jaap Intel Core i7-6700K testing with a Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 TH-CF and Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB on LinuxMint 18 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i7-6700K: Processor: Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 TH-CF, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 4 x 16384 MB DDR4-3200MHz, Disk: 5 x 500GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2 x 2000GB My Passport 0827 + 1000GB 2105, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: LG ULTRAWIDE, Network: Intel Connection OS: LinuxMint 18, Kernel: 4.4.0-42-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 3.0.7, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: radeon 7.7.0, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3440x1440 16384 MB DDR4-3200MHz: Processor: Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 TH-CF, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 4 x 16384 MB DDR4-3200MHz, Disk: 5 x 500GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2 x 2000GB My Passport 0827 + 1000GB 2105, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: LG ULTRAWIDE, Network: Intel Connection OS: LinuxMint 18, Kernel: 4.4.0-42-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 3.0.7, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: radeon 7.7.0, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3440x1440 SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-6700K . 1064.76 |================================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-6700K . 636.25 |================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-6700K . 269.46 |================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-6700K . 1718.51 |================================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-6700K . 1443.82 |================================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-6700K . 1255.79 |================================================ Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better 16384 MB DDR4-3200MHz . 12612.70 |============================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better 16384 MB DDR4-3200MHz . 8487.66 |============================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better 16384 MB DDR4-3200MHz . 9530.50 |============================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better 16384 MB DDR4-3200MHz . 9522.42 |==============================================