The Intel Core i9-7980XE and Core i9-7960X CPU Review Part 1: Workstation
by Ian Cutress on September 25, 2017 3:01 AM ESTBenchmarking Performance: CPU Office Tests
The office programs we use for benchmarking aren't specific programs per-se, but industry standard tests that hold weight with professionals. The goal of these tests is to use an array of software and techniques that a typical office user might encounter, such as video conferencing, document editing, architectural modelling, and so on and so forth.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
Chromium Compile (v56)
Our new compilation test uses Windows 10 Pro, VS Community 2015.3 with the Win10 SDK to combile a nightly build of Chromium. We've fixed the test for a build in late March 2017, and we run a fresh full compile in our test. Compilation is the typical example given of a variable threaded workload - some of the compile and linking is linear, whereas other parts are multithreaded.
PCMark8: link
Despite originally coming out in 2008/2009, Futuremark has maintained PCMark8 to remain relevant in 2017. On the scale of complicated tasks, PCMark focuses more on the low-to-mid range of professional workloads, making it a good indicator for what people consider 'office' work. We run the benchmark from the commandline in 'conventional' mode, meaning C++ over OpenCL, to remove the graphics card from the equation and focus purely on the CPU. PCMark8 offers Home, Work and Creative workloads, with some software tests shared and others unique to each benchmark set.
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Notmyusualid - Tuesday, September 26, 2017 - link
@ vladxTry telling that to the fanbios here...
For some of us, price is not the main consideration.
HStewart - Monday, September 25, 2017 - link
I have a big issue with latest performance results - especially dealing with multi-core performance. What is most important is single core performance - this primary because real applications and not benchmark application use the primary thread more that secondary threads. Yes the secondary threads do help in calculations and such - but most important especially in graphical application is using the primary thread. Plus quality is important - I not sure AMD is going to last in this world - because they seem to have a very limited focus.HStewart - Monday, September 25, 2017 - link
Especially GeekBench - I don't trust it all - realistically can an ARM processor beat huge Xeon processor. Give me break - lets be realistic.Krysto - Monday, September 25, 2017 - link
Intel is failing hard at competing, if it can only release chips that cost twice as much as AMD's for only a slight improvement in performance.vladx - Tuesday, September 26, 2017 - link
On the contrary, these chips will sell very well since they aren't geared towards "prosumers" but big businesses where every minute wasted could mean thousands $$ lost.willis936 - Monday, September 25, 2017 - link
That performance ler dollar page is amazing. I could look at graphs like that comparing all types of compinents and configurations against different workloads all day.Judas_g0at - Monday, September 25, 2017 - link
I didn't see anything about temp and thermals. For 2k, does Intel give you crappy thermal compound, or solder?Spunjji - Monday, September 25, 2017 - link
Spoiler alert: I hope you like cleaning toothpaste off your $1999 CPU.shabby - Monday, September 25, 2017 - link
Lol platform pcie lanes, good one intel, how many does threadripper have in this case?DanNeely - Monday, September 25, 2017 - link
TR has 60 platform PCIe3 lanes, 68 total if you count the 8 half speed PCIe2 lanes on the x399 chipset.