kernel1 AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core testing with a MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693) v4.0 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2048MB on Gentoo/Linux via the Phoronix Test Suite. kernel1: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693) v4.0, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 1000GB Seagate ST1000DX001-1NS1, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2048MB (135/405MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150 OS: Gentoo/Linux, Kernel: 4.9.16-gentoo (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.19.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 378.13, Vulkan: 1.0.37, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 + LLVM 3.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better kernel1 . 138.96 |=============================================================