Experimental Tests

Euler 3D Fluid Dynamics


This fluid dynamics simulation is very CPU and memory intensive.  From the benchmark source website:

The benchmark testcase is the AGARD 445.6 aeroelastic test wing. The wing uses a NACA 65A004 airfoil section and has a panel aspect ratio of 1.65, a taper ratio of 0.66, and a 45 degree quarter-chord sweep angle. This AGARD wing was tested at the NASA Langley Research Center in the 16-foot Transonic Dynamics Tunnel and is a standard aeroelastic test case used for validation of unsteady, compressible CFD codes. Figure 1 shows the CFD predicted Mach contours for a freestream Mach number of 0.960.

The benchmark CFD grid contains 1.23 million tetrahedral elements and 223 thousand nodes. The benchmark executable advances the Mach 0.50 AGARD flow solution. Our benchmark score is reported as a CFD cycle frequency in Hertz.

 

Intel Sandy Bridge-E Review - Core i7-3960X and X79 Chipset Tested - Processors 16

 



The Core i7-3960X does a great job in this test and takes the lead in performance as soon as we get past the single threaded results.
 



Microsoft Image Composite Engine


This application takes any number of images and attempts to "stitch" them together to make a single panoramic image.

Intel Sandy Bridge-E Review - Core i7-3960X and X79 Chipset Tested - Processors 17

 

Even though this application doesn’t use nearly enough threads to fully take advantage of the Core i7-3960X, the new Sandy Bridge-E was still able to take the performance lead. 

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