Configurazione di prova
Intel ci ha inviato una delle proprie soluzioni P4000 e una scheda madre W2600CR.
Crucial ci ha fornito 96 GB di memoria DDR3-1600 da abbinare alle piattaforme Xeon E5 5500/5600. Le DDR3-1333 sono molto più comuni, ma non sono in grado di spingere i nostri Xeon E5 alla velocità massima con un modulo per canale. I moduli registered sono più lenti rispetto alle memorie unbuffered, ma abbiamo ottenuto un uso del bandwidth di memoria migliore usando l'hardware di Crucial anziché un kit desktop quad-channel da 32 GB. 
| Sistema di prova | |
|---|---|
| Processori | 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2687W (Sandy Bridge-EP) 3.1 GHz, Eight Cores, LGA 2011, 8 GT/s QPI, 20 MB Shared L3, Hyper-Threading enabled, Power-savings enabled |
| 2 x Intel Xeon X5680 (Westmere-EP) 3.33 GHz, Six Cores, LGA 1366, 6.4 GT/s QPI, 12 MB Shared L3, Hyper-Threading enabled, Power-savings enabled | |
| 2 x Intel Xeon W5580 (Nehalem-EP) 3.2 GHz, Four Cores, LGA 1366, 6.4 GT/s QPI, 8 MB Shared L3, Hyper-Threading enabled, Power-savings enabled | |
| 1 x Intel Core i7-3960X (Sandy Bridge-E) 3.3 GHz, Six Cores, LGA 2011, 15 MB Shared L3, Hyper-Threading enabled, Power-savings enabled | |
| Schede madri | Intel W2600CR (LGA 2011) Intel 5520/ICH10R, BIOS 50;53;28;112 |
| Intel S5520SCR (LGA 1366) Intel 5520/ICH10R, BIOS 50;53;28;112 | |
| Gigabyte X79-UD5 (LGA 2011) Intel X79 Express, BIOS F9 | |
| Memoria | Crucial 64 GB (8 x 8 GB) DDR3-1600 Registered ECC, MT36KSF1G72PZ-1G6M1HF |
| G.Skill 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR3-1600 Unbuffered, F3-12800CL9Q2-32GBZL | |
| Hard Drive | Intel SSDSA2BZ200G3 200 GB SATA 3 Gb/s (SSD 710) |
| Grafica | AMD FirePro V5900 |
| Alimentatori | Intel DPS-750XB A 750 W |
| Chicony CPB09-003A 1000 W | |
| Software e Driver di sistema | |
| Sistema operativo | Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit |
| DirectX | DirectX 11 |
| Driver grafici | FirePro Driver 8.911.3.1 |
Abbiamo chiesto ad AMD se volesse partecipare in questo articolo, ma ci ha detto che non gioca più in questo settore. L'azienda ha un chipset per workstation (SR5690) che ci avrebbe fatto piacere vedere impegnato in questo ambito. Per ora abbiamo quattro differenti configurazioni che coprono tre generazioni di hardware Intel.
| Benchmark e impostazioni | |
|---|---|
| Codifica audio/video | |
| MainConcept 2.2 | Version: 2.2.0.5440 Video: MPEG-2 to H.264, MainConcept H.264/AVC Codec, 28 sec HDTV 1920x1080 (MPEG-2) Audio: MPEG-2 (44.1 kHz, Two-Channel, 16-Bit, 224 Kb/s) Codec: H.264 Pro, Mode: PAL 50i (25 FPS), Profile: H.264 BD HDMV |
| HandBrake CLI | Version: 0.9.5 Video: Big Buck Bunny (720x480, 23.972 frames) Five Minutes Audio: Dolby Digital, 48 000 Hz, Six-Channel, English to Video: AVC1 Audio1: AC3 Audio2: AAC (High Profile) |
| Lame MP3 | Version: 3.98.3 Audio CD "Terminator II SE", 53 min, convert WAV to MP3 audio format, Command: -b 160 --nores (160 Kb/s) |
| Applicazioni | |
| Adobe After Effects | Version: CS5.5 Tom's Hardware Workload, SD project with three picture-in-picture frames, source video at 720p, Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously |
| Adobe Photoshop | Version: CS5 Tom's Hardware Workload, Radial Blur, Shape Blur, Median, Polar Coordinates filters |
| Adobe Premiere Pro | Version: CS5.5 Paladin Workload, Maximum Render Quality, H.264 Blu-ray profile |
| e-on Software Vue 8 PLE | 1920x1080 landscape render, Global Illumination enabled |
| SolidWorks 2010 | PhotoView 360 Render 01-Lighter Explode.SLDASM (SolidMuse.com) Image Output Resolution: 1920x1080, Render: Preview Quality “Good”, Final Render Quality “Best” |
| Euler3D | CFD simulation over NACA 445.6 aeroelastic test wing at Mach .5 |
| 3ds Max 2012 | Version: 10 x64 Rendering Space Flyby Mentalray (SPECapc_3dsmax9), Frame: 248, Resolution: 1440 x 1080 |
| Blender | Version: 2.62 Syntax blender -b thg.blend -f 1, Resolution: 1920x1080, Anti-Aliasing: 8x, Render: THG.blend frame 1, Cycles renderer and internal tile renderer (9x9) |
| Visual Studio 2010 | Compile Chrome project (1/31/2012) with devenv.com /build Release |
| ABBYY FineReader 10 | Version: 10 Professional Build (10.0.102.82) Read PDF, save to Doc, Source:Political Economy (J. Broadhurst 1842) 111 Pages |
| 7-Zip | Version 9.22 beta LZMA2, Syntax "a -t7z -r -m0=LZMA2 -mx=5", Benchmark: 2010-THG-Workload |
| WinRAR | Version: 4.11 RAR, Syntax "winrar a -r -m3", Benchmark: 2010-THG-Workload |
| WinZip | Version: 16.0 Pro WinZip CLI, Benchmark: 2010-THG-Workload |
| Sintetici | |
| SiSoftware Sandra 2012 SP2 | CPU Test=CPU Arithmetic/Multimedia, Memory Test=Bandwidth Benchmark, Cryptography, Cache Performance |
| Cinebench 11.5 | CPU Test, Built-in benchmark |