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
- CPUs
- Intel
- 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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Icehawk - Friday, August 3, 2018 - link
Can you please provide your Handbrake x265 config? I would suggest providing a link to a page showing settings for your encodes. Your 4k speeds are much, much higher than I have gotten.xray9 - Saturday, August 4, 2018 - link
What I really hate about all these new CPUs / mainboards .. only Support for Win10 and alike, no Win7 anymore. Win10 has not the overall quality yet and EULA is against privacy.TitovVN1974 - Sunday, August 5, 2018 - link
IMHO, there is no support for AVX512 in windows versions prior to 10.lillylothian - Saturday, April 27, 2019 - link
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