HEXUS Platform Tests
picCOLOR v4.0
We use the quad-threaded (not all sub tests) 64-bit native version of picCOLOR v4.0, to highlight performance across a quartet of cores. Remember that we're benchmarking on XP Professional x64 Edition exclusively for this subset of tests.
Last-gen Xeon had no chance of keeping up with Opteron in this image processing test, so a 25% performance increase over the 285s, by the 5160s, is something of a revelation. Core at work, simple as.
Analysis of the sub test results show the FP-heavy routines as where Woodcrest is winning heaviest.
Cinebench 9.5
Another native 64-bit binary, the latest version of Cinebench is a multi-threaded software 3D renderer, and we use the MT CPU bench for our testing.
Xeon 5160 beats Opteron 285 again, turning around the result seen with Opteron versus the last generation. Interestingly, this result is indicative of performance available on a certain, erm, quad-core Intel processor, sat in a single socket.
Kribibench v1.1
Another win vs Opteron 285, but this time only by just over 5%. Not remarkable on its own perhaps, but it's a turnaround compared to the last gen, where 2.4GHz dual-core Opteron was 30% or so faster than 2.8GHz Paxville Xeon DP.
Onto our DCC-biased tests.
