Yesterday I've installed my two new R630 servers with dual Xeon E5-2640 v3's. As always I've run a benchmark to see how much these servers improve against previous generation of servers. So I run Cinebench 11.5 on my new and old servers. The multi threaded performance of the new machine is fine, but the single threaded performance is really strange. I've created a vm with 4 vcpus. This are the results on different platforms:
Host: 1 (Intel Xeon E5-2620 @ 2.4GHz)
Other vm's: none
Windows 7 x64 - 4 vCPU
Cinebench 11.5 multi cpu: 3.35
single cpu 0.85
Host: 2 (Intel Xeon E5-2630 V2 @ 2.3GHz)
Other vm's: none
Windows 7 x64 - 4 vCPU
Cinebench 11.5 multi cpu: 4.11
single cpu: 1.04
Host: 3 (Intel Xeon E5-2640 V3 @ 2.6GHz)
Other vm's: none
Windows 7 x64 - 4 vCPU
Cinebench 11.5 multi cpu: 4.93
single cpu: 0.56
The BIOS settings as well as the vSphere settings are set to high performance. CPU-z is also showing the correct cpu speed (2.6GHz). The strangest thing is the multifactor score which is more than 8, although the physical cores are only four times as much....
Any thoughts about this one?