05-17-2012
Power6 vs. Power7 hardware performance
I know I will get blasted for posting here, not know where to post this, however, I have performance question between the 2 platforms.
Not knowing the exact processors in each box, but the Power6 Platform clock speed is 4400 (?? at least what was told to me), and the Power7 clock speed is 3500. My application is performing almost at a 2x HIGHER on the Power6 4400 Clocked system over the Power7 3500 clocked system.
Would that type of clock speed really contribute to that type of performance Gain?
Of course the Versions of DB2 are different and our application version is different also.
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