Is anyone else just completely flabbergasted at the performance levels we're seeing at the top end of these benchmarks? 880k requests per second, with each requ

Is anyone else just completely flabbergasted at the performance levels we're seeing at the top end of these benchmarks? 880k requests per second, with each request handling a database query? 7 million requests per second without database access? All on a single 16 core server? I don't even know what to think anymore.