Audo Bench Intel Core i7-2600K testing with a Intel DZ77GA-70K and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i7-2600K: Processor: Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DZ77GA-70K, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST95005620AS + 750GB SAMSUNG HD753LJ + 300GB Maxtor 6L300S0, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB (980/3500MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC898, Network: Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-35-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 367.35, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + Clang 3.8.0-2ubuntu4 + CUDA 7.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-2600K . 9.17 |=================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-2600K . 8.11 |=================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-2600K . 13.23 |================================================== Ogg Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To Ogg Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-2600K . 7.73 |===================================================