Specifications

Chapter 1. General description 13
The processor card houses the two or four POWER7 SCMs and the system memory. The
Power 780 processor card offers the following features:
򐂰 Feature #5003 offers two 8-core POWER7 SCMs with 32 MB of L3 cache (16 cores per
processor card are activated in MaxCore mode and each core with 4 MB of L3 cache) at
3.92 GHz.
򐂰 Feature #5003 also offers two 8-core POWER7 SCMs with 32 MB of L3 cache (8 cores
per processor card are activated in TurboCore mode and each core is able to use 8 MB of
L3 cache) at 4.14 GHz.
򐂰 Feature #EP24 offers four 6-core POWER7 SCMs with 24 MB of L3 cache (24 cores per
processor card, each core with 4 MB of L3 cache) at 3.44 GHz.
Figure 1-3 shows the top view of the Power 770 and Power 780 system having two SCMs
installed. The two POWER7 SCMs and the system memory reside on a single processor card
feature.
Figure 1-3 Top view of Power 770 and Power 780 system with two SCMs
POWER7
Fans
PCIe Slot
PCIe Slot
PCIe Slot
PCIe Slot
PCIe Slot
PCIe Slot
Memory
Memory
Memory
TPMD
POWER7