Intel Xeon Skylake vs. Core i7 6800K Linux Comparison

Intel Xeon Skylake big comparison. Tests by Michael Larbael for a future article on Phoronix.com. Added in Broadwell-E Core i7 6800K system with MSI X99A WORKSTATION motherboard.

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Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5
February 22 2016
 
Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5
February 23 2016
 
Intel Xeon E3-1235L v5
February 23 2016
 
Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5
February 23 2016
 
Intel Xeon E3-1240L v5
February 22 2016
 
Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5
February 23 2016
 
Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5
February 22 2016
 
Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5
February 22 2016
 
Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5
February 22 2016
 
Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4
August 29 2016
 
Intel Core i7-6800K DDR4-2133
September 24 2016
 
Intel Core i7-6800K DDR4-2400
September 24 2016
 
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Intel Xeon Skylake vs. Core i7 6800K Linux Comparison Intel Xeon Skylake big comparison. Tests by Michael Larbael for a future article on Phoronix.com. Added in Broadwell-E Core i7 6800K system with MSI X99A WORKSTATION motherboard. ,,"Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5","Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5","Intel Xeon E3-1240L v5","Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5","Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5","Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5","Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5","Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5","Intel Xeon E3-1235L v5","Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4","Intel Core i7-6800K DDR4-2133","Intel Core i7-6800K DDR4-2400" Processor,,Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5 @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1240L v5 @ 3.20GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5 @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5 @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1235L v5 @ 3.00GHz (4 Cores),Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 @ 1.70GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-6800K @ 3.80GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-6800K @ 3.80GHz (12 Cores) Motherboard,,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI X99A WORKSTATION (MS-7A54) v1.0,MSI X99A WORKSTATION (MS-7A54) v1.0,MSI X99A WORKSTATION (MS-7A54) v1.0 Chipset,,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Xeon E7 v4/Xeon,Intel Xeon E7 v4/Xeon,Intel Xeon E7 v4/Xeon Memory,,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB Disk,,120GB OCZ TRION150,120GB OCZ TRION150,120GB OCZ TRION150,120GB OCZ TRION150,120GB OCZ TRION150,120GB OCZ TRION150,120GB OCZ TRION150,120GB OCZ TRION150,120GB OCZ TRION150,3 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150,3 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150,3 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150 Graphics,,MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB,MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB,MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB,MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB,MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB,MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB,MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB,MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB,MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB,LLVMpipe,LLVMpipe,LLVMpipe Audio,,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150 Monitor,,DELL P2415Q,DELL P2415Q,DELL P2415Q,DELL P2415Q,DELL P2415Q,DELL P2415Q,DELL P2415Q,DELL P2415Q,DELL P2415Q,,, Network,,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection OS,,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04 Kernel,,4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160220,4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160220,4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160220,4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160220,4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160220,4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160220,4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160220,4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160220,4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160220,4.4.0-34-generic (x86_64),4.8.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160922,4.8.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160922 Desktop,,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0 Display Server,,X Server 1.17.3,X Server 1.17.3,X Server 1.17.3,X Server 1.17.3,X Server 1.17.3,X Server 1.17.3,X Server 1.17.3,X Server 1.17.3,X Server 1.17.3,X Server 1.18.3,X Server 1.18.3,X Server 1.18.3 Display Driver,,radeon 7.6.1,radeon 7.6.1,radeon 7.6.1,radeon 7.6.1,radeon 7.6.1,radeon 7.6.1,radeon 7.6.1,radeon 7.6.1,radeon 7.6.1,nouveau 1.0.12,nouveau 1.0.12,nouveau 1.0.12 OpenGL,,4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-ff360a5 2016-02-22 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4,4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-ff360a5 2016-02-22 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4,4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-ff360a5 2016-02-22 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4,4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-ff360a5 2016-02-22 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4,4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-ff360a5 2016-02-22 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4,4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-ff360a5 2016-02-22 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4,4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-ff360a5 2016-02-22 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4,4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-ff360a5 2016-02-22 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4,4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-ff360a5 2016-02-22 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4,3.3 Mesa 11.2.0 Gallium 0.4,3.3 Mesa 11.2.0 Gallium 0.4,3.3 Mesa 11.2.0 Gallium 0.4 OpenCL,,OpenCL 1.2 beignet 1.1.1,OpenCL 1.2 beignet 1.1.1,OpenCL 1.2 beignet 1.1.1,OpenCL 1.2 beignet 1.1.1,OpenCL 1.2 beignet 1.1.1,OpenCL 1.2 beignet 1.1.1,OpenCL 1.2 beignet 1.1.1,OpenCL 1.2 beignet 1.1.1,OpenCL 1.2 beignet 1.1.1,,, Compiler,,GCC 5.3.1 20160211,GCC 5.3.1 20160211,GCC 5.3.1 20160211,GCC 5.3.1 20160211,GCC 5.3.1 20160211,GCC 5.3.1 20160211,GCC 5.3.1 20160211,GCC 5.3.1 20160211,GCC 5.3.1 20160211,GCC 5.4.0 20160609,GCC 5.4.0 20160609,GCC 5.4.0 20160609 File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,1024x768,1024x768,1024x768 ,,"Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5","Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5","Intel Xeon E3-1240L v5","Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5","Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5","Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5","Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5","Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5","Intel Xeon E3-1235L v5","Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4","Intel Core i7-6800K DDR4-2133","Intel Core i7-6800K DDR4-2400" "Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,49096.47,47726.08,39699.09,51276.71,52012.64,50070.52,47209.15,48360.84,44849.47,28279.23,36340.78,40048.52 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,14.60,15.04,18.63,14.22,18.74,14.66,15.04,15.01,21.84,21.29,12.34,12.28 "Dolfyn - Computational Fluid Dynamics (sec)",LIB,19.99,20.52,24.92,20.07,22.60,20.52,20.72,20.75,26.18,47.10,23.09,23.24 "FFTE - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine (MFLOPS)",HIB,7726.98,7294.85,6256.94,7848.57,6784.13,7677.80,7553.48,7040.88,5915.81,2658.93,5620.46,5620.24 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,2674.95,2643.74,2220.97,2712.52,2369.54,2622.84,2601.80,2590.97,2096.82,897.48,1796.82,1812.68 "HPC Challenge - Test / Class: G-HPL (GFLOPS)",HIB,53.31963,52.04243,42.39140,54.72310,41.98680,53.30820,51.99800,52.09620,40.52340,48.78083,72.00063,74.05210 "LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator - Test: Rhodopsin Protein (Loop Time)",LIB,29.99,30.98,37.08,29.68,34.15,30.50,30.70,31.24,39.28,72.20,35.75,35.17 "Multichase Pointer Chaser - Test: 4MB Array, 64 Byte Stride (ns)",LIB,5.29,5.43,6.61,5.33,6.05,5.43,5.42,5.58,7.05,12.03,7.37,7.00 "Multichase Pointer Chaser - Test: 1GB Array, 256 Byte Stride (ns)",LIB,57.92,58.37,60.45,58.26,59.06,58.32,58.08,58.50,61.87,71.83,64.82,58.65 "Multichase Pointer Chaser - Test: 256MB Array, 256 Byte Stride (ns)",LIB,57.64,57.50,59.50,57.40,58.81,57.48,57.42,57.66,61.30,67.50,67.39,58.96 "Multichase Pointer Chaser - Test: 1GB Array, 256 Byte Stride, 2 Threads (ns)",LIB,59.80,60.52,62.99,60.15,61.26,60.32,60.14,60.43,63.91,75.42,69.41,63.22 "Multichase Pointer Chaser - Test: 1GB Array, 256 Byte Stride, 4 Threads (ns)",LIB,65.07,65.54,68.24,65.44,69.28,65.62,65.76,66.16,69.64,80.33,75.08,67.82 "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,697.77,678.90,546.87,716.67,542.47,697.73,678.73,679.00,461.20,569.17,978.07,983.00 "Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,8.96,9.14,11.21,8.71,14.74,8.95,9.17,9.14,15.62,12.44,6.68,6.44 "PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write (TPS)",HIB,4483.54,4330.40,4351.46,4346.94,3234.21,4295.51,4002.13,4132.68,2965.18,4271.09,4865.89,4674.38 "R Benchmark - Phoronix Test Suite v6.2.0 (sec)",LIB,0.4387,0.4531,0.5330,0.4361,0.5004,0.4507,0.4492,0.4582,0.5698,,, "Redis - Test: GET (Reqs/sec)",HIB,3027864.71,2851046.83,2202655.13,2994065.75,2534618.83,2698078.00,2893621.58,2748290.50,2214490.17,1407185.83,2279732.75,1835208.23 "Redis - Test: SET (Reqs/sec)",HIB,2199479.58,2004189.33,1698600.58,2255733.42,1879525.94,2167502.44,2139045.77,2072837.85,1584865.96,955736.02,1660238.83,1461274.90 "Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,8.17,8.32,10.05,7.99,11.39,8.17,8.34,8.36,13.07,12.20,7.24,7.20 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,90.10,92.87,112.43,88.74,135.52,90.02,92.52,92.10,150.93,125.87,73.72,72.04 "TTSIOD 3D Renderer - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping (FPS)",HIB,236.22,230.33,185.71,239.92,154.83,236.22,230.22,229.75,133.30,163.19,279.64,299.40 "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,209.03,202.45,166.41,217.22,141.77,207.81,202.47,204.03,118.85,145.19,256.94,259.86