TG Daily - IBM releases 4.7 GHz Power6 processor
How does this processor, stack up against the Conroes in regular computer tasks, since they are used differently, if I'm not mistaken.
Built in a 65 nm process, the new processor houses 790 million transistors and runs at a clock speed of 4.7 GHz. Compared to the Power5 chip, the new version offers more than double the clock speed, but also four times the cache (8 MB). The performance characteristics were enough to launch a new System p570 19†rack server to 25 performance benchmark records “across a broad range of business and technical applications,†IBM said. In terms of bandwidth, the Power6 offers users an aggregate bandwidth of 300 GB/s – which in theory is enough to download Apple's entire iTunes catalog in about 60 seconds.
How does this processor, stack up against the Conroes in regular computer tasks, since they are used differently, if I'm not mistaken.