now2 Intel Core i7 720Q testing with a HP 1521 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M on Ubuntu 12.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz: Processor: Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: HP 1521, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 4 x 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS72505, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M, Audio: IDT 92HD75B3X5, Network: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-18-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.10.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 1.0.0, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 640x480 Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz . 9997.34 |=============================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz . 9856.41 |=============================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz . 10650.95 |============================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz . 10504.53 |============================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz . 15.86 |================================================= John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz . 7165000 |=============================================== x264 2012-10-03 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz . 62.15 |================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz . 109 |=================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz . 59 |==================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz . 46 |==================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz . 90 |==================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz . 1136.14 |=============================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz . 9053 |================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz . 77.67 |================================================= Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz . 22.38 |================================================= Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz . 262 |=================================================== Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz . 109.88 |================================================ FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz . 10.16 |================================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz . 22.81 |================================================= FFmpeg 1.0 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz . 30.27 |================================================= POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz . 972 |=================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz . 60.30 |================================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz . 13459.00 |==============================================