The core count increase (from 8 to 16) results in more than doubled throughput performance. A faster processor speed of 3.6 GHz—compared to the SPARC T4-1B’s 2.85 GHz— results in an increased single-threaded performance and an improved throughput performance. This makes the SPARC T5 processor –based servers world-class database systems and excellent compute building blocks. The SPARC T5-1B server modules are ideal platforms for consolidation and virtualization—and that includes SPARC legacy platforms.