After the smoke from their previous attempt at testing the i7 5960X CPU Phoronix picked up a Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF and have now had a chance to test Haswell-E performance on Linux. The new processor is compared to over a dozen others on machines running Ubuntu and really showed up the competition on benchmarks that took advantage of the 8 cores. Single threaded applications that depended on a higher clock speed proved to be a weakness as the 4790K's higher frequency allowed it to outperform the new Haswell-E processor. Check out the very impressive results of Phoronix's testing right here.
"With the X99 burned-up motherboard problem of last week appearing to be behind us with no further issues when using a completely different X99 motherboard, here's the first extensive look at the Core i7 5960X Haswell-E processor running on Ubuntu Linux."
Here are some more Processor articles from around the web:
- Intel's Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ The Tech Report
- Intel Core i7-5960X Extreme @ Benchmark Reviews
- Intel Core i7-4790K and Core i5-4690K @ X-bit Labs
- Return of the Athlon: AMD Brings Kabini to the desktop @ Bjorn3d
- AMD FX8370E @ Kitguru
- AMD FX-8370E @ eTeknix
While he did say this was not
While he did say this was not a GPU-gamer review et al,it makes me wonder if not having all the graphic overhead of windows makes it look more impressive. I’m really not terribly concerned about Aero and all that shit, but if Linux is going to go more mainstream, this will have to be addressed.
But yeah- this is what I would have expected out of this CPU in a more straight-up fight.
At least with Linux, the user
At least with Linux, the user can strip out any, unnecessary for game performance, services, for a light weight gaming focused OS, unlike windows, where the bloat comes with the territory. Steam OS has that advantage, and the user can dual boot it with other OSs, if the user wants to do more general purpose tasks, or they could add more functionality to Steam OS(Debian based). There are more windows desktop like desktop environments for Linux, plenty to choose from. It’s the un-removable unnecessary bloat on windows, and if Haswell-E is running less bloat, it can be running more gaming, that will be one advantage for Linux. Getting the drivers(mantle, etc., as well as opneGL, others) optimized under Linux is a work in progress, but what driver package is not in a constant improvement/upgrade cycle on any OSs, that is a never ending task.