General-purpose PowerPC processors.

General-purpose PowerPC processors

IBM/Motorola

PowerPC 600 family

• 601 50 and 66 MHz
• 602 consumer products (multiplexed data/address bus)
• 603/603e/603ev notebooks, embedded devices
• 604/604e/604ev workstations and low end servers
• 620 the first 64-bit implementation

PowerPC 7xx family

• 740/750 (1997) 233–366 MHz

Motorola/Freescale

PowerPC 7xx family

• PowerPC 740 and 750, 233–366 MHz
• 745/755, 300–466 MHz

PowerPC 74xx family

• 7400/7410 350–550 MHz, uses AltiVec, a SIMD extension of the original PPC specs
• 7440/7450 micro-architecture family up to 1.5 GHz and 256 kB on-chip L2 cache and improved Altivec
• 7447/7457 micro-architecture family up to 1.83 GHz with 512 kB on-chip L2 cache
• 7448 micro-architecture family (2.0 GHz) in 90 nm with 1MB L2 cache and slightly improved AltiVec (out of order instructions).
• 8640/8641/8640D/8641D with one or two e600 cores, 1MB L2 cache

IBM

IBM POWER microprocessors

• POWER3, 64-bit, 200–450 MHz (as POWER3-II), originally the PowerPC 630. Introduced in 1998.
• POWER4, 64-bit, dual core, 1.0–1.9 GHz (as POWER4+), follows the PowerPC 2.00 ISA. Introduced in 2001.
• POWER5, 64-bit, dual core, 2 way SMT/core, 1.6–2.0 GHz, follows the PowerPC 2.01 ISA. Introduced in 2004.
• POWER5+, 64-bit, dual core, 2 way SMT/core, 1.9–2.2 GHz, follows the PowerPC 2.02 ISA. Introduced in 2005.
• POWER6, 64-bit, dual core, 2 way SMT/core, 3.6–4.7 GHz, follows the Power ISA 2.03. Introduced in 2007.
• POWER6+, 64 bit, dual core, 2 way SMT/core, 5.0 GHz, follows the Power ISA 2.05. Introduced in 2009.
• POWER7, 64-bit octo core, 4 way SMT/core, 2.4–4.25 GHz, follows the Power ISA 2.06. Introduced in 2010.
• POWER7+, 64-bit octo core, 4 way SMT/core, 3.0–5.0 GHz, follows the Power ISA 2.06. Introduced in 2012.
• POWER8, 64-bit, hex or twelve core, 8 way SMT/core, 5.0 GHz, follows the Power ISA 2.07. Introduced in 2014.
• POWER9, 64-bit, PowerNV 24 cores of 4 way SMT/core, PowerVM 12 cores of 8 way SMT/core, follows the Power ISA 3.0. Introduced in 2016.

RS64

• A10 (Cobra), 50–77 MHz, 1995, single chip processor for Series i
• A25/30 (Muskie), 125–154 MHz, 1996, multi chip, 4 way SMP for Series i
• RS64 (Apache), 64-bit, 125 MHz, 1997 for large scale SMP systems Series i and Series p
• RS64-II (Northstar), 262 MHz, 1998
• RS64-III (Pulsar, Istar), 450 MHz in 1999, 600 in 2000
• RS64-IV (Sstar), 750 MHz, multithreading, 2000

PowerPC 7xx family

• 750CL with 256 kB on die L2 cache at 400–900 MHz introduced in 2006
• 750CX/CXe with 256 kB on die L2 cache at 350–600 MHz
• 750FX with 512 kB L2 cache announced by IBM in 2001 and available early 2002 at 1 GHz
• 750GX with 1 MB L2 cache introduced by IBM in 2003

PowerPC 970 family

• 970 (2003), 64-bit, derived from POWER4, enhanced with VMX, 512 kB L2 cache, 1.4–2 GHz
• 970FX (2004), manufactured at 90 nm, 1.8–2.7 GHz
• 970GX (2006), manufactured at 90 nm, 1MB L2 cache/core, 1.2–2.5 GHz
• 970MP (2005), dual core, 1 MB L2 cache/core, 1.6–2.5 GHz

Cell

• Cell BE, 64-bit PPE-core, 2 way multithreading, VMX, 512 kB L2 cache, 8x SPE, 8x 256 kB Local Store memory, 3.2 GHz, follows the PowerPC 2.02 ISA
• Cell BE 65 nm, same as above but manufactured on a 65 nm process
• PowerXCell 8i, same as above but with enhanced double precision SPEs and support for DDR-RAM

Supercomputer

• Blue Gene/L, dual core PowerPC 440, 700 MHz, 2004
• Blue Gene/P, quad core PowerPC 450, 850 MHz, 2007
• Blue Gene/Q, 18 core PowerPC A2, 1.6 GHz, 2011

Other

• Exponential Technology x704, a BiCMOS PowerPC implementation, 410 to 533 MHz
• P.A. Semi PWRficient PA6T-1682M, a dual-core microprocessor that runs at 2 GHz