Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 Compared To Skylake Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 Haswell CPU tests compared to modern Skylake CPUs. Tests for a future article on Phoronix.com. Core i5 6600K: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Intel Sky Lake (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.4.0-rc2-phoronix (x86_64) 20151123, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA), Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Core i5 6500: Processor: Intel Core i5-6500 @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170M-D3H-CF, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3, Graphics: Intel Sky Lake (1050MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.4.0-rc2-phoronix (x86_64) 20151123, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA), Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Pentium G4400: Processor: Intel Pentium G4400 @ 3.30GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte H110M-A-CF, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Intel Device 1902 (1000MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.4.0-rc2-phoronix (x86_64) 20151123, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA), Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Xeon E3 1245 v5: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X11SAE-M v1.01, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Intel Device 191d (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC888-VD, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.4.0-rc2-phoronix (x86_64) 20151123, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA), Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Xeon E3-1231 v3: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte H81M-S1, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.2, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 11.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 6600K ... 214.99 |======================= Core i5 6500 .... 253.36 |=========================== Pentium G4400 ... 502.03 |===================================================== Xeon E3 1245 v5 . 189.72 |==================== Xeon E3-1231 v3 . 212.32 |====================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 6600K ... 65.52 |======================== Core i5 6500 .... 78.99 |============================= Pentium G4400 ... 145.68 |===================================================== Xeon E3 1245 v5 . 63.01 |======================= Xeon E3-1231 v3 . 82.75 |============================== FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Core i5 6600K ... 7741.58 |==================================================== Core i5 6500 .... 7137.60 |================================================ Pentium G4400 ... 6543.00 |============================================ Xeon E3 1245 v5 . 7372.18 |================================================== Xeon E3-1231 v3 . 5631.94 |====================================== x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i5 6600K ... 174.99 |============================================== Core i5 6500 .... 146.05 |====================================== Pentium G4400 ... 76.42 |==================== Xeon E3 1245 v5 . 201.79 |===================================================== Xeon E3-1231 v3 . 183.56 |================================================ Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Core i5 6600K ... 2719.10 |==================================================== Core i5 6500 .... 2434.92 |=============================================== Pentium G4400 ... 2080.60 |======================================== Xeon E3 1245 v5 . 2561.68 |================================================= Xeon E3-1231 v3 . 1965.28 |====================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 6600K ... 118.31 |======================= Core i5 6500 .... 139.96 |=========================== Pentium G4400 ... 276.98 |===================================================== Xeon E3 1245 v5 . 103.01 |==================== Xeon E3-1231 v3 . 113.73 |====================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 6600K ... 10.86 |========================================= Core i5 6500 .... 11.80 |============================================ Pentium G4400 ... 14.44 |====================================================== Xeon E3 1245 v5 . 11.39 |=========================================== Xeon E3-1231 v3 . 11.77 |============================================ FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 6600K ... 8.43 |============================= Core i5 6500 .... 9.96 |=================================== Pentium G4400 ... 15.50 |====================================================== Xeon E3 1245 v5 . 9.11 |================================ Xeon E3-1231 v3 . 10.05 |=================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i5 6600K ... 668.93 |===================================================== Core i5 6500 .... 564.90 |============================================ Pentium G4400 ... 280.80 |====================== Xeon E3 1245 v5 . 673.23 |===================================================== Xeon E3-1231 v3 . 597.03 |===============================================