FX-6300 Performance Tuning AMD FX-6300 Six-Core testing with a Gigabyte 970A-UD3P and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB on LinuxMint 16 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Defaults 3.5grbo, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9: Processor: AMD FX-6300 Six-Core @ 3.50GHz (6 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte 970A-UD3P, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3 + 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103SJ, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (675/1800MHz), Audio: VIA VT2020, Monitor: HannStar Display HE225DPB, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: LinuxMint 16, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 331.20, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3000x1920 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9: Processor: AMD FX-6300 Six-Core @ 5.00GHz (6 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte 970A-UD3P, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3 + 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103SJ, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (675/1800MHz), Audio: VIA VT2020, Monitor: HannStar Display HE225DPB, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: LinuxMint 16, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 331.20, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3000x1920 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-7-8-8: Processor: AMD FX-6300 Six-Core @ 5.00GHz (6 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte 970A-UD3P, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3 + 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103SJ, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (675/1800MHz), Audio: VIA VT2020, Monitor: HannStar Display HE225DPB, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: LinuxMint 16, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 331.20, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3000x1920 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/1600-7-8-8: Processor: AMD FX-6300 Six-Core @ 5.00GHz (6 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte 970A-UD3P, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3 + 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103SJ, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (675/1800MHz), Audio: VIA VT2020, Monitor: HannStar Display HE225DPB, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: LinuxMint 16, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 331.20, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3000x1920 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/2133-10-12-12: Processor: AMD FX-6300 Six-Core @ 5.00GHz (6 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte 970A-UD3P, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3 + 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103SJ, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (675/1800MHz), Audio: VIA VT2020, Monitor: HannStar Display HE225DPB, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: LinuxMint 16, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 331.20, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3000x1920 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11: Processor: AMD FX-6300 Six-Core @ 4.00GHz (6 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte 970A-UD3P, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3 + 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103SJ, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (675/1800MHz), Audio: VIA VT2020, Monitor: HannStar Display HE225DPB, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: LinuxMint 16, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 331.20, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3000x1920 5GHZ, 250/2750/2750/2000-9-11-11: Processor: AMD FX-6300 Six-Core @ 4.00GHz (6 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte 970A-UD3P, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3 + 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103SJ, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (675/1800MHz), Audio: VIA VT2020, Monitor: HannStar Display HE225DPB, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: LinuxMint 16, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 331.20, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3000x1920 X6@3,7GHz: Processor: AMD Phenom II X6 1100T @ 3.20GHz (6 Cores), Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 640GB Western Digital WD6401AALS-0 + 500GB Hitachi HDP72505, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 896MB (655/1050MHz) OS: Gentoo 2.2, Kernel: 3.13.7 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE, Display Server: X Server 1.15.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.121, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2 + Clang 3.4 + LLVM 3.4 + CUDA 5.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better Defaults 3.5grbo, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 . 17619.27 |=================== 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 ............. 17546.96 |================== 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 17756.97 |=================== 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 19365.57 |==================== 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/2133-10-12-12 .......... 21188.78 |====================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 21632.13 |======================= 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 22773.59 |======================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2750/2000-9-11-11 ........... 21751.74 |======================= X6@3,7GHz .................................. 9937.03 |========== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better Defaults 3.5grbo, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 . 11522.66 |=================== 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 ............. 11592.70 |=================== 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 12128.85 |==================== 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 12684.12 |===================== 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/2133-10-12-12 .......... 13751.14 |====================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 13979.36 |======================= 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 14730.16 |======================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2750/2000-9-11-11 ........... 14007.12 |======================= X6@3,7GHz .................................. 9749.26 |================ Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better Defaults 3.5grbo, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 . 12291.85 |================== 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 ............. 12469.74 |=================== 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 13138.60 |==================== 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 13698.77 |===================== 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/2133-10-12-12 .......... 14790.52 |====================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 15057.14 |======================= 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 15976.78 |======================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2750/2000-9-11-11 ........... 15077.52 |======================= X6@3,7GHz .................................. 11013.68 |================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better Defaults 3.5grbo, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 . 12206.22 |================== 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 ............. 12404.07 |=================== 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 13062.38 |==================== 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 13616.22 |===================== 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/2133-10-12-12 .......... 14718.70 |====================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 14999.70 |======================= 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 15841.72 |======================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2750/2000-9-11-11 ........... 15011.53 |======================= X6@3,7GHz .................................. 10943.55 |================= Botan 1.11.6 Test: AES-256 Mbytes/s > Higher Is Better Defaults 3.5grbo, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 . 4201.64 |==================== 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 ............. 5140.82 |========================= 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 5133.68 |========================= 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 5152.10 |========================= 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/2133-10-12-12 .......... 5145.21 |========================= 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 4106.33 |==================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 4162.14 |==================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2750/2000-9-11-11 ........... 4165.77 |==================== TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2z Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better Defaults 3.5grbo, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 . 93.81 |================== 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 ............. 132.96 |========================= 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 133.36 |========================= 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 138.47 |========================== 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/2133-10-12-12 .......... 137.18 |========================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 51.68 |========== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 108.41 |==================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2750/2000-9-11-11 ........... 109.04 |==================== X6@3,7GHz .................................. 79.66 |=============== x264 2014-01-09 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Defaults 3.5grbo, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 . 110.27 |=================== 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 ............. 151.08 |========================== 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 151.54 |========================== 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 152.76 |========================== 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/2133-10-12-12 .......... 152.46 |========================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 151.24 |========================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 153.04 |========================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2750/2000-9-11-11 ........... 151.79 |========================== X6@3,7GHz .................................. 121.96 |===================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Defaults 3.5grbo, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 . 90 |======================= 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 ............. 114 |============================= 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 114 |============================= 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 115 |============================= 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/2133-10-12-12 .......... 115 |============================= 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 115 |============================= 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 113 |============================ 5GHZ, 250/2750/2750/2000-9-11-11 ........... 116 |============================= X6@3,7GHz .................................. 100 |========================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Defaults 3.5grbo, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 . 52 |==================== 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 ............. 69 |=========================== 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 69 |=========================== 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 69 |=========================== 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/2133-10-12-12 .......... 69 |=========================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 69 |=========================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2750/2000-9-11-11 ........... 69 |=========================== X6@3,7GHz .................................. 78 |============================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Defaults 3.5grbo, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 . 138 |======================= 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 ............. 175 |============================= 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 175 |============================= 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 176 |============================= 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/2133-10-12-12 .......... 175 |============================= 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 176 |============================= 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 174 |============================= 5GHZ, 250/2750/2750/2000-9-11-11 ........... 176 |============================= X6@3,7GHz .................................. 143 |======================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Defaults 3.5grbo, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 . 155 |======================= 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 ............. 191 |============================= 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 192 |============================= 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 192 |============================= 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/2133-10-12-12 .......... 192 |============================= 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 192 |============================= 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 190 |============================= 5GHZ, 250/2750/2750/2000-9-11-11 ........... 191 |============================= X6@3,7GHz .................................. 159 |======================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Defaults 3.5grbo, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 . 77 |========================= 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 ............. 94 |============================== 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 94 |============================== 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 94 |============================== 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/2133-10-12-12 .......... 94 |============================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 94 |============================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 93 |============================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2750/2000-9-11-11 ........... 94 |============================== X6@3,7GHz .................................. 75 |======================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Defaults 3.5grbo, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 . 122.02 |========================== 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 ............. 90.05 |=================== 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 89.26 |=================== 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 87.71 |=================== 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/2133-10-12-12 .......... 88.32 |=================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 88.25 |=================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 88.03 |=================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2750/2000-9-11-11 ........... 87.94 |=================== X6@3,7GHz .................................. 87.67 |=================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Defaults 3.5grbo, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 . 9.72 |============================ 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 ............. 7.09 |==================== 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 6.90 |==================== 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 6.69 |=================== 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/2133-10-12-12 .......... 6.98 |==================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 6.92 |==================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 6.99 |==================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2750/2000-9-11-11 ........... 6.89 |==================== X6@3,7GHz .................................. 8.94 |========================== dcraw RAW To PPM Image Conversion Seconds < Lower Is Better Defaults 3.5grbo, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 . 70.97 |=================== 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 ............. 58.30 |================ 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 58.27 |================ 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 57.80 |================ 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/2133-10-12-12 .......... 57.93 |================ 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 58.26 |================ 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 58.14 |================ 5GHZ, 250/2750/2750/2000-9-11-11 ........... 58.12 |================ X6@3,7GHz .................................. 98.45 |=========================== MandelbulbGPU 1.0pts1 OpenCL Device: GPU Samples/sec > Higher Is Better Defaults 3.5grbo, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 . 9162978.40 |====================== 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 ............. 9168824.30 |====================== 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 9219809.17 |====================== 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 9290562.33 |====================== 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/2133-10-12-12 .......... 9301635.93 |====================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 9339149.00 |====================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 9287009.73 |====================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2750/2000-9-11-11 ........... 9348466.43 |====================== X6@3,7GHz .................................. 5749216.87 |============== Sunflow Rendering System 0.07.2 Global Illumination + Image Synthesis Seconds < Lower Is Better Defaults 3.5grbo, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 . 5.00 |============================ 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-9-9-9 ............. 3.96 |====================== 5GHZ, 200/2000/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 3.93 |====================== 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/1600-7-8-8 ............. 3.82 |===================== 5GHZ, 200/2600/2400/2133-10-12-12 .......... 3.78 |===================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 3.75 |===================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2000/2000-9-11-11 ........... 3.81 |===================== 5GHZ, 250/2750/2750/2000-9-11-11 ........... 3.74 |===================== X6@3,7GHz .................................. 3.71 |=====================