Intel Core i5 6600K Skylake CPU Tests Athlon 64 X2 5600+ Core i7 4770K: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Intel HD 4600 (1250MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: G237HL, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Fedora 22, Kernel: 4.2.0-0.rc6.git0.1.fc24.x86_64 (x86_64) 20150810, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.16.3, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.6.3 (git-ccef890), Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Core i7 4790K: Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3P, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Intel HD 4600 (1250MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Fedora 22, Kernel: 4.2.0-0.rc6.git0.1.fc24.x86_64 (x86_64) 20150810, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.16.3, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.6.3 (git-ccef890), Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Core i7 5775C: Processor: Intel Core i7-5775C @ 3.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z97-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Broadwell-U- DMI, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Intel Broadwell-U (1150MHz), Audio: Intel Broadwell-U Audio, Monitor: VE228, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit OS: Fedora 22, Kernel: 4.2.0-0.rc6.git0.1.fc24.x86_64 (x86_64) 20150810, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.16.3, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.6.3 (git-ccef890), Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Core i5 6600K: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Intel Sky Lake (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel Connection OS: Fedora 22, Kernel: 4.2.0-0.rc6.git0.1.fc24.x86_64 (x86_64) 20150810, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.16.3, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.6.3 (git-ccef890), Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 A10-7850K: Processor: AMD A10-7850K APU with Radeon R7 @ 3.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS A88X-PRO, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon R7 512MB (351MHz), Audio: AMD Kaveri HDMI/DP, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Fedora 22, Kernel: 4.2.0-0.rc6.git0.1.fc24.x86_64 (x86_64) 20150810, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.16.3, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.6.3 (git-ccef890) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 A10-7870K: Processor: AMD A10-7870K Radeon R7 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS A88XM-E, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon R7 1024MB (355MHz), Audio: AMD Kaveri HDMI/DP, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Fedora 22, Kernel: 4.2.0-0.rc6.git0.1.fc24.x86_64 (x86_64) 20150810, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.16.3, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.6.3 (git-ccef890) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 FX 8320E: Processor: AMD FX-8320E Eight-Core @ 3.20GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693) v4.0, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 5770 1024MB (157/300MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: VE228, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit OS: Fedora 22, Kernel: 4.2.0-0.rc6.git0.1.fc24.x86_64 (x86_64) 20150810, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.16.3, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.6.3 (git-ccef890) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 FX 8370: Processor: AMD FX-8370 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Killer, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: AMD FirePro V8700 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: VE228, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit OS: Fedora 22, Kernel: 4.2.0-0.rc6.git0.1.fc24.x86_64 (x86_64) 20150810, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.16.3, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.6.3 (git-ccef890) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Core i7-4700MQ: Processor: Intel Core i7-4700MQ @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 20AWA07B00, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 512GB SAMSUNG MZ7TD512, Graphics: Intel HD 4600 (1150MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Network: Intel Connection I217-LM + Intel Wireless 7260 OS: openSUSE 20151017, Kernel: 4.2.3-1-default (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 Athlon 64 X2 5600+: Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ @ 2.80GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M2N-E, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WD1003FZEX-0 + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EADS-00L + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EACS-00Z, Graphics: AMD Radeon X1950 GT 256MB, Audio: Analog Devices AD1988B, Monitor: S2231W OS: openSUSE 20151017, Kernel: 4.2.3-1-default (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 11.0.2 Gallium 0.4, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 4770K . 21.40 |=========================== Core i7 4790K . 19.37 |======================== Core i7 5775C . 21.24 |=========================== Core i5 6600K . 20.13 |========================= A10-7850K ..... 44.67 |======================================================== A10-7870K ..... 41.05 |=================================================== FX 8320E ...... 38.85 |================================================= FX 8370 ....... 35.90 |============================================= FFTW 3.3.4 Build: Float + SSE - Size: 2D FFT Size 4096 Mflops > Higher Is Better Core i7 4770K ...... 11754.00 |=============================== Core i7 4790K ...... 13946.00 |===================================== Core i7 5775C ...... 15648.00 |========================================== Core i5 6600K ...... 18004.00 |================================================ A10-7850K .......... 5439.72 |=============== A10-7870K .......... 6022.78 |================ FX 8320E ........... 6383.84 |================= FX 8370 ............ 6809.24 |================== Core i7-4700MQ ..... 11211.00 |============================== Athlon 64 X2 5600+ . 2918.84 |======== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 4770K ...... 12.91 |================ Core i7 4790K ...... 8.34 |========== Core i7 5775C ...... 8.06 |========== Core i5 6600K ...... 8.90 |=========== A10-7850K .......... 18.59 |====================== A10-7870K .......... 17.32 |===================== FX 8320E ........... 14.13 |================= FX 8370 ............ 11.20 |============= Core i7-4700MQ ..... 12.58 |=============== Athlon 64 X2 5600+ . 42.42 |=================================================== CacheBench Test: Read / Modify / Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Core i7 4770K ...... 40885.74 |====================================== Core i7 4790K ...... 51025.17 |================================================ Core i7 5775C ...... 42602.98 |======================================== Core i5 6600K ...... 31827.66 |============================== A10-7850K .......... 24141.70 |======================= A10-7870K .......... 25516.35 |======================== FX 8320E ........... 20860.07 |==================== FX 8370 ............ 22362.71 |===================== Core i7-4700MQ ..... 25267.13 |======================== Athlon 64 X2 5600+ . 11729.23 |=========== x264 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i7 4770K ...... 187.79 |============================================ Core i7 4790K ...... 214.61 |================================================== Core i7 5775C ...... 198.23 |============================================== Core i5 6600K ...... 176.49 |========================================= A10-7850K .......... 88.83 |===================== A10-7870K .......... 94.13 |====================== FX 8320E ........... 137.49 |================================ FX 8370 ............ 169.29 |======================================= Core i7-4700MQ ..... 143.07 |================================= Athlon 64 X2 5600+ . 23.37 |===== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Core i7 4770K ...... 1747.73 |=============================== Core i7 4790K ...... 2040.13 |==================================== Core i7 5775C ...... 2510.89 |============================================ Core i5 6600K ...... 2780.10 |================================================= A10-7850K .......... 868.86 |=============== A10-7870K .......... 965.60 |================= FX 8320E ........... 742.58 |============= FX 8370 ............ 792.57 |============== Core i7-4700MQ ..... 1636.76 |============================= Athlon 64 X2 5600+ . 363.79 |====== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.18-rc6 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 4770K ...... 98.05 |========= Core i7 4790K ...... 84.49 |======== Core i7 5775C ...... 89.84 |======== Core i5 6600K ...... 100.68 |========= A10-7850K .......... 207.14 |=================== A10-7870K .......... 194.01 |================= FX 8320E ........... 133.97 |============ FX 8370 ............ 109.85 |========== Core i7-4700MQ ..... 156.00 |============== Athlon 64 X2 5600+ . 558.06 |================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 4770K ...... 17.07 |======== Core i7 4790K ...... 15.04 |======= Core i7 5775C ...... 17.59 |======== Core i5 6600K ...... 15.13 |======= A10-7850K .......... 40.26 |================== A10-7870K .......... 38.11 |================= FX 8320E ........... 24.44 |=========== FX 8370 ............ 19.53 |========= Core i7-4700MQ ..... 24.07 |=========== Athlon 64 X2 5600+ . 109.79 |================================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 4770K ...... 25 |======== Core i7 4790K ...... 22 |======= Core i7 5775C ...... 22 |======= Core i5 6600K ...... 28 |========= A10-7850K .......... 67 |===================== A10-7870K .......... 63 |==================== FX 8320E ........... 39 |============ FX 8370 ............ 32 |========== Core i7-4700MQ ..... 36 |=========== Athlon 64 X2 5600+ . 169 |===================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 4770K ...... 5.95 |============ Core i7 4790K ...... 5.36 |=========== Core i7 5775C ...... 6.35 |============= Core i5 6600K ...... 4.98 |========== A10-7850K .......... 10.49 |===================== A10-7870K .......... 9.95 |==================== FX 8320E ........... 10.35 |===================== FX 8370 ............ 9.63 |=================== Core i7-4700MQ ..... 7.75 |================ Athlon 64 X2 5600+ . 25.41 |=================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 4770K ...... 11.25 |=================== Core i7 4790K ...... 9.90 |================= Core i7 5775C ...... 11.78 |==================== Core i5 6600K ...... 10.85 |=================== A10-7850K .......... 18.74 |================================ A10-7870K .......... 17.78 |============================== FX 8320E ........... 18.90 |================================ FX 8370 ............ 17.57 |============================== Core i7-4700MQ ..... 14.63 |========================= Athlon 64 X2 5600+ . 29.86 |===================================================