Core i9 7980XE vs. Core i7 8700K vs. Xeon Running pts/unpack-linux-1.1.0, pts/mrbayes-1.3.1, pts/blake2-1.2.0, pts/botan-1.2.0, pts/nero2d-1.1.0, pts/vpxenc-2.0.0, pts/x264-2.3.0, pts/povray-1.2.0, pts/encode-mp3-1.7.0, pts/espeak-1.4.0, pts/ffmpeg-2.7.0, pts/gnupg-2.4.0, pts/mencoder-1.5.0, pts/openssl-1.10.0, pts/apache-1.7.0, pts/sunflow-1.1.1, pts/schbench-1.0.0, pts/crafty-1.4.0, pts/encode-ogg-1.5.0 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Core i9 7980XE: Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.40GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-A (1004 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8, Graphics: NV117 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20180204, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.2, Display Server: Wayland, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 17.3.3, Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Core i7 8700K: Processor: Intel Core i7-8700K @ 4.70GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z370-A (0606 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Device 3ec2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 525GB Crucial_CT525MX3 + Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 470/480 8192MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.13.0-32-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.5, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.0.7 (git-bdfd5658e7) Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 4.0.1), Vulkan: 1.0.61, Compiler: GCC 7.2.0 + LLVM 7.0.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Xeon E3-1280 v5: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0 (2.50 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TOSHIBA-RD400, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.14.0-phx-retpoline-gcc-retpo (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.5, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.4.0-devel- padoka PPA (), Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 test06comparei7i9xeon: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2630 0 @ 2.80GHz (24 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X9DRi-LN4+/X9DR3-LN4+, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5/Core, Memory: 6 x 8192 MB DDR3-1333MHz Micron, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WD10JPVX-60J + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EZEX-00B, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6144MB (135/405MHz), Audio: Creative Labs SB0400 Audigy2 Value, Network: Intel I350 Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-116-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.5, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 384.111, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 Apache Benchmark 2.4.29 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 31882.95 |============================================= Core i7 8700K ......... 30842.26 |============================================ Xeon E3-1280 v5 ....... 24475.67 |=================================== test06comparei7i9xeon . 11745.79 |================= BLAKE2 20170307 Cycles Per Byte < Lower Is Better Core i9 7980XE .. 4.32 |============================================ Core i7 8700K ... 4.57 |=============================================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 . 5.35 |======================================================= BLAKE2 20170307 Phoronix Test Suite v5.2.1 Cycles Per Byte < Lower Is Better test06comparei7i9xeon . 3.65 |================================================= Botan 2.4.0 Test: KASUMI - Encrypt MiB/s > Higher Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 90.11 |========================================== Core i7 8700K ......... 100.13 |=============================================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 ....... 87.65 |========================================= test06comparei7i9xeon . 48.17 |======================= Botan 2.4.0 Test: KASUMI - Decrypt MiB/s > Higher Is Better Core i9 7980XE . 86.88 |======================================================= Botan 2.4.0 Test: AES-256 - Encrypt MiB/s > Higher Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 3812.44 |========================================= Core i7 8700K ......... 4278.44 |============================================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 ....... 3789.78 |========================================= test06comparei7i9xeon . 1622.08 |================= Botan 2.4.0 Test: AES-256 - Decrypt MiB/s > Higher Is Better Core i9 7980XE . 3828.47 |===================================================== Botan 2.4.0 Test: Twofish - Encrypt MiB/s > Higher Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 353.12 |========================================== Core i7 8700K ......... 393.04 |=============================================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 ....... 347.84 |========================================== test06comparei7i9xeon . 172.37 |===================== Botan 2.4.0 Test: Twofish - Decrypt MiB/s > Higher Is Better Core i9 7980XE . 347.27 |====================================================== Botan 2.4.0 Test: Blowfish - Encrypt MiB/s > Higher Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 275.96 |========================================== Core i7 8700K ......... 309.91 |=============================================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 ....... 271.59 |========================================= test06comparei7i9xeon . 138.89 |===================== Botan 2.4.0 Test: Blowfish - Decrypt MiB/s > Higher Is Better Core i9 7980XE . 277.47 |====================================================== Botan 2.4.0 Test: CAST-256 - Encrypt MiB/s > Higher Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 135.56 |========================================== Core i7 8700K ......... 152.07 |=============================================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 ....... 133.37 |========================================= test06comparei7i9xeon . 71.94 |====================== Botan 2.4.0 Test: CAST-256 - Decrypt MiB/s > Higher Is Better Core i9 7980XE . 135.58 |====================================================== Botan 2.4.0 Test: KASUMI - Encrypt - Decrypt MiB/s > Higher Is Better Core i7 8700K ... 97.30 |====================================================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 . 85.37 |=============================================== Botan 2.4.0 Test: AES-256 - Encrypt - Decrypt MiB/s > Higher Is Better Core i7 8700K ... 4292.35 |==================================================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 . 3775.63 |============================================== Botan 2.4.0 Test: Twofish - Encrypt - Decrypt MiB/s > Higher Is Better Core i7 8700K ... 392.04 |===================================================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 . 344.15 |=============================================== Botan 2.4.0 Test: Blowfish - Encrypt - Decrypt MiB/s > Higher Is Better Core i7 8700K ... 310.35 |===================================================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 . 273.50 |=============================================== Botan 2.4.0 Test: CAST-256 - Encrypt - Decrypt MiB/s > Higher Is Better Core i7 8700K ... 152.07 |===================================================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 . 133.31 |============================================== Crafty 25.2 Elapsed Time Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 7868514 |========================================= Core i7 8700K ......... 8851486 |============================================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 ....... 7789214 |======================================== test06comparei7i9xeon . 4824034 |========================= eSpeak Speech Engine 1.48.04 Text-To-Speech Synthesis Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 29.47 |========================= Core i7 8700K ......... 25.28 |====================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 ....... 32.85 |============================ test06comparei7i9xeon . 56.09 |================================================ FFmpeg 3.4.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 13.66 |============================================= Core i7 8700K ......... 4.44 |=============== Xeon E3-1280 v5 ....... 6.19 |==================== test06comparei7i9xeon . 14.62 |================================================ GnuPG 1.4.22 2GB File Encryption Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 10.60 |======================= Core i7 8700K ......... 9.78 |===================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 ....... 10.88 |======================= test06comparei7i9xeon . 22.51 |================================================ LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 29.76 |============================= Core i7 8700K ......... 26.74 |========================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 ....... 30.75 |============================== test06comparei7i9xeon . 49.89 |================================================ Mencoder 1.3.0 AVI To LAVC Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 19.58 |=============================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 ....... 17.67 |============================ test06comparei7i9xeon . 30.76 |================================================ Ogg Encoding 1.3.3 WAV To Ogg Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 6.16 |============================ Core i7 8700K ......... 5.50 |========================= test06comparei7i9xeon . 10.75 |================================================ Open FMM Nero2D 2.0.2 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i9 7980XE .. 28.91 |================= Core i7 8700K ... 55.86 |================================= Xeon E3-1280 v5 . 91.60 |====================================================== OpenSSL 1.1.0f RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 4649.03 |============================================== Core i7 8700K ......... 1963.03 |=================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 ....... 1124.03 |=========== test06comparei7i9xeon . 1176.37 |============ POV-Ray 3.7.0.7 Trace Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 32.80 |============== Core i7 8700K ......... 62.37 |=========================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 ....... 107.91 |=============================================== test06comparei7i9xeon . 75.30 |================================= Schbench Message Threads: 2 - Workers Per Message Thread: 2 usec, 99.9th Latency Percentile < Lower Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 112 |======================== Core i7 8700K ......... 114 |======================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 ....... 89 |=================== test06comparei7i9xeon . 236 |================================================== Schbench Message Threads: 2 - Workers Per Message Thread: 4 usec, 99.9th Latency Percentile < Lower Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 123 |=== Core i7 8700K ......... 103 |=== Xeon E3-1280 v5 ....... 95 |=== test06comparei7i9xeon . 1730 |================================================= Schbench Message Threads: 2 - Workers Per Message Thread: 6 usec, 99.9th Latency Percentile < Lower Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 122 | Core i7 8700K ......... 15397 |================================= Xeon E3-1280 v5 ....... 22283 |================================================ test06comparei7i9xeon . 7477 |================ Schbench Message Threads: 4 - Workers Per Message Thread: 2 usec, 99.9th Latency Percentile < Lower Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 117 |=============================== Core i7 8700K ......... 103 |============================ Xeon E3-1280 v5 ....... 88 |======================== test06comparei7i9xeon . 186 |================================================== Schbench Message Threads: 4 - Workers Per Message Thread: 4 usec, 99.9th Latency Percentile < Lower Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 120 | Core i7 8700K ......... 20725 |============================================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 ....... 21536 |================================================ test06comparei7i9xeon . 8218 |================== Schbench Message Threads: 4 - Workers Per Message Thread: 6 usec, 99.9th Latency Percentile < Lower Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 123 | Core i7 8700K ......... 25632 |================================ Xeon E3-1280 v5 ....... 39019 |================================================ test06comparei7i9xeon . 14736 |================== Schbench Message Threads: 6 - Workers Per Message Thread: 2 usec, 99.9th Latency Percentile < Lower Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 114 | Core i7 8700K ......... 5750 |===================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 ....... 13205 |================================================ test06comparei7i9xeon . 639 |== Schbench Message Threads: 6 - Workers Per Message Thread: 4 usec, 99.9th Latency Percentile < Lower Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 118 | Core i7 8700K ......... 21877 |=========================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 ....... 38336 |================================================ test06comparei7i9xeon . 13765 |================= Schbench Message Threads: 6 - Workers Per Message Thread: 6 usec, 99.9th Latency Percentile < Lower Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 5797 |===== Core i7 8700K ......... 53653 |================================================ Xeon E3-1280 v5 ....... 52544 |=============================================== test06comparei7i9xeon . 20096 |================== Sunflow Rendering System 0.07.2 Global Illumination + Image Synthesis Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i9 7980XE .. 0.95 |====================== Core i7 8700K ... 1.45 |================================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 . 2.35 |======================================================= Timed MrBayes Analysis 3.1.2 Primate Phylogeny Analysis Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i9 7980XE .. 103.59 |======================== Core i7 8700K ... 159.30 |===================================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 . 226.84 |===================================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-4.15.tar.xz Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 5.68 |============================= Core i7 8700K ......... 4.92 |========================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 ....... 6.38 |================================= test06comparei7i9xeon . 9.44 |================================================= VP9 libvpx Encoding 1.7.0 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 1.16 |================================================= Core i7 8700K ......... 1.10 |============================================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 ....... 1.15 |================================================= test06comparei7i9xeon . 1.01 |=========================================== x264 2018-02-05 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i9 7980XE ........ 125.13 |=============================================== Core i7 8700K ......... 72.11 |=========================== Xeon E3-1280 v5 ....... 41.75 |================ test06comparei7i9xeon . 53.55 |====================