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Modern Xeon CPU Benchmarks

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I'm considering building a workstation machine with dual Xeon CPUs. This isn't really for gaming more for work but I haven't found a good benchmark that shows how the Xeons stack up against the competition in dual CPU configurations.

Has anyone got any good information on building Xeon workstations? Most of the PC building information is centred on consumer systems rather than professional systems.
 
It all depends on what your wishing to use the system for, dual xeons really shine in heavily threaded workloads such as rendering or maths calculations, or multiple virtual machines etc. If it's for gaming you will get much better performance with a oc'd consumer chip.

Near the bottom of this page shows the benchmark scores for multi threaded vs single threaded.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18546142&page=20

I recall Anandtech have done some good write ups, also OC3D and Linus have also done some semi entertaining vids which may be worth a view.
 
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You’re basically looking for what Anandtech's Bench can provide; it allows comparisons of the latest Haswell-EP CPUs (E5 26xx) in dual and single socket configurations. You can compare to most other processors (e.g. single versus dual socket, or dual socket versus say, an 8350e) using a whole swathe of real and synthetic benches. You’ll find the Xeons down at the very bottom of the (alphabetically sorted) processor list.

Link: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/1026
 
Blackbadger said:
It all depends on what your wishing to use the system for, dual xeons really shine in heavily threaded workloads such as rendering or maths calculations, or multiple virtual machines etc. If it's for gaming you will get much better performance with a oc'd consumer chip.

Near the bottom of this page shows the benchmark scores for multi threaded vs single threaded.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18546142&page=10

I recall Anandtech have done some good write ups, also OC3D and Linus have also done some semi entertaining vids which may be worth a view.
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Yeah this is for a digital audio workstation, software development and for running lots of development virtual machines so the dual Xeons should suit my workload perfectly.

philo-sofa said:
You’re basically looking for what Anandtech's Bench can provide; it allows comparisons of the latest Haswell-EP CPUs (E5 26xx) in dual and single socket configurations. You can compare to most other processors (e.g. single versus dual socket, or dual socket versus say, an 8350e) using a whole swathe of real and synthetic benches. You’ll find the Xeons down at the very bottom of the (alphabetically sorted) processor list.

Link: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/1026
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Awesome. Thanks I'll check that out.

The power of these dual CPU systems is incredible. I had a dual CPU Xeon system back in 2006 and it was still performing well in 2010. I'd like to replicate that long life with this new system.
 
Cromulent said:
Awesome. Thanks I'll check that out.

The power of these dual CPU systems is incredible. I had a dual CPU Xeon system back in 2006 and it was still performing well in 2010. I'd like to replicate that long life with this new system.
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Was that one of the first Conroe/Allendale Xeons? Man that would have been so far ahead of its time; absolutely the perfect time to buy a server rig! If that is what you were using no wonder it still owned at the start of the next decade :)
 
My first laptop was a Core Duo, a T2300 IIRC. Wasn't even 64-bit! I remember thinking it was pretty slow even when new.

Core 2 was the first big leap to where we are now, followed by Nehalem.
 
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