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Pentium B980 vs Xeon E5-2651 v2


Description
The B980 is based on Sandy Bridge architecture while the E5-2651 v2 is based on Ivy Bridge.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the B980 gets a score of 31.8 k points while the E5-2651 v2 gets 415 k points.

Summarizing, the E5-2651 v2 is 13.1 times faster than the B980. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
206a7
306e4
Core
Sandy Bridge
Ivy Bridge-EP
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.4 GHz
1.8 GHz
Boost frecuency
2.4 GHz
2.2 GHz
Socket
PGA 988B
LGA 2011
Cores/Threads
2/2
12/24
TDP
35 W
W
Cache L1 (d+i)
2x32+2x32 kB
12x32+12x32 kB
Cache L2
2x256 kB
12x256 kB
Cache L3
2048 kB
30720 kB
Date
September 2012
October 2013
Mean monothread perf.
18.12k points
17.75k points
Mean multithread perf.
31.77k points
426.18k points

SSE3 optimized benchmark
The benchmark in mode I (SSE) is optimized for the use of SIMD instructions with 128 bits register and the SSE set up to version 3. Nearly every modern CPU has support for this mode.
Monothread
B980
E5-2651 v2
Test#1 (Integers)
7.2k
6.75k (x0.94)
Test#2 (FP)
5.75k
6.05k (x1.05)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
2.87k
2.61k (x0.91)
Test#1 (Memory)
2.3k
2.26k (x0.98)
TOTAL
18.12k
17.68k (x0.98)

Multithread

B980

E5-2651 v2
Test#1 (Integers)
13.39k
168.18k (x12.56)
Test#2 (FP)
10.58k
159.6k (x15.09)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.22k
77.04k (x14.76)
Test#1 (Memory)
2.58k
10.19k (x3.95)
TOTAL
31.77k
415.01k (x13.06)

Performance/W
B980
E5-2651 v2
Test#1 (Integers)
383 points/W