host111-1 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6240Y testing with a Intel S2600BPS (SE5C620.86B.02.01.0008.031920191559 BIOS) and Intel HD 520 on CentOS Linux 7 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 6240 Optane 8G: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6240Y @ 3.90GHz (36 Cores / 72 Threads), Motherboard: Intel S2600BPS (SE5C620.86B.02.01.0008.031920191559 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 507904MB, Disk: 375GB INTEL SSDPED1K375GA + 480GB INTEL SSDSC2KB48, Graphics: Intel HD 520, Network: 2 x Intel X722 for 10GbE SFP+ OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-957.21.3.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), OpenGL: 1.4 (3.0 Mesa 18.0.5), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 C-Ray 1.1 Total Time - 4K, 16 Rays Per Pixel Seconds < Lower Is Better 6240 Optane 8G . 22.46 |======================================================= POV-Ray 3.7.0.7 Trace Time Seconds < Lower Is Better 6240 Optane 8G . 17.39 |======================================================= Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 128 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better 6240 Optane 8G . 110.08 |====================================================== Sunflow Rendering System 0.07.2 Global Illumination + Image Synthesis Seconds < Lower Is Better 6240 Optane 8G . 1.06 |========================================================