Xeon E3 1280 v5 Tests
Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 testing with a MSI Z170A SLI PLUS (MS-7998) v1.0 (2.90 BIOS) and Sapphire AMD Radeon 4096MB on Ubuntu 18.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


Xeon E3 v5 - KPTI + Retpoline: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: MSI Z170A SLI PLUS (MS-7998) v1.0 (2.90 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TOSHIBA-RD400, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 470/480 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-13-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.27.91, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.0-rc4 (LLVM 5.0.1), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160

Xeon E3 v5 - Retpoline: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: MSI Z170A SLI PLUS (MS-7998) v1.0 (2.90 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TOSHIBA-RD400, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-13-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.27.91, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.0-rc4 (LLVM 5.0.1), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160

Xeon E3 v5: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: MSI Z170A SLI PLUS (MS-7998) v1.0 (2.90 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TOSHIBA-RD400, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-13-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.27.91, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.0-rc4 (LLVM 5.0.1), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160


Java Gradle Build 1.0
Gradle Build: Reactor
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Xeon E3 v5 - KPTI + Retpoline . 21.85 |========================================
Xeon E3 v5 - Retpoline ........ 21.96 |========================================
Xeon E3 v5 .................... 21.91 |========================================


Bork File Encrypter 1.4
File Encryption Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Xeon E3 v5 - KPTI + Retpoline . 7.21 |=========================================
Xeon E3 v5 - Retpoline ........ 7.05 |========================================
Xeon E3 v5 .................... 6.93 |=======================================


LuaJIT 2.0.5
Test: Fast Fourier Transform
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Xeon E3 v5 - KPTI + Retpoline . 327.35 |===================================
Xeon E3 v5 - Retpoline ........ 356.27 |=======================================
Xeon E3 v5 .................... 360.27 |=======================================


LuaJIT 2.0.5
Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Xeon E3 v5 - KPTI + Retpoline . 1271.20 |======================================
Xeon E3 v5 - Retpoline ........ 1260.86 |======================================
Xeon E3 v5 .................... 1270.14 |======================================


LuaJIT 2.0.5
Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Xeon E3 v5 - KPTI + Retpoline . 1499.07 |======================================
Xeon E3 v5 - Retpoline ........ 1482.11 |=====================================
Xeon E3 v5 .................... 1503.10 |======================================


Optcarrot
Optimized Benchmark
FPS > Higher Is Better
Xeon E3 v5 - KPTI + Retpoline . 121.00 |=======================================
Xeon E3 v5 - Retpoline ........ 116.39 |======================================
Xeon E3 v5 .................... 120.42 |=======================================


Sunflow Rendering System 0.07.2
Global Illumination + Image Synthesis
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Xeon E3 v5 - KPTI + Retpoline . 2.37 |=========================================
Xeon E3 v5 - Retpoline ........ 2.35 |=========================================
Xeon E3 v5 .................... 2.36 |=========================================