The Xeon E5-2600: Dual Sandy Bridge for Servers
by Johan De Gelas on March 6, 2012 9:27 AM EST- Posted in
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Rendering Performance: Cinebench
Cinebench, based on MAXON's CINEMA 4D software, is probably one of the most popular benchmarks around as it is pretty easy to perform this benchmark on your own home machine. The benchmark supports 64 threads, more than enough for our 24- and 32-thread test servers. First we tested single-threaded performance, to evaluate the performance of each core.
Cinebench achieves an IPC between 1.4 and 1.8 and is mostly dominated by SSE2 code. The Sandy Bridge core offers about 33% better single-threaded SSE performance. We checked: the 33% can be split up into 21% gains from architectural improvements and 12% from the improved Turbo capabilities.
Let's check out the multi-threaded score.
Prior to the launch of the Xeon E5 series, the Opteron 6276 offered a better performance per dollar ratio than comparable Xeon 5600s due to their similar performance at a much lower pricepoint. Now that the Xeon E5 has arrived, the tables have turned. If Xeon E5 servers are in the same price range as Xeon 5600 servers, the Xeon E5-2630 will offer the best performance/price ratio.
And if you want top performance, Intel is the only option. Case in point: a dual Xeon E5-2690 comes close to what a Quad Opteron 6276 can deliver, with the dual Xeon scoring 24.7 while the quad Opteron scores 26.4.
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dilidolo - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - link
Link not working on first page - THE SPECS AND THE SKUSyvizel - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - link
For some reason I cannot go beyond the first page...yvizel - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - link
Second page, in the Intel table, the 2630 is listed as an eight core CPU.But then: "...Based on the paper specs, AMD's 6276, 6274 and Intel's 2640 and 2630 are in a neck-and-neck race. AMD offers 16 smaller integer clusters, while Intel offers 6 heavy, slightly higher clocked cores with SMT..."
JohanAnandtech - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - link
Fixed, thanks for letting me know!-Johan
Assimilator87 - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - link
Ah man, the 2630L error totally got my hopes up. 8 cores for $662 would be very reasonable.jumjjcmsw - Thursday, November 10, 2016 - link
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Kjella - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - link
...just got bulldozed. And this isn't even on the 22nm 3D transistors they're launching next month, it's like they just got a dizzying punch and know the KO punch is coming.A5 - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - link
It'll probably be awhile before the Ivy Bridge Xeons are out.Kjella - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - link
Of course, I'm guessing Q1 2013 before we'll see those but we already know from all the leaked SB -> IB details roughly what SB-Xeon to IB-Xeon will be like. All AMD has on their roadmap for 2013 is the "Abu Dhabi" with the "Piledriver" core promising 10-15% performance boost but still on 32nm. So you can see the punch coming a year away, but I don't think AMD has the capability to do anything about it.saharadusud - Saturday, January 7, 2017 - link
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