Power10

Power10
Power10 SCM
General information
Launched2021
Designed byIBM, OpenPower partners
Common manufacturer
Performance
Max. CPU clock rate+3.5 GHz to +4 GHz
Physical specifications
Cores
  • 15 SMT8 cores
    30 SMT4 cores
Package
  • OLGA SCM and DCM
Socket
  • 1–16
Cache
L1 cache48+32 KB per core
L2 cache2 MB per core
L3 cache120 MB per chip
Architecture and classification
Technology node7 nm
MicroarchitectureP10
Instruction setPower ISA (Power ISA v.3.1)
History
PredecessorPOWER9
SuccessorPower11

Power10 is a superscalar, multithreading, multi-core microprocessor family, based on the open source Power ISA, announced in August 2020 and available from September 2021. The processor is designed to have 15 cores available. The main features of Power10 are higher performance per watt and better memory and I/O architectures, with a focus on artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. Each Power10 core has doubled up on most functional units compared to its predecessor POWER9. Power10 is available in a range of IBM models and is supported by operating systems including Linux 5.9 and PowerVM. The branding is unusual in that its name is not capitalized like POWER9 and all other previous POWER processors.