Yet again, Sun UltraSPARC IV+ beats IBM POWER5+
Wednesday Dec 13, 2006
Sun Fire E6900 UltraSPARC IV+ beats the IBM p5 570 POWER5+ on SPECjbb2005. Why haven't we seen any more POWER5+ performance benchmarks on workloads like this? Might be the weaknesses we've been talking about when looking at other benchmarks?
The Sun Fire E6900 with US-IV+ maintained price/performance leadership on the SPECjbb2005 server-side Java benchmark. The 16-way Sun Fire E6900 (32 Procs Avail to Java) with 1.8GHz US-IV+ processors outperformed the 16-way IBM P5 570 (32 Procs Avail to Java) with 2.2 GHz POWER5+ processors by 5%.
SPECjbb2005 Performance Chart (ordered by performance,
bops: SPECjbb2005 Business Operations per Second, where bigger is better)
Ch/Co/Thr: Chips, Cores, Threads
| System | Processors | Performance | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ch/Co/Thr | GHz | Type | bops | JVMs | bops/JVM | ||||
| SGI Altix 4700 | 16/32/32 | 1.6 | Itanium 2 | 471,030 | 8 | 58,879 | |||
| SGI Altix 3700 | 32/32/32 | 1.6 | Itanium 2 | 457,598 | 16 | 28,600 | |||
| Fujitsu PP1500 | 32/32/32 | 2.16 | SPARC64 V | 361,920 | 8 | 45,161 | |||
| Sun Fire E6900 | 16/32/32 | 1.8 | US-IV+ | 343,512 | 16 | 21,470 | |||
| Sun Fire E6900 | 24/48/48 | 1.5 | US-IV+ | 342,578 | 12 | 28,548 | |||
| IBM p5-570 | 8/16/32 | 2.2 | POWER5+ | 326,651 | 8 | 40,831 | |||
| Fujitsu PQ480 | 32/32/32 | 1.6 | Itanium 2 | 322,719 | 8 | 40,340 | |||
| Fujitsu PQ480 | 32/32/32 | 1.6 | Itanium 2 | 295,161 | 1 | 295,161 | |||
| Sun Fire E6900 | 16/32/32 | 1.5 | US-IV+ | 248,075 | 8 | 31,009 | |||
| IBM p5-570 | 8/16/32 | 1.9 | POWER5 | 244,361 | 8 | 30,545 | |||
| Sun Fire E6900 | 16/32/32 | 1.5 | US-IV+ | 241,560 | 8 | 30,195 | |||
| IBM p5-560Q | 8/16/32 | 1.5 | POWER5+ | 226,291 | 8 | 28,286 | |||
| IBM p5-570 | 8/16/32 | 1.9 | POWER5 | 224,200 | 1 | 224,200 | |||
Complete benchmark results may be found at the SPEC benchmark website http://www.spec.org.
SPECjbb2005 (Java Business Benchmark) measures the performance of a Java implemented application tier (server-side Java). The benchmark is based on the order processing in a wholesale supplier application. The performance of the user tier and the database tier are not measured in this test. The metrics given are number of SPECjbb2005 bops (Business Operations per Second) and SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM (bops per JVM instance).
Results Summary
| Certified Results | |||
| Performance: | 343,512 SPECjbb2005 bops | ||
| 24,470 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM | |||
| Reference Date: | December 6, 2006 | ||
| Systems: | Sun Fire E6900 | ||
| Total # Processors: | 16 | ||
| Processor/GHz: | US-IV+ 1.8 GHz | ||
| Operating System: | Solaris 10 | ||
| JVM: | Java HotSpot(TM) 32-Bit, Version 1.6.0 | ||
Disclosure Statement:
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SPECjbb2005 Sun Fire E6900 (16-way, 16 chips, 32 cores, 1.8 GHz) 343,512
SPECjbb2005 bops, 21,470 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM submitted for review, IBM
eServer p5 570 (8 chips, 16 cores, 16-way, 2.2 GHz) 326,651 SPECjbb2005 bops,
20,415 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. SPEC, SPECjbb reg tm of Standard Performance
Evaluation Corporation.
Results as of 12/06/06 on www.spec.org. Prices based on publicly documented list prices. SPECjbb2005 Benchmark Reports
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