A SPARC CPU OVERVIEW: SPARC64-VII+ (M3), T3, T4, T5, M5, M10 – HOW DO THEY COMPARE?
Do you know how many SPARC CPU types does Oracle deliver currently? Not one, not two, but five. The SPARC64-VII+, the T4, T5, M5 and M10. It isn’t easy to keep track of these, hence we’ve provided an overview table to help you in that – here you are:
| CPU Type | SPARC64-VII+ (M3) | T3 | T4 | T5 | M5 | M10/SPARC64-X |
| Servers | M3000, M4000, M5000, M8000, M9000, M9000-64 |
T3-1, T3-2 T3-4 |
T4-1, T4-2 T4-4 |
T5-2, T5-4 T5-8 |
M5-32 | M10-1, M10-4, M10-4S |
| CPU Core Codename | Jupiter++ | S2 | S3 | S3 | S3 | Athena |
| CPU Clockfrequency | 2.66-3 GHz | 1.65 GHz | 2.85-3GHz | 3.6 GHZ | 3.6 GHZ | 2.8-3 GHz |
| Number of Cores per socket | 4 | 16 | 8 | 16 | 6 | 16 |
| Number of Threads per core | 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 2 |
| Minimum amount of RAM, number of sockets, and threads per Server |
8GB 1 socket 8 threads |
8GB 1 socket 128 threads |
16GB 1 socket 64 threads |
256GB 2 sockets 256 threads |
1TB 8 sockets 384 threads |
32GB 1 socket 4 threads (2 cores activated from 16) |
| Maximum amount of RAM, number of sockets and threads per Server | 4TB 64 sockets 512 threads |
128 GB 4 sockets 512 threads |
2TB 4 sockets 256 threads |
4TB 8 sockets 1024 threads |
32 TB 32 sockets 1536 threads |
32TB 64 sockets 2048 threads |
| L3 Cache | no L3$ (12MB L2$ though!) |
no L3$ | 4MB | 8MB | 48MB | no L3$ (24MB shared L2$ though!) |
| Virtualization supported | Dynamic Domains (and Zones) |
LDoms (and Zones) |
LDoms (and Zones) |
LDoms (and Zones) |
Hard Domains, LDoms (and Zones) |
LDoms (and Zones) |
| CPU architecture (ISA) | sun4u | sun4v | sun4v | sun4v | sun4v | sun4v |
| OS supported | Solaris 10, 11 | Solaris 10, 11 | Solaris 10, 11 | Solaris 10, 11 | Control Domain: S11 only. Guest Domains: Solaris 10, 11 |
Solaris 10, 11 |
| Noteworthy features | electronically separated domains | 512 threads in 2010! | First S3 based, single thread AND throughput | 1024 threads in 8 RU |
Mainframe class,
Mission critical
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Software on Chip |
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