Intel Sandy Bridge E Review

Written by James Gorbold

November 14, 2011 | 16:11

Tags: #comparative #cpu #lga2011 #overclock #overclocking #performance #processor #recommended #sandy-bridge #sandy-bridge-e

Companies: #amd #intel

Euler3D

Website: Euler3D

We also ran the Euler3D HPC benchmark from the CASE lab at Oklahoma State University. This benchmark analyses airflow over a section of the wing of an aircraft in a virtual wind tunnel travelling at Mach 0.5 (half the speed of sound) using CFD (computational fluid dynamic) calculations.

Euler3D presents its results expressed as a CFD cycle frequency in hertz, so a higher number is better.

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Euler3D

  • 2 x Intel Xeon X5680 (3.33GHz/4.37GHz
  • 2 x Intel Xeon X5650 (2.66GHz/3.8GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition (3.3GHz/4.7GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-3930K (3.2GHz/4.7GHz)
  • AMD FX-8150 (3.6GHz)
  • 2 x AMD Opteron 6174
    • 10.175
    • 12.273
    • 9.169
    • 11.736
    • 8.347
    • 10.199
    • 7.723
    • 9.772
    • 3.655
    • 0.000
    • 3.502
    • 0.000
0
3
5.5
8
10.5
13
Sample frequency (higher is better)
  • Stock
  • Overclocked

Read our Performance Analysis for the i7-3960X and i7-3930K

FlamMap

Website: FlamMap

Another HPC application is fire behaviour mapping and analysis. FlamMap is used by several federal government organisations in the USA, and uses a terrain map combined with meteorological data to compute fire behaviour (likelihood, location, intensity and movement) over time.

We run the Dayfire benchmark script, using the small dataset and configure four fires per thread.

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FlamMap

  • 2 x Intel Xeon X5680 (3.33GHz/4.37GHz)
  • 2 x Intel Xeon X5650 (2.66GHz/3.8GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition (3.3GHz/4.7GHz)
  • 2 x AMD Opteron 6174
  • Intel Core i7-3930K (3.2GHz/4.7GHz)
  • AMD FX-8150 (3.6GHz)
    • 103
    • 88
    • 119
    • 0
    • 139
    • 120
    • 142
    • 0
    • 150
    • 121
    • 237
    • 0
0
50
100
150
200
250
Time in Seconds (lower is better)
  • Stock
  • Overclocked

Read our Performance Analysis for the i7-3960X and i7-3930K
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