Linux 4.15 Testing 2017 XPS 15 without PTI i7 8700K: Pre: Processor: Intel Core i7-8700K @ 4.70GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z370-A, Chipset: Intel Device 3ec2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 580 8192MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-041500rc5-generic (x86_64) 20171224, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.4.0-devel- padoka PPA (LLVM 6.0.0), Vulkan: 1.0.42, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 i7 8700K: Post: Processor: Intel Core i7-8700K @ 4.70GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z370-A, Chipset: Intel Device 3ec2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 580 8192MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20171231, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.4.0-devel- padoka PPA (LLVM 6.0.0), Vulkan: 1.0.42, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 i7 6800K: Pre: Processor: Intel Core i7-6800K @ 3.80GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: MSI X99A WORKSTATION (MS-7A54) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v4/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: NV120 12288MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.15.0-041500rc5-generic (x86_64) 20171224, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.1, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 17.2.2, Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 i7 6800K: Post: Processor: Intel Core i7-6800K @ 3.80GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: MSI X99A WORKSTATION (MS-7A54) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v4/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: NV120 12288MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.15.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20171231, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.1, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 17.2.2, Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 xps15lplab-nopti: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700HQ @ 3.80GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Dell 05FFDN, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: PM961 NVMe SAMSUNG 1024GB, Graphics: Intel HD 630 3072MB (1100MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC3266, Network: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.14.11-1-lplab (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.5, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.3.1, Compiler: GCC 7.2.1 20171128 + Clang 5.0.1 + CUDA 9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better i7 8700K: Pre .... 67.99 |================================================ i7 8700K: Post ... 74.41 |===================================================== i7 6800K: Pre .... 40.54 |============================= i7 6800K: Post ... 41.66 |============================== xps15lplab-nopti . 54.74 |======================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better i7 8700K: Pre .... 116.10 |==================================================== i7 8700K: Post ... 65.40 |============================= i7 6800K: Pre .... 58.90 |========================== i7 6800K: Post ... 53.48 |======================== xps15lplab-nopti . 107.37 |================================================ FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better i7 8700K: Pre .... 293.60 |==================================================== i7 8700K: Post ... 135.20 |======================== i7 6800K: Pre .... 51.87 |========= i7 6800K: Post ... 50.67 |========= xps15lplab-nopti . 166.33 |============================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better i7 8700K: Pre .... 116.27 |==================================================== i7 8700K: Post ... 71.77 |================================ i7 6800K: Pre .... 42.95 |=================== i7 6800K: Post ... 43.03 |=================== xps15lplab-nopti . 60.67 |=========================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better i7 8700K: Pre .. 1637.52 |===================================================== i7 8700K: Post . 994.87 |================================ i7 6800K: Pre .. 708.58 |======================= i7 6800K: Post . 696.39 |======================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better i7 8700K: Pre .. 656.20 |====================================================== i7 8700K: Post . 558.77 |============================================== i7 6800K: Pre .. 468.23 |======================================= i7 6800K: Post . 398.81 |================================= x264 2017-09-08 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better i7 8700K: Pre .. 305.55 |====================================================== i7 8700K: Post . 303.70 |====================================================== i7 6800K: Pre .. 242.61 |=========================================== i7 6800K: Post . 243.23 |=========================================== ebizzy 0.3 Records/s > Higher Is Better i7 8700K: Pre .... 396530 |=================================================== i7 8700K: Post ... 401645 |==================================================== i7 6800K: Pre .... 199634 |========================== i7 6800K: Post ... 197273 |========================== xps15lplab-nopti . 194158 |========================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.13 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better i7 8700K: Pre .... 65.34 |====================== i7 8700K: Post ... 65.56 |====================== i7 6800K: Pre .... 99.56 |================================= i7 6800K: Post ... 99.54 |================================= xps15lplab-nopti . 157.95 |==================================================== FFmpeg 3.3.3 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better i7 8700K: Pre .... 4.19 |================================== i7 8700K: Post ... 4.17 |================================== i7 6800K: Pre .... 6.04 |================================================= i7 6800K: Post ... 6.11 |================================================== xps15lplab-nopti . 6.62 |====================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 10.0 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better i7 8700K: Pre .... 2243.46 |=============================== i7 8700K: Post ... 1949.49 |=========================== i7 6800K: Pre .... 3655.01 |=================================================== i7 6800K: Post ... 2949.57 |========================================= xps15lplab-nopti . 2992.17 |========================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better i7 8700K: Pre .... 3141409.42 |================================================ i7 8700K: Post ... 2958700.33 |============================================= i7 6800K: Pre .... 2648650.75 |======================================== i7 6800K: Post ... 2459189.08 |====================================== xps15lplab-nopti . 3000222.00 |============================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better i7 8700K: Pre .... 2192989.50 |=============================================== i7 8700K: Post ... 2216207.08 |================================================ i7 6800K: Pre .... 1968968.17 |=========================================== i7 6800K: Post ... 1926070.42 |========================================== xps15lplab-nopti . 2108249.17 |============================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better i7 8700K: Pre .. 49245.29 |==================================================== i7 8700K: Post . 49516.92 |==================================================== i7 6800K: Pre .. 32675.40 |================================== i7 6800K: Post . 36243.13 |====================================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better i7 8700K: Pre .... 213.44 |==================================================== i7 8700K: Post ... 208.62 |=================================================== xps15lplab-nopti . 19.13 |===== Unigine Superposition 1.0 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Mode: Fullscreen - Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better i7 8700K: Pre .... 41.90 |===================================================== i7 8700K: Post ... 41.90 |===================================================== xps15lplab-nopti . 3.20 |==== Unigine Superposition 1.0 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Mode: Fullscreen - Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better i7 8700K: Pre .... 11.20 |===================================================== i7 8700K: Post ... 11.20 |===================================================== xps15lplab-nopti . 2.10 |========== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better i7 8700K: Pre .... 251.67 |==================================================== i7 8700K: Post ... 250.50 |==================================================== xps15lplab-nopti . 25.09 |===== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better i7 8700K: Pre .... 188.37 |==================================================== i7 8700K: Post ... 188.81 |==================================================== xps15lplab-nopti . 19.05 |===== Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Crypto Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better i7 8700K: Pre .... 1479.12 |=================================================== i7 8700K: Post ... 1486.27 |=================================================== i7 6800K: Pre .... 1197.27 |========================================= i7 6800K: Post ... 1195.17 |========================================= xps15lplab-nopti . 762.46 |========================== Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Forking Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better i7 8700K: Pre .... 71213.27 |================================================== i7 8700K: Post ... 70875.02 |================================================== i7 6800K: Pre .... 65249.95 |============================================== i7 6800K: Post ... 66028.68 |============================================== xps15lplab-nopti . 36121.40 |========================= Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Socket Activity Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better i7 8700K: Pre .... 9951.75 |=================================================== i7 8700K: Post ... 8604.22 |============================================ i7 6800K: Pre .... 5828.56 |============================== i7 6800K: Post ... 5742.01 |============================= xps15lplab-nopti . 3206.16 |================