The Xeon E5-2697 v2 is a cpu manufactured by Intel that was released on September 2013. This model has 12 Ivy Bridge-EP cores with HyperThreading, runs at 2700 MHz as base frequency and has a a thermal design power of 130 W.
"Ivy Bridge is the last Intel microarchitecture for which there is official driver support for Windows XP . It is made under 22 nm Tri-Gate transistor (""3D"") technology and is basically a Sandy Bridge shrink. It has PCI Express 3.0 support and RdRand instruction for security tasks."
The benchmark in Mode 0 (FPU) measures cpu performance with non-optimized software. It uses the basic µinstructions from the i386 architecture with the i387 floating point unit. This mode is compatible with all CPUs so it's practical to compare very different CPUs
Monothread
Multithread
Test#1 (Integers)
3.44k
73.17k (x21.3)
Test#2 (FP)
9.54k
230.83k (x24.2)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
4.21k
107.14k (x25.5)
Test#1 (Memory)
3.94k
7.99k (x2.0)
TOTAL
21.13k
419.12k (x19.8)
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
Multithread
Test#1 (Integers)
10.64k
252.69k (x23.7)
Test#2 (FP)
9.53k
238.68k (x25.1)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
4.12k
115.5k (x28.0)
Test#1 (Memory)
3.62k
10.98k (x3.0)
TOTAL
27.91k
617.84k (x22.1)
AVX optimized benchmark
The benchmark in mode II (AVX) is optimized to used 256 bits registers beside the first version of the Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX). The first AVX compatible CPU was released in 2011.
Monothread performance graphics gives the performance vs time. They are useful to measure the time it takes to the CPU to reach the maximum performance.
Usually, CPU's performance will be steady during these tests but if it has a slow frequency strategy, the first samples will show a lower score.
Test#1 (Integers) [% vs time]
Test#2 (FP) [% vs time]
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP) [% vs time]
Test#1 (Memory) [% vs time]
Multithread performance graph
Multithread graphs measure the performance against a heavy load during certain time.
If CPU's TDP doesn't limit the frequency and the machine is properly cooled, performance should remain steady vs time. Otherwise, the performance score will oscillate or decrease over time.