Benchmarking A 10-Core Tyan/IBM POWER Server For ~$300 USD

Written by Lauri Kasanen in Computers on 21 March 2019 at 12:00 PM EDT. Page 6 of 8. 106 Comments.
Talos II POWER9 vs. AMD / Intel HEDT Benchmarks
Talos II POWER9 vs. AMD / Intel HEDT Benchmarks
Talos II POWER9 vs. AMD / Intel HEDT Benchmarks

RSA signing performance was terrible. The version however is the same, so I wonder if the POWER optimizations there are POWER9 only.

Talos II POWER9 vs. AMD / Intel HEDT Benchmarks
Talos II POWER9 vs. AMD / Intel HEDT Benchmarks
Talos II POWER9 vs. AMD / Intel HEDT Benchmarks

Postgres results lag behind, but the chart shows it was only built at -O2 for some reason. The lack of -mcpu/-march should not be an issue, since the Ubuntu ppc64le gcc is built to target power8 minimum, but the lower optimization level certainly will hurt.


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