Ubuntu 12.04 Virtualization
Intel Core i7-3960X testing with a Intel DX79SI and AMD Radeon HD 6570 512MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6570 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-20-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size
Files/s > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 181.83 |=====================================


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size, No Sync/FSync
Files/s > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 1543.92 |====================================


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size
Files/s > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 181.37 |=====================================


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads
Files/s > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 230.53 |=====================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Compile
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 429.00 |=====================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Initial Create
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 220.11 |=====================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Read Compiled Tree
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 1667.52 |====================================


Dbench 4.0
Client Count: 1
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 300.55 |=====================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 174.62 |=====================================


VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1
vpxenc
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 23.54 |======================================


x264 2011-12-06
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 170.44 |=====================================


GMPbench 0.2
Total Time
GMPbench Score > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 2813.20 |====================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.12
Operation: Blur
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 118 |========================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.12
Operation: HWB Color Space
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 162 |========================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.12
Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 85 |=========================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.12
Operation: Resizing
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 146 |========================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.12
Operation: Sharpen
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 87 |=========================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 1357.24 |====================================


7-Zip Compression 9.20.1
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 25015 |======================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Composite
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 1062.22 |====================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 1941.16 |====================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 307.91 |=====================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 966.39 |=====================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Monte Carlo
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 442.33 |=====================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 1653.30 |====================================


John The Ripper 1.7.9
Test: Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 6562 |=======================================


Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2
Pfam Database Search
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 12.14 |======================================


Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864
Multiple Sequence Alignment
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 4.89 |=======================================


Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.6.3-4
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 42.07 |======================================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 65.71 |======================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 37.37 |======================================


LZMA Compression
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 155.28 |=====================================


Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 6.06 |=======================================


Crafty 23.4
Elapsed Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 90.96 |======================================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 6.80 |=======================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 17.80 |======================================


FFmpeg 0.10
AVI To NTSC VCD
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 12.30 |======================================


N-Queens 1.0
Elapsed Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 256.50 |=====================================


Open FMM Nero2D 2.0.2
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 708.09 |=====================================


Smallpt 1.0
Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 21 |=========================================


OpenSSL 1.0.0e
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 74.98 |======================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: BT.A
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 16396.46 |===================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: CG.B
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 3307.14 |====================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: EP.B
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 305.52 |=====================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: FT.B
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 9102.76 |====================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: IS.C
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 154.57 |=====================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: LU.A
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 15393.08 |===================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: MG.B
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 10158.85 |===================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: SP.A
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 9340.36 |====================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: UA.A
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 73.12 |======================================


NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal . 17638.33 |===================================