pour elie Intel Core i5-3570K testing with a Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H and Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core on Ubuntu 12.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 1st: Processor: Intel Core i5-3570K @ 4.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-9YN1 + 256GB SAMSUNG SSD 830, Graphics: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core, Audio: Realtek ALC898, Monitor: IPS226, Network: Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection + Atheros AR9462 Wireless OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-19-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.6.1, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: intel 2.20.9, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.0, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 World of Padman 1.2 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 1st . 183.27 |================================================================= Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better 1st . 16880.70 |=============================================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better 1st . 16462.72 |=============================================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better 1st . 18285.05 |=============================================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better 1st . 17916.45 |=============================================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better 1st . 5.68 |=================================================================== John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better 1st . 22855667 |=============================================================== TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2w Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better 1st . 124.52 |================================================================= x264 2012-10-03 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 1st . 143.16 |================================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 1st . 219 |==================================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 1st . 137 |==================================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 1st . 63 |===================================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 1st . 164 |==================================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better 1st . 2032.52 |================================================================ 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better 1st . 17930 |================================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better 1st . 28.88 |================================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better 1st . 8.38 |=================================================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better 1st . 98 |===================================================================== Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better 1st . 59.55 |================================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better 1st . 4.39 |=================================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better 1st . 10.66 |================================================================== FFmpeg 1.0 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better 1st . 11.92 |================================================================== POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better 1st . 521 |==================================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better 1st . 158.13 |================================================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better 1st . 83.42 |================================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better 1st . 34176.22 |===============================================================