RunAbove Power8E IBM pSeries Standard vs. 2XL vs. Core i7 5960X
Against Benchmarks by Michael Larabel POWER8.


RunAbove Standard: 

	Processor: POWER8E @ 3.03GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: CHRP IBM p (emulated by qemu), Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 10GB

	OS: Fedora 19, Kernel: 3.14.17-100.fc19.ppc64p7 (ppc64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.3 20140624, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768

RunAbove 2XL: 

	Processor: POWER8E @ 3.03GHz (176 Cores), Motherboard: CHRP IBM p (emulated by qemu), Memory: 49152MB, Disk: 473GB

	OS: Fedora 19, Kernel: 3.14.17-100.fc19.ppc64p7 (ppc64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.3 20140624, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768

Intel Core i7 5960X: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 1024MB, Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Fedora 21, Kernel: 3.17.1-302.fc21.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1 20140930, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

1X-UltraSPARCT2-8C: 

	Processor: UltraSparc T2 (64 Cores), Chipset: PLX PEX 8533 32-lane 6-port, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 2 x 147GB Seagate ST914603SSUN146G, Network: Intel 82571EB Gigabit

	OS: Debian 7.8, Kernel: 3.2.0-4-sparc64-smp (sparc64), Compiler: GCC 4.6.3, File-System: ext4


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
RunAbove Standard ... 836   |====
RunAbove 2XL ........ 9033  |=========================================
Intel Core i7 5960X . 10965 |==================================================
1X-UltraSPARCT2-8C .. 1294  |======


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: Traditional DES
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
RunAbove Standard ... 2265333  |=======
RunAbove 2XL ........ 14331000 |==========================================
Intel Core i7 5960X . 16195333 |===============================================
1X-UltraSPARCT2-8C .. 2079333  |======


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: MD5
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
RunAbove Standard ... 16025  |=====
RunAbove 2XL ........ 165950 |=================================================
Intel Core i7 5960X . 143987 |===========================================
1X-UltraSPARCT2-8C .. 25450  |========


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
RunAbove Standard ... 97.86 |==================================================
Intel Core i7 5960X . 13.31 |=======


Primesieve 5.4
1e12 Prime Number Generation
Seconds < Lower Is Better
RunAbove Standard ... 685.97 |=================================================
RunAbove 2XL ........ 48.36  |===
Intel Core i7 5960X . 45.99  |===
1X-UltraSPARCT2-8C .. 350.42 |=========================


Smallpt 1.0
Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples
Seconds < Lower Is Better
RunAbove Standard ... 402 |====================================================
RunAbove 2XL ........ 17  |==
Intel Core i7 5960X . 45  |======
1X-UltraSPARCT2-8C .. 246 |================================