Geekbench

Intel Skylake-Xeon Chips Posted Outstanding Benchmark Performance; Killer Flagship Now Adds Cores To Slay AMD Naples

The Intel Skylake-Xeon chips go by the official name of Skylake-EP Xeon E5 2699 v5 with the "v5" suffix indicating that it belongs to the Skylake architecture. It is expected to be released in mid-2017 and more details may be given at Computex 2017 where the flagship card may be officially unveiled. One thing seems certain given the Geekbench score is that Intel made a few HPC focused optimizations in the said chips including Advanced Vector Instructions-512 to further improve the floating point calculations and encryption algorithms.