Favorites AMD Phenom II X3 720 testing with a ASRock A780GXH/128M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 1024MB on Arch rolling via the Phoronix Test Suite. Phenom X3: Processor: AMD Phenom II X3 720 @ 2.80GHz (3 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock A780GXH/128M, Chipset: AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 750GB SAMSUNG HD753LJ + 120GB SanDisk SDSSDX12 + 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAVS-0 + 1500GB Western Digital WD15EARS-00M, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 1024MB (901/2505MHz), Audio: VIA VT1708S, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.2.5-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Driver: NVIDIA 358.16, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 5.3.0 + LLVM 3.7.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 SQLite 3.8.10.2 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom X3 . 75.19 |============================================================ Dbench 4.0 1 Client MB/s > Higher Is Better Phenom X3 . 89.26 |============================================================ Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom X3 . 12.65 |============================================================ PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Phenom X3 . 2757 |============================================================= OpenArena 0.8.8 1920 x 1200 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Phenom X3 . 79.07 |============================================================ OpenArena 0.8.8 1920 x 1200 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Phenom X3 . MIN: 7.0 AVG: 12.6 MAX: 39.0 Tremulous 1.1.0 1920 x 1200 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Phenom X3 . 149.67 |=========================================================== Urban Terror 4.2.013 1920 x 1200 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Phenom X3 . 98.30 |============================================================ Urban Terror 4.2.013 1920 x 1200 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Phenom X3 . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 10.1 MAX: 24.0 John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Phenom X3 . 2325 |============================================================= John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better Phenom X3 . 6943667 |========================================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better Phenom X3 . 38399 |============================================================ x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Phenom X3 . 51.06 |============================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Phenom X3 . 103 |============================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Phenom X3 . 55 |=============================================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Phenom X3 . 4450 |============================================================= Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom X3 . 75.98 |============================================================ C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom X3 . 64.59 |============================================================ Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom X3 . 291 |============================================================== Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom X3 . 121.61 |=========================================================== dcraw RAW To PPM Image Conversion Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom X3 . 125.10 |=========================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom X3 . 14.29 |============================================================ LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom X3 . 22.89 |============================================================ FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom X3 . 27.64 |============================================================ OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Phenom X3 . 240.90 |=========================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Phenom X3 . 20879.34 |=========================================================