Re:IBM Opens Power Microprocessor Architecture
by frozenport on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @10:02PM
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Does anybody know the architectural advantages that POWER has over x86?
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Re:IBM Opens Power Microprocessor Architecture
by wmf on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @11:35PM
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Depending on what you mean by architecture, there probably aren't many. Maybe reliability and decimal floating point. But IBM's Power server processors tend to be bigger and higher performance than Intel's; e.g. Power8 has four times the threads, four times the cache, and twice the memory bandwidth as Ivy Bridge-EP.