Xeon E3-1280 v5 Skylake CPU Core Scaling Benchmarks by Michael Larabel, enjoy! Thanks to MSI for processor access. The enabled core count and Hyper Threading state were controlled via the UEFI/BIOS. 1 Core: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-7-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.1, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160222, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 2 Cores: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-7-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.1, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160222, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 3 Cores: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (3 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-7-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.1, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160222, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 4 Cores: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-7-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.1, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160222, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 4 Cores + HT: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-7-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.1, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160222, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 CLOMP 3.3 Static OMP Speedup Speedup > Higher Is Better 1 Core ....... 1.01 |============ 2 Cores ...... 1.83 |====================== 3 Cores ...... 2.52 |=============================== 4 Cores ...... 2.97 |==================================== 4 Cores + HT . 4.77 |========================================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better 1 Core ....... 50.12 |========= 2 Cores ...... 97.75 |================== 3 Cores ...... 141.27 |========================== 4 Cores ...... 184.48 |=================================== 4 Cores + HT . 298.91 |======================================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better 1 Core ....... 1222 |========== 2 Cores ...... 2384 |=================== 3 Cores ...... 3484 |=========================== 4 Cores ...... 4516 |=================================== 4 Cores + HT . 7430 |========================================================== TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3a Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better 1 Core ....... 49.96 |============ 2 Cores ...... 95.30 |======================= 3 Cores ...... 137.00 |================================= 4 Cores ...... 175.90 |=========================================== 4 Cores + HT . 229.74 |======================================================== x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 1 Core ....... 55.21 |=============== 2 Cores ...... 93.38 |========================= 3 Cores ...... 134.83 |==================================== 4 Cores ...... 158.89 |=========================================== 4 Cores + HT . 208.95 |======================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 1 Core ....... 132 |======================================= 2 Cores ...... 172 |================================================== 3 Cores ...... 190 |======================================================== 4 Cores ...... 201 |=========================================================== 4 Cores + HT . 200 |=========================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better 1 Core ....... 386.34 |======================================================== 2 Cores ...... 204.83 |============================== 3 Cores ...... 143.70 |===================== 4 Cores ...... 113.34 |================ 4 Cores + HT . 90.39 |============= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better 1 Core ....... 77.20 |========================================================= 2 Cores ...... 39.58 |============================= 3 Cores ...... 27.09 |==================== 4 Cores ...... 20.88 |=============== 4 Cores + HT . 19.66 |=============== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better 1 Core ....... 376 |=========================================================== 2 Cores ...... 193 |============================== 3 Cores ...... 132 |===================== 4 Cores ...... 102 |================ 4 Cores + HT . 71 |=========== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better 1 Core ....... 170.00 |============== 2 Cores ...... 334.03 |=========================== 3 Cores ...... 486.77 |======================================= 4 Cores ...... 631.40 |=================================================== 4 Cores + HT . 697.80 |========================================================