i5-2500-1.6g-2core-x64 Intel Core i5-2500 testing with a ASRock Z68 Extreme4 and NVIDIA Device 1189 on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i5-2500: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500 @ 3.30GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z68 Extreme4, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB Galaxy Laser GT + 640GB Western Digital WD6400AAKS-0 + 2 x 1500GB Seagate ST31500341AS + 2 x 2000GB Seagate ST2000DL003-9VT1 + 1000GB Hitachi HTS54101, Graphics: NVIDIA Device 1189, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Broadcom NetLink BCM57781 Gigabit PCIe OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-35-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 5.18.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500 . 60.04 |=================================================== FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2500 . 2245.76 |================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2500 . 940.63 |================================================== x264 2012-10-03 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2500 . 27.52 |=================================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2500 . 3244 |==================================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500 . 112.55 |================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500 . 220.12 |================================================== Primesieve 4.0 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500 . 444.65 |================================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500 . 605 |===================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500 . 32.89 |=================================================== WavPack Audio Encoding 4.41.0 WAV To WavPack Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500 . 22.28 |=================================================== POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500 . 1588 |==================================================== Sample Pi Program Phoronix Test Suite v4.2.0 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500 . 8.48 |==================================================== PyBench 2008-08-14 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500 . 4683 |==================================================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2500 . 40293 |===================================================