Elektro]

http://www.aceshardware.com/#65000424

[carls]

What does it cost? The CPUs it's compared to sure isn't consumer electronics...

[Alcom]

The 3 GHz Pentium 4 (800 MHz FSB) is a normal desktop CPU, the other 2 (opteron & xeon) are server CPUs...

[amigamad]

slowly ppc is getting faster i remember when clock speed was haigher than x86 chips. ;-)

[Hammer]

In addition to the news post.

SPECInt
=========================================================================================================================
Advanced Micro Devices, ASUS A7N8X Motherboard rev. 2.0, AMD AthlonXP 3200+  (512Mb PC3200 SDRAM)              Peak:1080, Base:1044
 
Advanced Micro Devices, A4800  (AMD Opteron 144, 1.8 GHz, 2Gb PC2700 SDRAM)                                    Peak:1170, Base:1095
 
Intel Corporation, Intel D875PBZ motherboard (3.0 GHz, Pentium 4 processor with HT)                            Peak:1200,  Base:1164
                                             512 MB (4 128 MB PC3200 Samsung CL3-3-3)

IBM Corporation, IBM eServer pSeries 690 Turbo (1700 MHz, 1 CPU, 16 GB RAM)                                        Peak:1113, Base:1077  

SPECFP
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Advanced Micro Devices, A4800,                                                                 Peak:1219 , Base:1122

Intel Corporation Intel, D875PBZ motherboard (3.0 GHz, Pentium 4 processor with HT Technology) Peak:1229,  Base:1213    

IBM Corporation, IBM eServer pSeries 655 (1700 MHz, 1 CPU)                                     Peak:1678,  Base:1576

Hewlett-Packard Company, hp server rx5670 (1000 MHz, Itanium 2, 12GB RAM)                      Peak:1431,  Base:1431