Server CPU on the desktop

[Borge-san]

Hi,

Where are the benchmarks of server CPU used for desktop applications? Personally, I do a lot of scientific and CAD work, but there are probrably gamers and graphics users who wonder about which CPU to use when looking very broadly.

Are there benchmarks out there, or are there good reasons they aren't made?

Cheers,
Borge-san

 

[Gigantopithecus]

You might find this older article useful, since some of those benchmarks are available on Bench for desktop CPUs.

I'm not particularly familiar with CAD, but "scientific work" is really vague. Some of the scientific software I use is old and single-threaded, some of it is new and highly multi-threaded. Some is constrained by memory bandwidth. In other words, different applications perform best with different hardware. Can you be more specific about which titles you use?

 

[Borge-san]

Well, it's general curiousity about CPUs and there's my use of them. I synthesize FPGA code using Xilinx ISE tools. And I do some heavy calculations using Octave. There's also a fair amount of 2D CAD for circuit boards.

 

[Gigantopithecus]

I'm not familiar with Xilinx ISE tools but I know Octave is not multi-threaded. Its libraries can be but by default the application itself is not. So unless you're making use of multi-threaded libraries, you'd simply want a high IPC, high clockspeed CPU to make it fly. Server CPUs would be less ideal than their desktop counterparts for that, at least.

 

[Ratman6161]

Hi,

Where are the benchmarks of server CPU used for desktop applications? Personally, I do a lot of scientific and CAD work, but there are probrably gamers and graphics users who wonder about which CPU to use when looking very broadly.

Are there benchmarks out there, or are there good reasons they aren't made?

Cheers,
Borge-san

A server class cpu is going to perform the same as its desktop equivalent assuming the same clock speed when running desktop applications. The main difference is things like the ability to use registered ECC RAM. Its basically a waste unless you need that.

 

[Topweasel]

A server class cpu is going to perform the same as its desktop equivalent assuming the same clock speed when running desktop applications. The main difference is things like the ability to use registered ECC RAM. Its basically a waste unless you need that.

Well that and higher QC on the products.