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List of PowerPC processors

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Source revisionDec 9, 2025
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The following is a list of PowerPC processors.

General-purpose PowerPC processors

IBM/Motorola

PowerPC 600 family

601 50 and 66 MHz

602 consumer products (multiplexed data/address bus)

603/603e/603ev notebooks, embedded devices

604/604e/604ev workstations and low end servers

620 the first 64-bit implementation

PowerPC 7xx family

740/750 (1997) 233–366 MHz

Motorola/Freescale

PowerPC 7xx family

PowerPC 740 and 750, 233–366 MHz

745/755, 300–466 MHz

PowerPC 74xx family

7400/7410 350–550 MHz, uses AltiVec, a SIMD extension of the original PPC specs

7440/7450 micro-architecture family up to 1.5 GHz and 256 kB on-chip L2 cache and improved Altivec

7447/7457 micro-architecture family up to 1.83 GHz with 512 kB on-chip L2 cache

7448 micro-architecture family (2.0 GHz) in 90 nm with 1MB L2 cache and slightly improved AltiVec (out of order instructions).

8640/8641/8640D/8641D with one or two e600 cores, 1MB L2 cache

IBM

IBM Power microprocessors

POWER3, 64-bit, 200–450 MHz (as POWER3-II), originally the PowerPC 630. Introduced in 1998.

POWER4, 64-bit, dual core, 1.0–1.9 GHz (as POWER4+), follows the PowerPC 2.00 ISA. Introduced in 2001.

POWER5, 64-bit, dual core, 2 way SMT/core, 1.6–2.0 GHz, follows the PowerPC 2.01 ISA. Introduced in 2004.

POWER5+, 64-bit, dual core, 2 way SMT/core, 1.9–2.2 GHz, follows the PowerPC 2.02 ISA. Introduced in 2005.

POWER6, 64-bit, dual core, 2 way SMT/core, 3.6–4.7 GHz, follows the Power ISA 2.03. Introduced in 2007.

POWER6+, 64 bit, dual core, 2 way SMT/core, 5.0 GHz, follows the Power ISA 2.05.

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