Intel Xeon Skylak MSI ASUS Mobo Comparison
Tests by Michael Larbael.


Xeon E3-1270 v5 - MSI C236A Workstation: 

	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

Xeon E3-1270 v5 - ASUS E3 PRO GAMING V5: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS E3 PRO GAMING V5, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB Toshiba MKNSSDEC120GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 5750, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 4.4.0-1-amd64 (x86_64), Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160409 + Clang 3.6.2-3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768


HPC Challenge 1.4.3
Test / Class: G-HPL
GFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - MSI C236A Workstation . 54.72310 |===========================
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - ASUS E3 PRO GAMING V5 . 6.86659  |===


Dolfyn 0.527
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - MSI C236A Workstation . 20.07 |==============================
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - ASUS E3 PRO GAMING V5 . 19.67 |=============================


LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0
Test: Rhodopsin Protein
Loop Time < Lower Is Better
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - MSI C236A Workstation . 29.68 |==============================
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - ASUS E3 PRO GAMING V5 . 29.68 |==============================


FFTE 5.0
Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - MSI C236A Workstation . 7848.57 |============================
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - ASUS E3 PRO GAMING V5 . 7828.85 |============================


Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2
Pfam Database Search
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - MSI C236A Workstation . 7.99 |===============================
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - ASUS E3 PRO GAMING V5 . 7.57 |=============================


TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3a
Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping
FPS > Higher Is Better
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - MSI C236A Workstation . 239.92 |=============================
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - ASUS E3 PRO GAMING V5 . 241.26 |=============================


x264 2015-11-02
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - MSI C236A Workstation . 217.22 |============================
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - ASUS E3 PRO GAMING V5 . 223.87 |=============================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - MSI C236A Workstation . 2712.52 |===========================
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - ASUS E3 PRO GAMING V5 . 2839.76 |============================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - MSI C236A Workstation . 88.74 |==============================
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - ASUS E3 PRO GAMING V5 . 86.76 |=============================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - MSI C236A Workstation . 14.22 |==============================
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - ASUS E3 PRO GAMING V5 . 14.22 |==============================


Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - MSI C236A Workstation . 8.71 |===============================
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - ASUS E3 PRO GAMING V5 . 8.53 |==============================


R Benchmark
Phoronix Test Suite v6.2.0
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - MSI C236A Workstation . 0.4361 |=============================


OpenSSL 1.0.1g
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - MSI C236A Workstation . 716.67 |=============================
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - ASUS E3 PRO GAMING V5 . 714.50 |=============================


PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3
Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write
TPS > Higher Is Better
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - MSI C236A Workstation . 4346.94 |============================
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - ASUS E3 PRO GAMING V5 . 411.57  |===


Redis 3.0.1
Test: GET
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - MSI C236A Workstation . 2994065.75 |======================
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - ASUS E3 PRO GAMING V5 . 3329876.08 |=========================


Redis 3.0.1
Test: SET
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - MSI C236A Workstation . 2255733.42 |=========================
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - ASUS E3 PRO GAMING V5 . 2157172.48 |========================


Apache Benchmark 2.4.7
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - MSI C236A Workstation . 51276.71 |===========================


Multichase Pointer Chaser
Test: 4MB Array, 64 Byte Stride
ns < Lower Is Better
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - MSI C236A Workstation . 5.33 |===============================
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - ASUS E3 PRO GAMING V5 . 5.38 |===============================


Multichase Pointer Chaser
Test: 1GB Array, 256 Byte Stride
ns < Lower Is Better
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - MSI C236A Workstation . 58.26 |====================
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - ASUS E3 PRO GAMING V5 . 87.14 |==============================


Multichase Pointer Chaser
Test: 256MB Array, 256 Byte Stride
ns < Lower Is Better
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - MSI C236A Workstation . 57.40 |====================
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - ASUS E3 PRO GAMING V5 . 85.63 |==============================


Multichase Pointer Chaser
Test: 1GB Array, 256 Byte Stride, 2 Threads
ns < Lower Is Better
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - MSI C236A Workstation . 60.15 |===================
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - ASUS E3 PRO GAMING V5 . 93.03 |==============================


Multichase Pointer Chaser
Test: 1GB Array, 256 Byte Stride, 4 Threads
ns < Lower Is Better
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - MSI C236A Workstation . 65.44  |==================
Xeon E3-1270 v5 - ASUS E3 PRO GAMING V5 . 102.83 |=============================