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 Without hyperthreading: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 @ 3.70GHz (4 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 1.13.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.6, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.0 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 |============================================== Without hyperthreading . 206.26 |==================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better With hyperthreading .... 9748.65 |============================================= Without hyperthreading . 9395.46 |=========================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better With hyperthreading .... 10.87 |======================================= Without hyperthreading . 13.13 |=============================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better With hyperthreading .... 5.75 |======================================== Without hyperthreading . 6.96 |================================================ John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better With hyperthreading .... 5702 |================================================ Without hyperthreading . 3816 |================================ x264 2012-10-03 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better With hyperthreading .... 152.15 |============================================== Without hyperthreading . 118.80 |==================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better With hyperthreading .... 157 |================================================= Without hyperthreading . 131 |========================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better With hyperthreading .... 120 |================================================= Without hyperthreading . 105 |=========================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better With hyperthreading .... 1603.33 |============================================= Without hyperthreading . 1557.88 |============================================ 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better With hyperthreading .... 21669 |=============================================== Without hyperthreading . 14719 |================================ Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better With hyperthreading .... 28.41 |======================================= Without hyperthreading . 33.92 |=============================================== Without hyperthreading . 33.95 |=============================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better With hyperthreading .... 35.68 |============================================= Without hyperthreading . 36.97 |=============================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better With hyperthreading .... 8.42 |========================================= Without hyperthreading . 9.87 |================================================ Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better With hyperthreading .... 104 |=================================== Without hyperthreading . 146 |================================================= Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better With hyperthreading .... 74.69 |=============================================== Without hyperthreading . 74.70 |=============================================== Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Solitaire Seconds < Lower Is Better With hyperthreading .... 114.84 |============================================== Without hyperthreading . 114.53 |============================================== Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Quasigroup Seconds < Lower Is Better With hyperthreading .... 154.78 |============================================== Without hyperthreading . 154.89 |============================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better With hyperthreading .... 123.13 |============================================== Without hyperthreading . 123.57 |============================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Without hyperthreading . 108.73 |==============================================