Find below a short overview to the already excisting benchmark-results for the new announced SPARC servers T5 and M5.
Recent Benchmark Results -- TPC and SPEC
World Record Single System Result
TPC-C SPARC T5-8 with Oracle Database 11g
World Record
SPECjEnterprise2010 SPARC T5-8 ServerWorld Record 2 Socket Server Performance
SPECjbb2013 Oracle JDK and Oracle Solaris on SPARC T5-2 ServerWorld Records
SPEC CPU2006 SPARC T5 Processor Based Systems
Recent Benchmark Results -- Applications
World Record on 8-Chip Two-Tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark
SAP SPARC T5-8 Server
World Record
SAP SPARC M5-32 ServerWorld Record Result
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne - Consolidated Online with Batch Workload SPARC T5-2 ServerWorld Record
Siebel CRM SPARC T5 ServersRecord Results
Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking SPARC T5-2Generational Improvement
Oracle Fusion Middleware SOA SPARC T5-2Generational Performance Improvement
Oracle Communications ASAP SPARC T5-1B
For more benchmark results look here: https://blogs.oracle.com/BestPerf/
Some impressive numbers as you can see, talk about them.
And by the way, the core factor of T5 and M5 is 0.5 as stated by the core factor table.