Intel Xeon vs. AMD FX Linux Benchmarks Intelbig comparison along with some Haswell tests and AMD FX-8370 etc. Trimmed up results with quick and interesting test profiles for easy comparison. Thanks MSI. Tests by Michael Larbael for a future article on Phoronix.com of Intel Xeon Linux benchmarking. Intel Core i7-5960X: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ TRION150, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160220, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-ff360a5 2016-02-22 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 beignet 1.1.1, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160211, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Intel 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 OCZ TRION150, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160220, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.3, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-ff360a5 2016-02-22 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 beignet 1.1.1, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160211, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x1200 Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 @ 3.80GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS X99-A, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ TRION150, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160220, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-ff360a5 2016-02-22 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 beignet 1.1.1, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160211, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.50GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ TRION150 + 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160220, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.1, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-ff360a5 2016-02-22 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 beignet 1.1.1, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160211, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5 @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ TRION150, 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: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160220, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.1, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-ff360a5 2016-02-22 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 beignet 1.1.1, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160211, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ TRION150, 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: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160220, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.1, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-ff360a5 2016-02-22 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 beignet 1.1.1, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160211, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Intel Xeon E3-1235L v5: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1235L v5 @ 3.00GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ TRION150, 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: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160220, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.1, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-ff360a5 2016-02-22 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 beignet 1.1.1, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160211, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5 @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ TRION150, 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: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160220, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.1, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-ff360a5 2016-02-22 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 beignet 1.1.1, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160211, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Intel Xeon E3-1240L v5: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1240L v5 @ 3.20GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ TRION150, 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: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160220, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.1, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-ff360a5 2016-02-22 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 beignet 1.1.1, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160211, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ TRION150, 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: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160220, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.1, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-ff360a5 2016-02-22 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 beignet 1.1.1, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160211, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5 @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ TRION150, 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: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160220, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.1, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-ff360a5 2016-02-22 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 beignet 1.1.1, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160211, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ TRION150, 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: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160220, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.1, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-ff360a5 2016-02-22 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 beignet 1.1.1, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160211, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5: 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 OCZ TRION150, 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: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160220, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.1, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-ff360a5 2016-02-22 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 beignet 1.1.1, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160211, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 AMD FX-8370: Processor: AMD FX-8370 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Killer, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB SPCC Solid State, Graphics: AMD FirePro V8700 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: VE228, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160220, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.1, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-ff360a5 2016-02-22 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160211, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Intel -4460: Processor: Intel Core i5-4460 @ 3.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI H81M-E34 (MS-7817) v3.0, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WD10EZEX-00B + 1000GB External USB 3.0, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2048MB (135/405MHz), Audio: Intel 8 /C220, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-51-generic (x86_64), Desktop: LXDE 0.6.1, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 352.63, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein Loop Time < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X .... 36.44 |================================ Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 .. 33.12 |============================= Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 33.65 |============================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 37.31 |================================= Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5 .. 34.15 |============================== Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 .. 31.24 |============================ Intel Xeon E3-1235L v5 . 39.28 |=================================== Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5 .. 30.50 |=========================== Intel Xeon E3-1240L v5 . 37.08 |================================= Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 30.70 |=========================== Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5 . 30.98 |=========================== Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5 .. 29.68 |========================== Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 29.99 |========================== AMD FX-8370 ............ 53.36 |=============================================== FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X .... 5294.35 |============================== Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 .. 5345.04 |=============================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 5766.65 |================================= Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 5299.65 |============================== Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5 .. 6784.13 |======================================= Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 .. 7040.88 |======================================== Intel Xeon E3-1235L v5 . 5915.81 |================================== Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5 .. 7677.80 |============================================ Intel Xeon E3-1240L v5 . 6256.94 |==================================== Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 7553.48 |=========================================== Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5 . 7294.85 |========================================== Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5 .. 7848.57 |============================================= Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 7726.98 |============================================ AMD FX-8370 ............ 3757.97 |====================== TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3a Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X .... 346.86 |======================================== Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 .. 191.02 |====================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 398.78 |============================================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 400.06 |============================================== Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5 .. 154.83 |================== Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 .. 229.75 |========================== Intel Xeon E3-1235L v5 . 133.30 |=============== Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5 .. 236.22 |=========================== Intel Xeon E3-1240L v5 . 185.71 |===================== Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 230.22 |========================== Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5 . 230.33 |========================== Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5 .. 239.92 |============================ Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 236.22 |=========================== AMD FX-8370 ............ 167.99 |=================== x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X .... 301.31 |======================================= Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 .. 184.21 |======================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 353.95 |============================================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 357.39 |============================================== Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5 .. 141.77 |================== Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 .. 204.03 |========================== Intel Xeon E3-1235L v5 . 118.85 |=============== Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5 .. 207.81 |=========================== Intel Xeon E3-1240L v5 . 166.41 |===================== Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 202.47 |========================== Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5 . 202.45 |========================== Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5 .. 217.22 |============================ Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 209.03 |=========================== AMD FX-8370 ............ 157.59 |==================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X .... 1760.60 |============================= Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 .. 1823.66 |============================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 1904.15 |================================ Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 1776.00 |============================= Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5 .. 2369.54 |======================================= Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 .. 2590.97 |=========================================== Intel Xeon E3-1235L v5 . 2096.82 |=================================== Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5 .. 2622.84 |============================================ Intel Xeon E3-1240L v5 . 2220.97 |===================================== Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 2601.80 |=========================================== Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5 . 2643.74 |============================================ Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5 .. 2712.52 |============================================= Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 2674.95 |============================================ AMD FX-8370 ............ 698.61 |============ Intel -4460 ............ 1656.03 |=========================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X .... 61.95 |================= Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 .. 102.94 |============================ Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 54.50 |=============== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 53.61 |=============== Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5 .. 135.52 |===================================== Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 .. 92.10 |========================= Intel Xeon E3-1235L v5 . 150.93 |========================================= Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5 .. 90.02 |========================= Intel Xeon E3-1240L v5 . 112.43 |=============================== Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 92.52 |========================= Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5 . 92.87 |========================= Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5 .. 88.74 |======================== Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 90.10 |========================= AMD FX-8370 ............ 133.48 |===================================== Intel -4460 ............ 167.84 |============================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X .... 9.69 |============== Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 .. 17.60 |========================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 8.37 |============ Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 8.01 |============ Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5 .. 18.74 |============================ Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 .. 15.01 |====================== Intel Xeon E3-1235L v5 . 21.84 |================================ Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5 .. 14.66 |====================== Intel Xeon E3-1240L v5 . 18.63 |=========================== Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 15.04 |====================== Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5 . 15.04 |====================== Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5 .. 14.22 |===================== Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 14.60 |====================== AMD FX-8370 ............ 19.96 |============================= Intel -4460 ............ 31.91 |=============================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X .... 1093.37 |===================================== Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 .. 598.70 |==================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 1268.47 |=========================================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 1324.30 |============================================= Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5 .. 542.47 |================== Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 .. 679.00 |======================= Intel Xeon E3-1235L v5 . 461.20 |================ Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5 .. 697.73 |======================== Intel Xeon E3-1240L v5 . 546.87 |=================== Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 678.73 |======================= Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5 . 678.90 |======================= Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5 .. 716.67 |======================== Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 697.77 |======================== AMD FX-8370 ............ 679.00 |======================= Intel -4460 ............ 415.22 |==============