Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 & E5-2687W v3 Compared To The Core i7 5960X On Linux

The first test up was Parboil with an OpenMP workload that's able to utilize all 20 CPU threads of the E5-2687W v3 processor. The E5-1680 v3 was about 5% faster than the i7-5960X and the E5-2687W v3 was 14% faster over the Haswell-E CPU.

While the E5-2687W v3 has a 160 Watt TDP, the CPU temperature wasn't outrageous with the Noctua heatsink fan as the cooler.

Here's some other scientific/compute metrics for the three CPUs:

With the Rodinia HPC benchmark especially, it was loving the number of cores/threads offered by the E5-2687W v3 in this single-socket configuration. Of course on the desktop front, most users won't have software to take advantage of 16~20 threads... Nor be able to afford a $2000+ processor.