The Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 is a server processor of the Xeon E3 (Skylake-S) generation, launched on Oct 19th, 2015. It comes with 4 cores and 8 threads, clocked at 3700 MHz and consumes up to 80 Watts.
Blender is the most popular 3D content creation software. It has its own Benchmark, which is widely used to determining the rendering performance of processors and graphics cards. Benchmark measures the time needed to render bmw27 scene.