> My understanding is that it is not really useful to compare Power9 to other cpus in these types of benchmarks, that Power9 is all about computation with massi

> My understanding is that it is not really useful to compare Power9 to other cpus in these types of benchmarks, that Power9 is all about computation with massive datasets, not how fast it can zip a file. Your understanding is wrong. For instance, running Java workloads on servers is a major Power9 use case. The thing to remember, though, is that the Talos is only two four-core CPUs, for eight total. These benchmarks are comparing it to the Epyc 7742, which is a 64 core chip. Naturally the Epyc will kill it on most highly threaded benchmarks. The individual cores on Power9 are quite fast, though.