The Intel Broadwell Desktop Review: Core i7-5775C and Core i5-5675C Tested (Part 1)
by Ian Cutress on June 2, 2015 7:45 AM ESTProfessional Performance: Linux
Built around several freely available benchmarks for Linux, Linux-Bench is a project spearheaded by Patrick at ServeTheHome to streamline about a dozen of these tests in a single neat package run via a set of three commands using an Ubuntu 11.04 LiveCD. These tests include fluid dynamics used by NASA, ray-tracing, OpenSSL, molecular modeling, and a scalable data structure server for web deployments. We run Linux-Bench and have chosen to report a select few of the tests that rely on CPU and DRAM speed.
Due to our limited testing time and other issues, only the i7-5775C was processed in our Linux tests. These should be updated for Part 2.
C-Ray: link
C-Ray is a simple ray-tracing program that focuses almost exclusively on processor performance rather than DRAM access. The test in Linux-Bench renders a heavy complex scene offering a large scalable scenario.
NAMD, Scalable Molecular Dynamics: link
Developed by the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, NAMD is a set of parallel molecular dynamics codes for extreme parallelization up to and beyond 200,000 cores. The reference paper detailing NAMD has over 4000 citations, and our testing runs a small simulation where the calculation steps per unit time is the output vector.
NPB, Fluid Dynamics: link
Aside from LINPACK, there are many other ways to benchmark supercomputers in terms of how effective they are for various types of mathematical processes. The NAS Parallel Benchmarks (NPB) are a set of small programs originally designed for NASA to test their supercomputers in terms of fluid dynamics simulations, useful for airflow reactions and design.
Redis: link
Many of the online applications rely on key-value caches and data structure servers to operate. Redis is an open-source, scalable web technology with a b developer base, but also relies heavily on memory bandwidth as well as CPU performance.
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ES_Revenge - Monday, July 13, 2015 - link
So over a month later...this seems like it was quite the paper launch. Not only have we not seen "part 2" of this review (with OC results), it doesn't seem like you can actually *buy* one of the CPUs anywhere.Best I seem to have found is Amazon but they show it's not even going to be in stock until mid-August! Won't Skylake be around by then? Intel really doesn't care about Broadwell I guess--you have to wonder why they even bothered.
tania420 - Thursday, July 30, 2015 - link
I like this. Intel always create dynamical product. For Intel lover here i7-4790k Reviews visit <a herf=” http://www.xiontech.net/”>here</a>tania420 - Thursday, July 30, 2015 - link
I agree, the obvious thing to do is use the price as it is during the time the article was written. For Intel i7-4790k reviews visit <a href=” http://www.xiontech.net/”> here</a>Gadgety - Sunday, August 2, 2015 - link
So I got the A8-7600 for $93 including shipping and 25% sales tax for the kids. The i5-5675C is $348 with shipping and the same sales tax. With the i5 the gaind would be 7-9 fps in GTA V, 6fps in GRID Autosport, and about 0% in Battlefield4 (A8-7600 34fps, 1920x1080, medium detail, with Mantle 14.6), for an additional $255, that is.felipetga - Wednesday, August 30, 2017 - link
Would it work on a H81 chipset motherboard?yeeeeman - Saturday, March 14, 2020 - link
Well, who would've known at that time of the review (year 2015) that this slow to bring-up process, that is 14nm will be in service so many years and still is today, year 2020.I think Intel should've reconsidered their plans for 10nm, after seeing how slow 14nm ramped, but probably management was somewhat communistic with the engineers.