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Intel Xeon X5680 and EVGA W555 SR2 benchmarks
IN PART 2 of our review, we saw the features and overall environment set up for the world's fastest PC platform. In this last installment, we'll finally take a look at the benchmark results.
After a week of trying and adjusting, things actually went darn well, given that this is a pre-production mainboard a month before its launch, and the CPUs are brand new, the first B0 stepping of six-core 32nm Intel CPUs out there.
So, the platform was set to two different main settings. One, the default, was 3.33GHz CPUs with Turbo off using 25 x 133 BCLK, with 12GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-2000 memory across six channels, running at DDR3-1333 CL 6-6-6-16. The voltages were 1.15V for the CPU and 1.53V for the memory. The other setting was the 'Productive Speedup', with 4.0GHz CPUs, Turbo still disabled, using 25 x 160 BCLK, and the same Kingston memory running at DDR3-1600 latency CL 6-6-6-16. This time, the voltages were 1.31V for the CPU and 1.6V for the memory, as you could see on the screenshot in Part 2.
The key, again, is that the 4GHz tuned setup here provides up to 20 per cent higher performance without any major extra stress on either the CPU or other system components, and with voltages, heat and total power consumption still firmly in check even with standard cooling and power components like a 1,000W PSU and good air cooling HSFs.
In each case, I ran all the benchmarks in both non-multithreaded with 1 thread per core, and multithreaded Hyperthreading (HT) on with 2 threads per core. The exceptions were Futuremark's 3Dmark and PCmark, which don't like hyperthreading at all, it seems, on dual CPU platforms. The goal was to see, first, how linearly, if so, the performance scales with the frequency, since the memory is speeding up in sync with the CPU. Then, the second goal was to see how HT impacts the performance - sometimes for better, and other times not.
Here is the old favourite, Sandra 2010, in CPU benchmark, without HT at 4GHz. Note that the FP result number is very similar to what a Linpack would be on the same clock:
And HT enabled at the same 4GHz. Yes, it does beat a four socket six-core AMD Opteron by a wide margin, if you care about Sandra CPU:
Then we come to the Sandra 2010 Cryptography benchmarkk, where the new AES routines push the CPU an order of magnitude ahead of competition. Here is the slide at 4GHz with HT:
Sandra memory bandwidth, at 4 GHz no HT. The result is good, but still has another 20 per cent up to go after the required BIOS memory latency and QPI NUMA tweaks not to mention a bit higher QPI clock. The final result at DDR3-1600 CL 6-6-6-16 across six channels should be over 45 GB/s actually, knowing that we can get 40 GB/s from DDR3-1333 CL9 memory right now.
Then we come to Cinebench 10, the classing parallel ray traced 3-D photorealistic rendering test, and very interesting story there. It can only scale up to 16 threads total, so the hyperthreaded version was noticeably slower at the default clock. Here is the 4GHz one, too:
Here comes Cinebench 11.5, with a brand new benchmarking system, updated GUI as well as much improved threading. Take a look at how the benchmark scales across different frequencies, and with or without HT:
Look also at the OpenGL portion. When the CPU HT is on, the results may end up slightly lower. There's also a comparative result with Nvidia Quadro FX 5800 4GB card, showing that professional OpenGL implementations still have an edge here.
Then we go on to 3Dmark Vantage. See the CPU test results at 3.33GHz and 4.0GHz with a single HD 5870 here. The CPU results scale well with the clock, obviously.
How about PCmark Vantage, in 64-bit mode? Compare the results between 3.33GHz and 4GHz, overall:
Note that the X5680 CPU performed this well at just 1.3V. Based on this experience, and Intel's usual routine to do another slight stepping upgrade soon after a new process CPU is introduced, I believe Intel can easily introduce a, say, 3.6GHz X5690 with 3.73GHz Turbo later this year at its convenience. If it needs to, of course.
In summary, great performance here. The dual 4GHz Xeon X5680 CPUs on the EVGA W555 SuperRecord2 mainboard provide the best raw performance we've ever seen from a PC, truly a 'Super Record' for now. There is still a plenty of BIOS and board tuning to go through before the official launch another three weeks from now, and we hope to bring you updated results with the retail mainboard and more 'reliable CPU overclocking' by then. At the same time, let's see what the competing big mainboard brands will do about matching this performance. µ
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