Blender 2.82 vs. 2.81 Benchmark Comparison
2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 testing with a GIGABYTE MD61-SC2-00 v01000100 (T15 BIOS) and llvmpipe 377GB on Ubuntu 20.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


Xeon Platinum 8280 2P: 

	Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 @ 4.00GHz (56 Cores / 112 Threads), Motherboard: GIGABYTE MD61-SC2-00 v01000100 (T15 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 378GB, Disk: 280GB INTEL SSDPED1D280GA, Graphics: llvmpipe 377GB, Monitor: VE228, Network: 2 x Intel X722 for 1GbE + 2 x QLogic FastLinQ QL41000 10/25/40/50GbE

	OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.5.0-050500-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.34.3, Display Server: X Server 1.20.7, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.7, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 19.2.4 (LLVM 9.0 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 9.2.1 20200123, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


Blender 2.82
Blend File: Pabellon Barcelona - Compute: CPU-Only
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Xeon Platinum 8280 2P . 128.66 |===============================================


Blender 2.82
Blend File: Barbershop - Compute: CPU-Only
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Xeon Platinum 8280 2P . 186.93 |===============================================


Blender 2.82
Blend File: Fishy Cat - Compute: CPU-Only
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Xeon Platinum 8280 2P . 66.71 |================================================


Blender 2.82
Blend File: Classroom - Compute: CPU-Only
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Xeon Platinum 8280 2P . 100.45 |===============================================


Blender 2.82
Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Xeon Platinum 8280 2P . 38.83 |================================================


Blender 2.81
Blend File: Pabellon Barcelona - Compute: CPU-Only
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Xeon Platinum 8280 2P . 128.06 |===============================================


Blender 2.81
Blend File: Barbershop - Compute: CPU-Only
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Xeon Platinum 8280 2P . 155.30 |===============================================


Blender 2.81
Blend File: Fishy Cat - Compute: CPU-Only
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Xeon Platinum 8280 2P . 64.72 |================================================


Blender 2.81
Blend File: Classroom - Compute: CPU-Only
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Xeon Platinum 8280 2P . 100.36 |===============================================


Blender 2.81
Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Xeon Platinum 8280 2P . 38.40 |================================================