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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- Skylake-X
- Xeon-W
- Xeon Scalable
Benchmarking Performance: CPU Legacy Tests
Our legacy tests represent benchmarks that were once at the height of their time. Some of these are industry standard synthetics, and we have data going back over 10 years. All of the data here has been rerun on Windows 10, and we plan to go back several generations of components to see how performance has evolved.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
3D Particle Movement v1
3DPM is a self-penned benchmark, taking basic 3D movement algorithms used in Brownian Motion simulations and testing them for speed. High floating point performance, MHz and IPC wins in the single thread version, whereas the multithread version has to handle the threads and loves more cores. This is the original version, written in the style of a typical non-computer science student coding up an algorithm for their theoretical problem, and comes without any non-obvious optimizations not already performed by the compiler, such as false sharing.
CineBench 11.5 and 10
Cinebench is a widely known benchmarking tool for measuring performance relative to MAXON's animation software Cinema 4D. Cinebench has been optimized over a decade and focuses on purely CPU horsepower, meaning if there is a discrepancy in pure throughput characteristics, Cinebench is likely to show that discrepancy. Arguably other software doesn't make use of all the tools available, so the real world relevance might purely be academic, but given our large database of data for Cinebench it seems difficult to ignore a small five minute test. We run the modern version 15 in this test, as well as the older 11.5 and 10 due to our back data.
x264 HD 3.0
Similarly, the x264 HD 3.0 package we use here is also kept for historic regressional data. The latest version is 5.0.1, and encodes a 1080p video clip into a high quality x264 file. Version 3.0 only performs the same test on a 720p file, and in most circumstances the software performance hits its limit on high end processors, but still works well for mainstream and low-end. Also, this version only takes a few minutes, whereas the latest can take over 90 minutes to run.
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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.