Core i5 6500 Ubuntu 15.10 Linux Intel Core i5-3470 testing with a ASUS P8Z77-M and XFX AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2048MB on Arch Linux via the Phoronix Test Suite. Core i5 6500 Linux: Processor: Intel Core i5-6500 @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170M-D3H-CF, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3, Graphics: Intel Sky Lake (1050MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-16-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x800 i5-3470 Arch 4.2.3-1: Processor: Intel Core i5-3470 @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-M, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB Crucial_CT256MX1 + 3001GB Seagate ST3000DM001-1CH1 + 128GB SanDisk SDSSDP12 + 3001GB Western Digital WD30EZRX-00S + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EADS-22M, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: DELL U2713HM, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 4.2.3-1-zen (x86_64), OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (git-4a168ad) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.0 + Clang 3.8.0 (SVN 249573) + LLVM 3.8.0svn, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 run in the background against light use: Processor: Intel Core i5-3470 @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-M, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB Crucial_CT256MX1 + 3001GB Seagate ST3000DM001-1CH1 + 128GB SanDisk SDSSDP12 + 3001GB Western Digital WD30EZRX-00S + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EADS-22M, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: DELL U2713HM, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 4.2.3-1-zen (x86_64), OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (git-4a168ad) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.0 + Clang 3.8.0 (SVN 249573) + LLVM 3.8.0svn, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 6500 Linux ...................... 254.07 |==================== run in the background against light use . 368.44 |============================= Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 6500 Linux ...................... 76.78 |================== run in the background against light use . 123.45 |============================= Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP Streamcluster Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 6500 Linux ...................... 40.74 |============================== run in the background against light use . 39.52 |============================= x264 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i5 6500 Linux ...................... 142.39 |============================= i5-3470 Arch 4.2.3-1 .................... 116.27 |======================== run in the background against light use . 113.05 |======================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.18-rc6 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 6500 Linux ...................... 128.60 |====================== run in the background against light use . 172.56 |============================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 6500 Linux ...................... 23.48 |==================== i5-3470 Arch 4.2.3-1 .................... 33.85 |============================= run in the background against light use . 34.60 |============================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 6500 Linux ...................... 113 |============================ i5-3470 Arch 4.2.3-1 .................... 123 |=============================== run in the background against light use . 129 |================================ FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 6500 Linux ...................... 5.69 |======================== i5-3470 Arch 4.2.3-1 .................... 7.17 |============================== run in the background against light use . 7.42 |=============================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 6500 Linux ...................... 12.16 |========================== i5-3470 Arch 4.2.3-1 .................... 13.47 |============================= run in the background against light use . 13.99 |============================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Core i5 6500 Linux ...................... 8058.54 |============================ run in the background against light use . 1452.04 |===== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i5 6500 Linux ...................... 35033.94 |=========================== i5-3470 Arch 4.2.3-1 .................... 23251.80 |================== run in the background against light use . 20991.50 |================