Benchmarking A 10-Core Tyan/IBM POWER Server For ~$300 USD
Written by Lauri Kasanen in Computers on 21 March 2019 at 12:00 PM EDT. Page 4 of 8. 106 Comments.
The Stockfish chess benchmark was another loss.
In compilation, POWER8 is performing nicer, actually performing better per core than the low-end ThreadRipper. This the more impressive due to my system using spinning rust and the others using a SSD.
C-Ray raytracing again did not go well for this older, SMT8 processor.