The Performance Impact Of Turbo Boost On Linux Written by Michael Larabel in Intel on 28 February 2016 at 10:25 AM EST. 21 Comments After the tests this weekend of Intel Hyper Threading and core scaling with the new Intel Xeon E3 "Skylake" processor, I proceeded to do some Turbo Boost benchmarking. Namely, I ran a set of open-source Linux benchmarks when the Xeon E3 1280 v5 was running in its defa