Xeon gaming database

[all things hardware]

Hey all, I am looking to create a database here on the forum about the gaming performance of xeons for those of use who do tasks which benefit from a high core count and also game as well. I am wanting to have an emphasis on xeons at 350 or below. Thanks!

 

P.S. some xeon benchmarks that would be nice, e5 2680/2690, e5 2690 v2, e5 2697 v2, and e5 2695 v2.

[MedievalMatt]

2 minutes ago, all things hardware said:

Hey all, I am looking to create a database here on the forum about the gaming performance of xeons for those of use who do tasks which benefit from a high core count and also game as well. I am wanting to have an emphasis on xeons at 350 or below. Thanks!

 

P.S. some xeon benchmarks that would be nice, e5 2680/2690, e5 2690 v2, e5 2697 v2, and e5 2695 v2.

Xeons are essentially consumer chips with ECC support and more cores with lower clock speeds.

 

so, a haswell 4 core 8 thread Xeon will perform the same as a 4 core 8 thread haswell i7 if the clocks are the same.

[all things hardware]

47 minutes ago, MedievalMatt said:

Xeons are essentially consumer chips with ECC support and more cores with lower clock speeds.

 

so, a haswell 4 core 8 thread Xeon will perform the same as a 4 core 8 thread haswell i7 if the clocks are the same.

What about a 12 core e5 2697 v2, what chip would that be the same as?

[MedievalMatt]

13 minutes ago, all things hardware said:

What about a 12 core e5 2697 v2, what chip would that be the same as?

Thats ivy Bridge.  so, up to 4 cores 8 threads performance will be worse, by probably 20-30% than an i7 - 3770.

 

Some Games will take advantage of more, and so performance will be better.  But i wouldnt count on the high core count helping out all the much beyond 6 cores 12 threads.

 

So, on balance its probably equal to a 3770 on average.

[bimmerman]

One other facet is that the majority of Xeons aren't overclockable, so unless you really can benefit from the large number of cores/threads on the models that do NOT have consumer variants, the gaming performance can be best summed up as 'adequate, probably', due to the relatively slow clock speeds.

 

If you're talking an OC-able Xeon (Eg X5675, W3680, I think E3-1610?), performance is good for lower-mid-range nowadays, depending on GPU. They're not high end bleeding edge machines, but they can play games perfectly fine. Unless you're afflicted by 300fps-itis, in which case, you probably aren't looking to game on a Xeon anyway.

 

If you want a relatively budget high core / thread count machine, and gaming performance is important, a 1920X or 2700X is a better buy in many cases. If gaming isn't important, then sure, use any Xeon.

[all things hardware]

On 8/31/2018 at 1:32 PM, MedievalMatt said:

Thats ivy Bridge.  so, up to 4 cores 8 threads performance will be worse, by probably 20-30% than an i7 - 3770.

 

Some Games will take advantage of more, and so performance will be better.  But i wouldnt count on the high core count helping out all the much beyond 6 cores 12 threads.

 

So, on balance its probably equal to a 3770 on average.

Ah ok, so does that apply to all server chips on the same architecture as an i7 (so e5 2680 or an e3 or another xeon cpu) and would it heavily be impacted by clock speeds?

[all things hardware]

22 hours ago, bimmerman said:

One other facet is that the majority of Xeons aren't overclockable, so unless you really can benefit from the large number of cores/threads on the models that do NOT have consumer variants, the gaming performance can be best summed up as 'adequate, probably', due to the relatively slow clock speeds.

 

If you're talking an OC-able Xeon (Eg X5675, W3680, I think E3-1610?), performance is good for lower-mid-range nowadays, depending on GPU. They're not high end bleeding edge machines, but they can play games perfectly fine. Unless you're afflicted by 300fps-itis, in which case, you probably aren't looking to game on a Xeon anyway.

 

If you want a relatively budget high core / thread count machine, and gaming performance is important, a 1920X or 2700X is a better buy in many cases. If gaming isn't important, then sure, use any Xeon.

You can do some decent bclock oc on lga 2011 (on LTT they got an e5 to oc 600mhz with bclock) it is true that they won't perform as well as like a 7700k however at 1440p or 4k they are great.

[MedievalMatt]

On 9/1/2018 at 2:44 PM, all things hardware said:

Ah ok, so does that apply to all server chips on the same architecture as an i7 (so e5 2680 or an e3 or another xeon cpu) and would it heavily be impacted by clock speeds?

pretty much.  Clock speed is important.  Especially when comparing two like architectures to each other.

 

That said, a modern Xeon-W 8 thread CPU would curb stomp somethign like a 3rd gen i7.  But thats only down to architecture improvements. Clock speeds are way lower on the Xeon side.

[all things hardware]

On 9/3/2018 at 6:43 AM, MedievalMatt said:

pretty much.  Clock speed is important.  Especially when comparing two like architectures to each other.

 

That said, a modern Xeon-W 8 thread CPU would curb stomp somethign like a 3rd gen i7.  But thats only down to architecture improvements. Clock speeds are way lower on the Xeon side.

ok nice, thanks! btw, how do you close a thread? 

[J_Man1990]

I'M running a w3680 4c8t xeon on an hp z400 motherboard and overclocked to 4ghz using throttle stop. There's a thread over on techpowerup  HERE talking about unlocked xeons and overclocking oem motherboards using throttle stop. Its a really good way to build a killer budget gaming rig