Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 Server Equipped with a Single UltraSPARC T2 Processor Claims Two World Records in Processor Performance for SPEC CPU2006

(As of Tuesday, 09 October 2007)

Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server, based on the innovative UltraSPARC T2 processor, achieved world record integer and floating point performance throughput with the highest ever per-chip results on the SPEC CPU2006 benchmark, outperforming the latest 4.7GHz POWER6 processor from IBM by up to 29 percent and the latest quad core Intel Xeon x5365 3GHz processor by up to 61 percent.

The SPEC CPU2006 benchmark exercises a computer's processor, memory architecture, and compilers on a variety of real-world compute intensive workloads and consists of two benchmark suites. One suite measures and compares compute-intensive integer performance and the other measures and compares floating-point performance. For each of these suites, two metrics are collected: One measures how fast the computer completes a single task and the other measures how many tasks a computer can accomplish in a certain amount of time (the throughput).

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• These results demonstrate that the UltraSPARC T2 processor provides more computing capacity than any other chip on the market.
• The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server, equipped with the 1.4GHz UltraSPARC T2 processor achieved world record integer and floating point throughput performance on the SPEC CPU2006 benchmark.
• On the integer tests, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server delivered 29% higher performance than the 4.7GHz dual core POWER6-based IBM System p570 server and 28% more performance that the 3GHz quad-core Intel Xeon-based HP Proliant DL360 G5 server.
• On the floating point tests, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server delivered 7% higher performance than the 4.7GHz dual core IBM POWER6-based IBM System p570 server and 61% more performance that the 3GHz quad core Intel Xeon-based HP Proliant DL360 G5 server.
• These results demonstrate that the UltraSPARC T2 processor provides more computing capacity than any other chip on the market.

• Integer benchmark results
• Floating point benchmark results

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Competitive data obtained from http://www.spec.org as of the date located next to the respective claim. See the Website for latest results. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server (1xUltraSPARC T2 1.4GHz) (1 chip, 8 cores, 64 threads) 78.5. SPECint_rate2006, 62.3 SPECfp_rate2006. Competitive results from www.spec.org as of October 8, 2007. IBM System p570 (4.7GHz POWER6 processor)4.7GHz (1 chip, 2 cores, 4 threads) 60.9. SPECint_rate2006, 58.0 SPECfp_rate2006. HP Proliant DL360 G5 (3.0 GHz, Intel Xeon processor X5365) (1 chip, 4 cores, 4 threads) 61.3 SPECint_rate2006, 38.8 SPECfp_rate2006.