Intel Core i5 Benchmarking Intel Core i5 520M testing with a Apple Mac-F22586C8 and Intel Core IGP 256MB on Ubuntu 12.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i5: Processor: Intel Core i5 520M @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-F22586C8, Chipset: Intel Core DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ ILITY2, Graphics: Intel Core IGP 256MB, Audio: Cirrus Logic CS4206, Monitor: Color LCD, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit PCIe + Broadcom BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-14-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: intel 2.20.7, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 8.1-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1440x900 Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5 . 42.66 |======================================================== John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5 . 1798 |========================================================= John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5 . 5796667 |====================================================== John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5 . 26716 |======================================================== VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5 . 12.85 |======================================================== x264 2012-10-03 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5 . 48.21 |======================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5 . 67 |=========================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5 . 38 |=========================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5 . 83 |=========================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5 . 106 |========================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5 . 51 |=========================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5 . 30.47 |======================================================== Opus Codec Encoding 1.0.1 WAV, Opus Encode, Opus Decode Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5 . 14.23 |======================================================== FFmpeg 1.0 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5 . 29.14 |======================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5 . 64.47 |========================================================