surfacant 123 AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core testing with a Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 and AMD Radeon HD 3000 512MB on Ubuntu 12.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. kewl: Processor: AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3, Chipset: AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB 9750-4i DISK, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 3000 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: VX2450, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Atheros AR922X Wireless OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.6.2-030602-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.6.1, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.99.99, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better kewl . 79.66 |================================================================= FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better kewl . 191.00 |================================================================ Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better kewl . 512.37 |================================================================ Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better kewl . 490.79 |================================================================ Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better kewl . 533.81 |================================================================ Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better kewl . 282.62 |================================================================ IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better kewl . 3541.79 |=============================================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better kewl . 474.96 |================================================================ Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better kewl . 8198.49 |=============================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better kewl . 47.65 |================================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better kewl . 600.63 |================================================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better kewl . 227.72 |================================================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better kewl . 1295.00 |=============================================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better kewl . 11.98 |================================================================= Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better kewl . 14.59 |================================================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better kewl . 2743.03 |=============================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better kewl . 16460.78 |==============================================================