i5-multicore Intel Core i5-2540M testing with a HP 161C and Intel HD 3000 on Arch rolling via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i5-2540M: Processor: Intel Core i5-2540M @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP 161C, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB GOODRAM CX100, Graphics: Intel HD 3000 (1300MHz), Audio: IDT 92HD81B1X5, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.2.5-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.0, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2540M . 202.70 |================================================= Minion 0.15 Benchmark: Quasigroup Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2540M . 163.52 |================================================= Minion 0.15 Benchmark: Solitaire Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2540M . 104.99 |================================================= Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2540M . 99.62 |================================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2540M . 222 |==================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2540M . 20.99 |================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2540M . 69.38 |================================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2540M . 66.57 |================================================== Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2540M . 62.03 |================================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2540M . 8117 |=================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2540M . 1294.00 |================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2540M . 70 |===================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2540M . 113 |==================================================== x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2540M . 59.05 |================================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2540M . 1876 |=================================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2540M . 12.63 |================================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2540M . 26.07 |================================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2540M . 875.99 |=================================================