Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 & E5-2687W v3 Compared To The Core i7 5960X On Linux
The Xeon CPUs run marginally faster for video encoding.
When it comes to the performance-per-Watt, the Xeon E5-2687W v3 was inching ahead of the i7-5960X while the E5-1680 v3 had fallen a step behind.
The E5-2687W v3 jumps ahead of the others when it comes to x264 video encoding performance.