Power9 Systems are built for the most demanding, data-intensive, computing on earth. The new chips will have double the cores of POWER8* multiprocessors, among other game-changing features. POWER9 continues in the tradition of previous generations by delivering improved per core performance capabilities compared to its predecessor. When compared to similar POWER8 systems, POWER9 delivers 1.25-1.5X per core the performance capability, enabling clients to further reduce software spending on stacks that are licensed per core. This focus on core architecture and capabilities delivers over 2X the per-core performance over compared x86 systems across a wide range of benchmarks.

The latest addition to the POWER processor family delivers blazing speed with up to 1.5x the performance of its POWER8 predecessor. Built on OPEN standards with accelerated bandwidth and compute options, this revolutionary architecture forms the foundation for your most advanced workloads.

What POWER9 can mean for you:

Enhanced core and chip architecture for next-gen workloads

• Optimized for emerging algorithms to interpret and reason
• Superior bandwidth, scale and capacity to ingest and analyze data

Processor family with optimized silicon for a range of platforms

• Scale out for HPC and next-gen apps
• Scale up to 16 sockets to deliver the performance and capacity needed by the most-demanding enterprise workloads

Premier platform for accelerated computing with maximized bandwidth across the stack 

• Ultra-high bandwidth CPU-GPU interconnect delivers ~ 4x faster training times
• OpenCAPI interface offers open, coherent, high bandwidth communication to NICs, FPGA accelerators, and storage controllers