Core i7 5960X Haswell-E Ubuntu Linux Intel Core i7-5960X testing with a Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF and Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i7 5960X: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Haswell-E DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB, Audio: Intel Wellsburg HD Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.2, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel (git-6cd0dbc 2014-08-29 trusty-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2 + Clang 3.5.0-+rc4-1~gd~t, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Intel Core i7 4930K @4.2Ghz: Processor: Intel Core i7-4930K @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X79-UD3, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v2/Xeon, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 5 x 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARX-00P + 512GB Samsung SSD 840 + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EZRX-00D + 256GB M4-CT256M4SSD2, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT, Audio: Realtek ALC898, Network: Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-35-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, OpenGL: 1.3 Mesa 4.0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 5960X ......... 5515 |======================================== Intel Core i7 4930K @4.2Ghz . 5954 |=========================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 5960X ......... 27316.04 |====================================== Intel Core i7 4930K @4.2Ghz . 27958.77 |======================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 5960X ......... 26735.20 |====================================== Intel Core i7 4930K @4.2Ghz . 27574.71 |======================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 5960X ......... 29444.66 |===================================== Intel Core i7 4930K @4.2Ghz . 31392.42 |======================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 5960X ......... 29062.29 |==================================== Intel Core i7 4930K @4.2Ghz . 31099.37 |======================================= CLOMP 3.3 Static OMP Speedup Speedup > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 5960X ......... 5.61 |======================================= Intel Core i7 4930K @4.2Ghz . 6.12 |=========================================== BLAKE2 20130131 Phoronix Test Suite v5.4.0m0 Cycles Per Byte < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 5960X ......... 5.06 |===================================== Intel Core i7 4930K @4.2Ghz . 5.90 |=========================================== Gcrypt Library 1.4.4 CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher Microseconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 5960X ......... 1917 |========================================== Intel Core i7 4930K @4.2Ghz . 1980 |=========================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 5960X ......... 11750 |========================================== Intel Core i7 4930K @4.2Ghz . 10246 |===================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 5960X ......... 18205333 |======================================= Intel Core i7 4930K @4.2Ghz . 17196333 |===================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 5960X ......... 148402 |========================================= Intel Core i7 4930K @4.2Ghz . 142774 |======================================= x264 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 5960X ......... 310.08 |========================================= Intel Core i7 4930K @4.2Ghz . 258.21 |================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 5960X ......... 38204 |========================================== Intel Core i7 4930K @4.2Ghz . 33890 |===================================== Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 5960X ......... 23.58 |========================================= Intel Core i7 4930K @4.2Ghz . 23.95 |========================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 5960X ......... 43.23 |================================== Intel Core i7 4930K @4.2Ghz . 53.72 |========================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 5960X ......... 17.24 |====================================== Intel Core i7 4930K @4.2Ghz . 19.27 |========================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 5960X ......... 9.60 |========================= Intel Core i7 4930K @4.2Ghz . 16.26 |========================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 5960X ......... 3.77 |==================================== Intel Core i7 4930K @4.2Ghz . 4.51 |=========================================== Primesieve 5.0 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 5960X ......... 46.83 |======================================= Intel Core i7 4930K @4.2Ghz . 50.53 |========================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 5960X ......... 13 |=========== Intel Core i7 4930K @4.2Ghz . 51 |============================================= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 5960X ......... 5.22 |=========================================== Intel Core i7 4930K @4.2Ghz . 4.52 |===================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 5960X ......... 14.09 |========================================== Intel Core i7 4930K @4.2Ghz . 12.07 |==================================== FFmpeg 2.1.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 5960X ......... 11.58 |=============================== Intel Core i7 4930K @4.2Ghz . 15.89 |==========================================