IBM advertise their "big iron" systems in Transactions Per Second. A measure of the total system performance; IPC, Buses, caches, etc. They get shit stomped in

IBM advertise their "big iron" systems in Transactions Per Second. A measure of the total system performance; IPC, Buses, caches, etc. They get shit stomped in a traditional CPU bound benchmark. Remember Apples marketing using "The Megahertz Myth" in their later PPC days because of how one sided benchmarks (and clock speeds) were getting? It's a fine arch with plenty to offer but a 1:1 comparison with an x86 desktop is like saying that a 50 ton bulldozer just got wrecked in a race with a Bugatti Veron.