Media work is exceedingly common in the workstation space. While a lot of the heavy lifting happens on multi-processor Xeon E5 and Opteron machines, single-socket Xeon E3s are still ample for more mainstream workloads.
TotalCode Studio

Our threaded TotalCode Studio test conveys an approximately 13% improvement moving from the Xeon E3-1275 to the -1275 v3. Of course, if you're working with lots of data, that speed-up can be quite significant in absolute terms.
HandBrake

Getting a Handbrake benchmark to work well across 32+ or more cores is more difficult than running it on a quad-core, Hyper-Threaded CPU, which it's already tuned to utilize.
As we've seen before, the largest speed-up happens from Xeon E3-1275 to -1275 v2, since we get all of the Ivy Bridge improvements, plus 100 MHz and DDR3-1600 support. Haswell maintains a lot of the same specs, but is still tuned for better per-core/clock performance.
iTunes

iTunes is a decidedly consumer-oriented piece of software, and our benchmark is single-threaded. So, the double-digit performance gains we measure going from Sandy Bridge to Haswell are attributable to a small frequency increase, memory bandwidth, and, most significantly, IPC improvements.
LAME

Our LAME results typically mirror iTunes, since both are single-threaded metrics. In this case, there's a little more improvement from Xeon E3-1275 to -1275 v2, while the shift from v2 to v3 conveys IPC enhancements.
- The Intel Xeon E3-1200 Series' Evolution
- Three Generations Of Xeon E3-1275 CPUs
- Supermicro SuperWorkstation 5037A-iL: Our LGA 1155 Test Platform
- Supermicro SuperWorkstation 5038A-iL: Our LGA 1150 Test Platform
- Hardware Setup And Benchmarks
- Results: Synthetics
- Results: Adobe CS6
- Results: Content Creation
- Results: Productivity
- Results: Compression Apps
- Results: Media Encoding
- Power Consumption And Noise
- Xeon E3-1275 v3: A Lot Like Haswell On The Desktop, With Pro Features
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0 HideKeyboard_only , 23 September 2013 13:57Are those 3DMark 11 results correct? A Xeon using on-die graphics can achieve ~11K points in 3DMark 11?