9-Way Intel Xeon E3 v5 Skylake Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux

For those wondering about the E3 v5 processor temperatures when running these tests and using the Arctic Cooling i11 HSF:

These 14nm CPUs were averaging only around the lower 30s while their peak temperatures were in the upper 40s to lower 50s (Celsius). The -L Skylake processors had an average temperature around 25C and a peak in the mid 30s.

As the Xeon E3-1245 v5 and E3-1235L had integrated HD Graphics P530, I also ran some OpenGL and OpenCL benchmarks on these processors. While they both have P530 graphics, the E3-1235L had a P530 clock frequency of 1100MHz while the E3-1245 v5 had a graphics clock frequency of 1150MHz.

The OpenGL results aren't particularly exciting.

The OpenCL results are interesting and it's great to see Beignet continuing to evolve for providing workable open-source OpenCL compute support. To see more of the OpenGL/OpenCL results for these two Xeon processors with HD Graphics P530, visit this OpenBenchmarking.org result file.

Well, that's all of the initial test data to share from benchmarking these Xeon E3 v5 Skylake processors over the past week. It was certainly fun and interesting. Thanks again to MSI Computer for loaning us these processors for testing and will be carrying out several other interesting benchmarks in the days ahead.

If you want to explore more of the Skylake Xeon test data collected during this Ubuntu 16.04 benchmarking, see this OpenBenchmarking.org result file. From the fourteen CPUs tested, I recollected some of the more interesting results for tests that can also be benchmarked quickly and easily and they are available via 1602251-GA-XEONLINUX60 on OpenBenchmarking.org So if you want to see how your own Linux system(s) compare, simply install the Phoronix Test Suite and run phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1602251-GA-XEONLINUX60 to facilitate your own fully-automated, side-by-side performance comparison. You can find other test results for this range of processors via the OpenBenchmarking.org search.

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