hyperthread-test Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 testing with a Gigabyte H77M-D3H and AMD Radeon HD 6800 1024MB on archlinux rolling via the Phoronix Test Suite. With hyperthreading: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 @ 3.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte H77M-D3H, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/Ivy, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 64GB M4-CT064M4SSD2 + 500GB Western Digital WD5000BPVT-0 + 1500GB Seagate ST31500541AS, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6800 1024MB (775/1000MHz), Audio: Intel 7 /C210, Monitor: Acer G215HV, Network: Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit OS: archlinux rolling, Kernel: 3.6.1-cmr (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.12.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.6, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7.2 + Clang 3.1 + LLVM 3.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better With hyperthreading . 266.86 |================================================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better With hyperthreading . 9748.65 |================================================ Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better With hyperthreading . 10.87 |================================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better With hyperthreading . 5.75 |=================================================== John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better With hyperthreading . 5702 |=================================================== x264 2012-10-03 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better With hyperthreading . 152.15 |================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better With hyperthreading . 157 |==================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better With hyperthreading . 120 |==================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better With hyperthreading . 1603.33 |================================================ 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better With hyperthreading . 21669 |================================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better With hyperthreading . 28.41 |================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better With hyperthreading . 35.68 |================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better With hyperthreading . 8.42 |=================================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better With hyperthreading . 104 |==================================================== Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better With hyperthreading . 74.69 |================================================== Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Solitaire Seconds < Lower Is Better With hyperthreading . 114.84 |================================================= Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Quasigroup Seconds < Lower Is Better With hyperthreading . 154.78 |================================================= OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better With hyperthreading . 123.13 |=================================================