Intel Core i7 5960X “Haswell-E” Processor Review

OpenCL Benchmarks – Compubench and Luxmark

Compubench CL

CompuBench is a unified performance benchmarking tool that gives realistic feedback on the performance of various compute API implementations used for parallel programming of heterogeneous systems. Based on CLBenchmark, the first professional OpenCL benchmark on the market, it compares CPUs, GPUs and accelerators of desktop and mobile devices by their compute performance characteristics. Download here.

Compubench would not run with the Core i7 5960x, we think a compatibility issue with Intel’s old OpenCL 1.2 driver and this new CPU is to blame.

Luxmark

LuxMark is a OpenCL benchmark tool. The idea for the program was conceived in 2009 by Jean-Francois ‘Jromang’ Romang. The idea was quite simple, wrap SLG inside an easy to use graphical user interface and use it as a benchmark for OpenCL. Download here.