POWER2

Realizes: server-class compute

General-purpose CPU lineage to PowerPC/POWER, POWER2 couples advanced superscalar, multi-issue pipelines and large caches in a high-frequency multi-chip module to deliver server-class compute for IBM RS/6000 and AS/400 deployments.

Examples

IBM RS/6000 990 rack tower (POWER2)

The 1993 RS/6000 990 rack tower paired 71.5 MHz POWER2 multi-chip modules with AIX to service enterprise database, scientific, and transaction workloads with SMP scaling and large memory configurations, delivering the high SPECint92/SPECfp92 numbers that reclaimed IBM's leadership in Unix servers.

INTEGER-ALU LOAD STORE BRANCH FPU-MAC high-performance rack-scale datacenter mJ

RS/6000 Model 590 SPECint95 listing

Public SPECint95 listing for the IBM RISC System/6000 Model 590 highlights POWER2 server-class throughput across RS/6000 and AS/400 platforms.

SPECint95 result 3.19 (baseline) from the published SPEC listing for IBM RISC System/6000 590 (POWER2). server-class single-node N/A