audio_i7
Intel Core i7-6800K testing with a ASUS X99-A and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8192MB on Gentoo 2.2 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


Intel Core i7-6700: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-6700 @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z170M-ITX/ac, Chipset: Intel Skylake /DRAM, Memory: 2 x 16384 MB DDR4-2133MHz, Disk: 250GB Western Digital WD2500BEKT-0 + 240GB SanDisk SDSSDHII, Graphics: Intel Skylake (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: SUSE LINUX 42.1, Kernel: 4.1.34-33-default (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, Compiler: GCC 4.8.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200

matrix-comparison-30-10-2016: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-6800K @ 3.40GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS X99-A, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 512GB Samsung SSD 850 + 256GB SAMSUNG SSD 830, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8192MB (1632/4104MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150

	OS: Gentoo 2.2, Kernel: 4.4.26-gentoo-native (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 370.28, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.13, Compiler: GCC 4.9.3 + LLVM 3.7.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 5760x1080


Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6
WAV To APE
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Intel Core i7-6700 ........... 7.05 |==========================================
matrix-comparison-30-10-2016 . 5.42 |================================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Intel Core i7-6700 ........... 6.74 |==========================================
matrix-comparison-30-10-2016 . 6.48 |========================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Intel Core i7-6700 ........... 13.57 |=========================================
matrix-comparison-30-10-2016 . 12.17 |=====================================