POWER3

Realizes: HPC/server compute

A 64-bit out-of-order PowerPC architecture with multiple integer and floating-point execution units and high floating-point throughput, deployed across IBM RS/6000 and pSeries servers.

Examples

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IBM pSeries 690

A high-performance IBM pSeries 690 dual-processor server that leveraged POWER3 chips to deliver cluster-class floating-point throughput for HPC workloads.

Floating-point throughput rating: ~12.8 GFLOPS per POWER3 chip