none Intel Xeon E5440 testing with a ASUS P5KPL and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB on Ubuntu 16.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core 2 Duo E6550: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 @ 2.33GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P5KPL, Chipset: Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31 + ICH7, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 320GB Seagate ST3320620AS, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB, Audio: Realtek ALC662 rev1, Monitor: SAMSUNG, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Attansic L1 Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.8.0-39-generic (x86_64), Display Driver: NVIDIA 1.0.0, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4 (ecryptfs), Screen Resolution: 1360x768 none: Processor: Intel Xeon E5440 @ 2.83GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P5KPL, Chipset: Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31 + ICH7, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 320GB Seagate ST3320620AS, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB, Audio: Realtek ALC662 rev1, Monitor: SAMSUNG, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Attansic L1 Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.8.0-41-generic (x86_64), Display Driver: NVIDIA 1.0.0, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4 (ecryptfs), Screen Resolution: 1360x768 Xeon: Processor: Intel Xeon E5440 @ 2.83GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P5KPL, Chipset: Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31 + ICH7, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 320GB Seagate ST3320620AS, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB, Audio: Realtek ALC662 rev1, Monitor: SAMSUNG, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Attansic L1 Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.8.0-41-generic (x86_64), Display Driver: NVIDIA 1.0.0, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4 (ecryptfs), Screen Resolution: 1360x768 C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 . 106.80 |============================================== Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 . 106.72 |============================================== none ................... 41.92 |================== Xeon ................... 41.91 |================== FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 . 35.02 |=============================================== none ................... 19.58 |========================== Xeon ................... 22.36 |============================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 . 3686 |======================= Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 . 3670 |======================= none ................... 7589 |=============================================== Xeon ................... 7733 |================================================ Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 . 38.11 |=============================================== none ................... 30.00 |===================================== Xeon ................... 37.05 |============================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 . 1610.09 |=========================== none ................... 2693.10 |============================================= Xeon ................... 2705.12 |============================================= Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 . 54.09 |=============================================== none ................... 40.09 |=================================== Xeon ................... 40.07 |=================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 . 26.91 |=============================================== none ................... 14.65 |========================== Xeon ................... 15.03 |========================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 . 1272 |==================== none ................... 3026 |=============================================== Xeon ................... 3085 |================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 . 65 |============================== none ................... 107 |================================================= Xeon ................... 84 |====================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 . 33 |============================ none ................... 59 |================================================== Xeon ................... 50 |========================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 . 747.36 |====================================== none ................... 913.15 |============================================== Xeon ................... 822.41 |========================================= Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 . 121.35 |============================================== none ................... 60.02 |======================= Xeon ................... 64.17 |======================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 . 138.91 |============================================== none ................... 64.45 |===================== Xeon ................... 66.69 |====================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 . 53.17 |=============================================== none ................... 19.06 |================= Xeon ................... 31.04 |=========================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 . 548 |================================================= none ................... 196 |================== Xeon ................... 196 |================== Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 . 176.45 |============================================== none ................... 120.28 |=============================== Xeon ................... 153.60 |======================================== Minion 1.8 Benchmark: Solitaire Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 . 183.74 |============================================== none ................... 125.05 |=============================== Xeon ................... 160.23 |======================================== Minion 1.8 Benchmark: Quasigroup Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 . 300.18 |============================================== none ................... 209.84 |================================ Xeon ................... 268.96 |=========================================