Benchmarks: Synthetic Performance

Cinebench R15 is probably the most pop benchmark for measuring CPU functioning, and it is a dandy mode to become a quick reading on unmarried and multi-threaded performance. As expected when using a single thread, the Xeon E5-2670 isn't exactly the quickest thing around, though information technology even so outpaced the AMD FX-8350 and wasn't a great deal slower than the 5960X.

The multi-threaded results for the unmarried Xeon E5-2670 were quite adept at 1038pts, which placed it betwixt the Core i7-6700K and 5960X. Nevertheless adding a second E5-2670 immune for a score that exceeded 2000pts, making the duo considerably faster than whatever desktop processor available today.

The functioning margins seen in the 3D Particle Movement benchmark are extremely like to those seen in Cinebench. This shows that applications able to leverage all sixteen-cores/32-threads of the Xeon rig are going to see the E5-2670's accident away the 5960X - and pretty much anything else in the toll neighborhood.

The SPECwpc production evolution test includes workloads from applications such every bit SolidWorks, Autodesk Showcase, Siemens NX, and Catia. Not all the tests are able to fully leverage the dual Xeon E5-2670 processors, but those that did allowed for an overall 24% increase in operation, making the duo faster than the 5960X.

The Life Sciences work loads were able to better utilise the dual processor setup, as we saw a 31% increase in performance when adding a second processor. Again what is key here is how the dual Xeons are able to comfortably beat the 5960X at a fraction of the toll.

Hither we meet the maximum possible performance proceeds when calculation a second Xeon processor, every bit the initial score with a unmarried processor is additional by 100%. The dual Xeon setup delivered an impressive score of six.31pts, making it 56% faster than the 5960X.