xeon-x5550-2.66ghz-1cpu-8cores
Intel Xeon with a HP Z600


xeon-x5550-2.66ghz-1cpu-8cores: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon X5550 @ 2.66GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: HP 0B54h, Chipset: Intel 5520 I/O + ICH10R, Memory: 12288MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ VERTEX2 + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARX-00P, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon X300/X550/X1050 256MB, Audio: Realtek ALC262, Monitor: DELL 1708FP, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit PCIe

	OS: Debian 8.3, Kernel: 4.3.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024

Xeon X5570 2.93ghz: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon X5570 @ 2.93GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: HP 0B54h, Chipset: Intel 5520 I/O + ICH10R, Memory: 12288MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ VERTEX2 + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARX-00P, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon X300/X550/X1050 256MB, Audio: Realtek ALC262, Monitor: DELL 1708FP, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit PCIe

	OS: Debian 8.3, Kernel: 4.5.0-rc3+ (x86_64) 20160211, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024

2x Xeon X5570 2.93ghz: 

	Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon X5570 @ 2.93GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: HP 0B54h, Chipset: Intel 5520 I/O + ICH10R, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ VERTEX2 + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARX-00P, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon X300/X550/X1050 256MB, Audio: Realtek ALC262, Monitor: DELL 1708FP, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit PCIe

	OS: Debian 8.3, Kernel: 4.5.0-rc3+ (x86_64) 20160211, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
xeon-x5550-2.66ghz-1cpu-8cores . 4003 |==================
Xeon X5570 2.93ghz ............. 4362 |====================
2x Xeon X5570 2.93ghz .......... 8705 |========================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: Traditional DES
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
xeon-x5550-2.66ghz-1cpu-8cores . 6812667  |=================
Xeon X5570 2.93ghz ............. 7431000  |==================
2x Xeon X5570 2.93ghz .......... 14806667 |====================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: MD5
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
xeon-x5550-2.66ghz-1cpu-8cores . 55075  |=================
Xeon X5570 2.93ghz ............. 60091  |===================
2x Xeon X5570 2.93ghz .......... 119943 |======================================


VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.3.0
vpxenc
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
xeon-x5550-2.66ghz-1cpu-8cores . 50.99 |==============================
Xeon X5570 2.93ghz ............. 54.32 |================================
2x Xeon X5570 2.93ghz .......... 66.20 |=======================================


x264 2015-11-02
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
xeon-x5550-2.66ghz-1cpu-8cores . 111.92 |====================
Xeon X5570 2.93ghz ............. 119.93 |=====================
2x Xeon X5570 2.93ghz .......... 217.42 |======================================


Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
xeon-x5550-2.66ghz-1cpu-8cores . 39.07 |=======================================
Xeon X5570 2.93ghz ............. 35.92 |====================================
2x Xeon X5570 2.93ghz .......... 28.67 |=============================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
xeon-x5550-2.66ghz-1cpu-8cores . 174.26 |======================================
Xeon X5570 2.93ghz ............. 160.75 |===================================
2x Xeon X5570 2.93ghz .......... 85.97  |===================


Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
xeon-x5550-2.66ghz-1cpu-8cores . 13.31 |=======================================
Xeon X5570 2.93ghz ............. 12.40 |====================================
2x Xeon X5570 2.93ghz .......... 6.41  |===================


Gzip Compression
2GB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
xeon-x5550-2.66ghz-1cpu-8cores . 17.19 |=======================================
Xeon X5570 2.93ghz ............. 15.70 |====================================
2x Xeon X5570 2.93ghz .......... 15.69 |====================================


OpenSSL 1.0.1g
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
xeon-x5550-2.66ghz-1cpu-8cores . 276.77 |=================
Xeon X5570 2.93ghz ............. 301.30 |===================
2x Xeon X5570 2.93ghz .......... 602.47 |======================================