A customer wants to run an Oracle application that is available for POWER8 and other competitive platforms. The Oracle application is licensed per core. Which POWER8 processor advantage provides a…

The correct answer is D. Core performance. POWER8 processing cores2 are the fastest in the industry for Enterprise Java workloads. It has 2x more performance per core than Intel E5-2697 v2 offerings and 1.77x more performance per core than Oracle T5-2 offerings…

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A customer wants to run an Oracle application that is available for POWER8 and other competitive platforms. The Oracle application is licensed per core. Which POWER8 processor advantage provides a competitive TCO advantage?

Options

AProcessor Instruction Retry
B8 cores per processor
CLevel 3 memory cache
DCore performance

How the community answered

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A
4% (3)
B
9% (6)
C
3% (2)
D
84% (56)

Explanation

POWER8 processing cores2 are the fastest in the industry for Enterprise Java workloads. It has 2x more performance per core than Intel E5-2697 v2 offerings and 1.77x more performance per core than Oracle T5-2 offerings. 950.ibm.com/events/wwe/impact/impact2014cms.nsf/download/k7e19cd561ad41ad4145c4e5005 1/$FILE/Impact2014_3407.pdf

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