no microcode update Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 testing with a Supermicro X10SRi-F v1.01 (2.0b BIOS) and ASPEED ASPEED Family on CentOS 6.9 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 @ 3.80GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: Supermicro X10SRi-F v1.01 (2.0b BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 4 x 16384 MB DDR4-2133MHz Micron 36ASF2G72PZ-2G1A2, Disk: 8000GB NMR8110-4i, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Network: Intel I350 Gigabit Connection OS: CentOS 6.9, Kernel: 2.6.32-696.23.1.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4 microcode updated: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 @ 3.80GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: Supermicro X10SRi-F v1.01 (2.0b BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 4 x 16384 MB DDR4-2133MHz Micron 36ASF2G72PZ-2G1A2, Disk: 8000GB NMR8110-4i, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Network: Intel I350 Gigabit Connection OS: CentOS 6.9, Kernel: 2.6.32-696.23.1.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4 FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 . 6403.04 |============================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 . 17.55 |================================================ microcode updated ..... 17.54 |================================================ C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 . 27.87 |================================================ microcode updated ..... 27.85 |================================================ Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 . 6.78 |=============================================== microcode updated ..... 7.09 |================================================= Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 . 10.84 |================================================ microcode updated ..... 10.81 |================================================ Minion 0.15 Benchmark: Graceful Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 . 64.86 |================================================ microcode updated ..... 64.74 |================================================ Minion 0.15 Benchmark: Solitaire Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 . 83.82 |================================================ microcode updated ..... 83.62 |================================================ Minion 0.15 Benchmark: Quasigroup Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 . 136.66 |=============================================== microcode updated ..... 136.35 |=============================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 . 898.00 |=============================================== microcode updated ..... 897.90 |=============================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 . 18422.04 |============================================= microcode updated ..... 17868.22 |============================================ PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 . 134411 |=============================================== microcode updated ..... 134472 |===============================================