Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 & E5-2687W v3 Compared To The Core i7 5960X On Linux
With the Xeon E5-2687W v3 it's possible to build the Linux x86_64 kernel in a default configuration in under 40 seconds.
The CPU temperatures weren't far off between these 140 and 160 Watt TDP CPUs.
The C-Ray ray-tracing benchmark is another test that scales especially well and thus portrays the Xeon E5-2687W v3 especially well compared to the two other CPUs at 16 threads.