14 DAY TRIAL // IBM has been recently ranked as the leader on the supercomputers dedicated market and looks like it has passed also Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium's (EEMBC) benchmark scores for the IBM PowerPC 970FX which set a new record for embedded processors tested against the consortium's TeleBench telecommunications benchmark suite.
If you don't know, the IBM PowerPC 970FX is a 64-bit processor with native 32-bit application compatibility support and comes with a Vector/SIMD facility which supports high-bandwidth data processing and algorithmic-intensive computations. The processor is on offer at a wide range of frequencies from 1 GHz to 2.2 GHz. The PowerPC 970FX was the first PowerPC processor available to OEMs with 64-bit capabilities and the first processor offered by IBM with VMX capabilities.
According to EEMBC's test results, the IBM PowerPC 970FX, clocked at 2 GHz and using the GCC auto-vectorization compiler, with optimizations for Vector/SIMD Multimedia Extension Technology, achieved a score of no less than 1058.7 Telemarks. In out-of-the-box tests, the PowerPC 970FX achieved a score of 141.8 Telemarks, an 182% improvement over a previous record-setting score for the same device obtained with a different compiler.
"High-end processors are being used in more embedded products than ever, and OEMs are looking for benchmark scores that offer a more application-specific indication of performance than traditional server benchmarks," said Markus Levy, EEMBC president. "By publishing these TeleBench scores for its PowerPC 970FX, IBM is showing its commitment to providing customers with valuable, trustworthy information on processor performance. Beyond delivering a realistic picture of how its device will perform in communications applications, the scores also represent a convincing indication of the performance advantages provided by vector processing in general."