The Intel Xeon W Review: W-2195, W-2155, W-2123, W-2104 and W-2102 Tested
by Ian Cutress & Joe Shields on July 30, 2018 1:00 PM EST- Posted in
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- Xeon
- Workstation
- ECC
- Skylake-SP
- Skylake-X
- Xeon-W
- Xeon Scalable
Benchmarking Performance: CPU Web Tests
One of the issues when running web-based tests is the nature of modern browsers to automatically install updates. This means any sustained period of benchmarking will invariably fall foul of the 'it's updated beyond the state of comparison' rule, especially when browsers will update if you give them half a second to think about it. Despite this, we were able to find a series of commands to create an un-updatable version of Chrome 56 for our 2017 test suite. While this means we might not be on the bleeding edge of the latest browser, it makes the scores between CPUs comparable.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
*Due to some issues in our web testing, only the following tests had scores that were comparable.
Google Octane 2.0: link
Along with Mozilla, as Google is a major browser developer, having peak JS performance is typically a critical asset when comparing against the other OS developers. In the same way that SunSpider is a very early JS benchmark, and Kraken is a bit newer, Octane aims to be more relevant to real workloads, especially in power constrained devices such as smartphones and tablets.
WebXPRT 2015: link
While the previous three benchmarks do calculations in the background and represent a score, WebXPRT is designed to be a better interpretation of visual workloads that a professional user might have, such as browser based applications, graphing, image editing, sort/analysis, scientific analysis and financial tools.
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Alsw - Monday, July 30, 2018 - link
Nice article, unless i missed it it would be really handy to know all core Turbo boosts you acheived as i don't' think Intel release this info any more? i am in a situation where our FEA/CFD applications beneifit from both frequency and GHz so it is tricky, even before you start taking into acount whether dual CPU is better with the potential for performance variance data being passed between two physical CPU'sIan Cutress - Monday, July 30, 2018 - link
I thought I had the information, but I do not. I've reached out to Intel - normally the enterprise side of the business gives out this info, but the consumer side does not. I'll update the review when we get the details.eek2121 - Monday, July 30, 2018 - link
Looks like it's time to update your benchmark suite and redo benchmarks. Octane 2.0 has long since been retired, WebXPRT 15 as well. I like chrome, but you can disable updates in Firefox fairly easily. 7zip is at (!) 18.05. The version you are using is from 2010.Ian Cutress - Monday, July 30, 2018 - link
We've got a new benchmark suite for our next review, I put the finishing touches to it recently. The time we had these CPUs, it was not ready in time (also for retesting - a new suite takes about a month to bed in with older hardware).HStewart - Monday, July 30, 2018 - link
Ian, it would be really nice to see the performance benefits of AVX 512 in these benchmarks.I try to search for what applications are available that use AVX 512 - only thing I found was the following
https://www.hpcwire.com/2017/06/29/reinders-avx-51...
Ian Cutress - Monday, July 30, 2018 - link
I've got a few for our new suite. 3DPM has an AVX-512 mode now, and I've got the latest y-cruncherJoeyJoJo123 - Monday, July 30, 2018 - link
"AMD’s chiplet design will take a few generations to get used to"Is chiplet the silicon equivalent of calling someone a manlet? Lol.
jcc5169 - Monday, July 30, 2018 - link
There they go again! More Intel Fanboy propaganda !!!Ian Cutress - Monday, July 30, 2018 - link
So a review of a product = fan boy? What? Last week I was told I was an AMD shill.BurntMyBacon - Tuesday, July 31, 2018 - link
CONFIRMED! Ian is a double agent. Now that his cover is blown, he must commence emergency extraction procedures and call in a body double.Or maybe people just get a little too upset when things don't go as expected ..... Nah, I like the double agent story better. You'll have to let us know what your call signs were.