The Intel 6th Gen Skylake Review: Core i7-6700K and i5-6600K Tested
by Ian Cutress on August 5, 2015 8:00 AM ESTWhat You Can Buy: Linux Performance
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.
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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Beaver M. - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
An i7-6700k or faster?How do you know?
Refuge - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
lol everything was wasted on this chip...ingwe - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
Now for the new Surface Pro and Macbook Pro to drop. I think those will be really compelling. Choosing will be difficult.JeremyInNZ - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
I see what you did there... Not falling for the MS vs Apple war you hope to start with that post :pingwe - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
Haha. If only I was that clever. I do love watching fanboys fight.I do actually think both will be really compelling though--obviously for very difference reasons.
ingwe - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
*different. Edit buttonBubbaJoe TBoneMalone - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
Thank you to AnandTech for the Skylake review but....no mention of Skylake-E or its release date. Guess we have to wait next year.A5 - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
The E parts will be out when the Skylake Xeons are done. Like you said, probably next year.BubbaJoe TBoneMalone - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
Thank you to A5 for your reply.milkod2001 - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
next year