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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MapRef41N93W - Friday, August 7, 2015 - link
Intel users don't have to brag about single threaded performance. Intel CPUs destroy AMD in multi-threaded as well.....SIDESIDE - Sunday, August 9, 2015 - link
Actually, you are a child. As for you throwing gasoline on the fire here in the intel vs. amd debate. THERE IS NO DEBATE, intel is literally twice as efficient and powerful as amd, and why wouldn't it? they are 2twice as old a company and have a lunch budget bigger than amd's R&D budget. amd's are a budget line of processors, so you buy budget cause money is tight, good for you. I run a video company and will gladly pay and extra $150 for twice as fast rendering all year. I hope AMD the best because competition is ALWAYS a good thing. but you, prisonerX clearly have your head up your A**medi03 - Thursday, August 6, 2015 - link
They did that quite a while ago.Artas1984 - Thursday, August 6, 2015 - link
WELL SAID!!!SkOrPn - Tuesday, December 13, 2016 - link
Zen appears to be matching the $1050 i7-6900K. I would say that is far better then Nehalem.mmrezaie - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
Zen needs more than 40% improvement to be competent, but I am hoping as well.mdriftmeyer - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
The word you're looking for is competitive.Peichen - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
Competent, competitive. AMD is neither at the moment so both of you are correct.prisonerX - Thursday, August 6, 2015 - link
Actually AMD is very competent given how much money they have to work with. AMD would be much more competitive too now if it were not for Intel's well documented illegal practices against AMD.It's like a thief robbed your home and you're praising the fact that it's great that you can go to the pawn shop and buy what he stole from you.
mapesdhs - Thursday, August 6, 2015 - link
Wow, blaming years of terrible decisions on Intel... that's a new one. It wasn't Intel that made AMD adopt automated design tools, or ignore the much easier, faster and obvious option of releasing a tweaked 8-core Ph2. AMD has made massive losses year after year. Their debts are awful. Blaming all this on Intel is just nuts.