stock Intel Core i5-3570K testing with a ASRock Z77 Pro4 and Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6850 1024MB on LinuxMint 17.2 via the Phoronix Test Suite. i5+6870: Processor: Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Pro4, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 840 + 2 x 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103SJ, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6850 1024MB, Audio: Intel 7 /C210, Monitor: LG IPS FULLHD + ASUS VH232H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: LinuxMint 17.2, Kernel: 3.16.0-38-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 2.6.11, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.3.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.1.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: SquashFS, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better i5+6870 . 37.07 |============================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.18-rc6 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better i5+6870 . 160.72 |============================================================= Timed MPlayer Compilation 1.0-rc3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better i5+6870 . 58.23 |==============================================================