Intel Xeon E3 1245 v5 Linux Benchmarks

While the assortment of comparison processors for this Linux review were limited due to the number of comparable processors in my possession (unfortunately all of these Skylake CPUs so far I've had to purchase due to no SKL review samples yet from Intel Corp; you can help change that by joining Phoronix Premium to allow for more resources / Linux hardware tests), overall the Xeon E3 1245 v5 is running great. For just a few dollars more than the Core i5 6600K that comes clocked at the same frequency, this workstation/server processor adds in Hyper Threading, 8MB of cache rather than 6MB, and its TDP is 80 Watts rather than 91 Watts. The HD Graphics P530 were found to be comparable to that of the HD Graphics 530 from the consumer Core CPUs. The only potential downside if you're an enthusiast considering the E3-1245 v5, the Skylake Xeon processors require a motherboard with C232/C236 chipset rather than past generations like Haswell where you could fit one of these processors into a consumer motherboard. At the time of writing, the C236 motherboards still command a large premium over the starting price of Z170 motherboards. To see the E3-1245 v5 compared to more Intel/AMD systems, see the earlier Skylake Xeon build article.

Via the Phoronix Test Suite you can see how your own Linux system(s) compare to the results published in this article. After installing the Phoronix Test Suite, simply run phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1512185-GA-XEONBASE353 to carry out your own fully-automated, side-by-side performance comparison against the data found in this article.

Beginning over the next few days, you'll be able to find daily benchmarks of this Supermicro + Xeon E3-1245 v5 Skylake system running Clear Linux over on OpenBenchmarking.org. If you are interested in this Xeon processor, it can be found for just over $300 on Amazon.