IBM 3850X5 no microcode qemu testing on Debian 10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. IBM 3850X5 before microcode Debian10: Processor: 4 x Intel Xeon E7 8870 (80 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9 2009) (0.0.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31 + ICH9, Memory: 25600MB, Disk: 21GB QEMU HDD, Audio: Intel 82801I, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Debian 10, Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server, Compiler: GCC 8.3.0 + Clang 7.0.1-8 + LLVM 7.0.1, File-System: ext4, System Layer: qemu Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better IBM 3850X5 before microcode Debian10 . 44.88 |================================= Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better IBM 3850X5 before microcode Debian10 . 865.55 |================================ NAMD 2.13b1 ATPase Simulation - 327,506 Atoms days/ns < Lower Is Better IBM 3850X5 before microcode Debian10 . 3.56608 |=============================== x264 2018-09-25 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better IBM 3850X5 before microcode Debian10 . 8.76 |================================== x265 3.0 H.265 1080p Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better IBM 3850X5 before microcode Debian10 . 6.37 |================================== 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better IBM 3850X5 before microcode Debian10 . 18003 |================================= Stockfish 9 Total Time Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better IBM 3850X5 before microcode Debian10 . 28069717 |============================== asmFish 2018-07-23 1024 Hash Memory, 26 Depth Nodes/second > Higher Is Better IBM 3850X5 before microcode Debian10 . 28994247 |============================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.18 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better IBM 3850X5 before microcode Debian10 . 104.98 |================================ POV-Ray 3.7.0.7 Trace Time Seconds < Lower Is Better IBM 3850X5 before microcode Debian10 . 71.90 |================================= OpenSSL 1.1.1 RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better IBM 3850X5 before microcode Debian10 . 1393.09 |=============================== ctx_clock Context Switch Time Clocks < Lower Is Better IBM 3850X5 before microcode Debian10 . 751 |=================================== Sysbench 2018-07-28 Test: CPU Events Per Second > Higher Is Better IBM 3850X5 before microcode Debian10 . 20748.97 |============================== Blender 2.79a Blend File: Barbershop - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better IBM 3850X5 before microcode Debian10 . 1235.13 |===============================