Intel V8 Media Creation Platform Benchmarked - Dual Sockets - Dual Xeon

It was at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show that we were first exposed to an Intel demo machine dubbed the ‘ V8′ . Intel wouldn’t label the machine as a direct response to the QuadFX platform by AMD, but they did want to stress the point that enthusiasts could have a dual-socket, eight-core Intel powered machine today if they went with a workstation platform.

At the heart of the ‘V8′ machine were two quad-core Xeon processors, a dual-socket S5000XVN motherboard powered by the Intel 5000X-series chipset, and 4GB of RAM. No doubt a powerful system. But there was only so much Intel could convey in a ‘quick and dirty’ demo. To assess the true power and capabilities of the ‘V8′, we’d have to gain unfettered access to the machine and put it through its paces on our own terms and with our own suite of benchmarks. And that’s exactly what we’ve done.

Armed with a pair of quad-core, 3.0GHz Xeon X5365 processors, 4GB worth of Samsung FB-DIMMs, and the very same S5000XVN motherboard, we assembled a full system and compared its performance to a dual Athlon 64 FX-74 powered QuadFX rig and a Core 2 Extreme QX6800 powered system…

HotHardware