KPTI Intel Core i7-6900K testing with a ASUS X99-A II and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB on Arch rolling via the Phoronix Test Suite. 4.14.10-1: Processor: Intel Core i7-6900K @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS X99-A II, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v4/Xeon, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: 500GB Samsung SSD 850 + 480GB SanDisk SDSSDHII + 2 x Samsung SSD 950 PRO 512GB, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB (1265/3505MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: VE248, Network: Intel Connection OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.14.10-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Driver: NVIDIA 387.34, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 7.2.1 20171128 + Clang 5.0.1 + CUDA 9.1, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 5760x2160 4.14.11-1: Processor: Intel Core i7-6900K @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS X99-A II, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v4/Xeon, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: 500GB Samsung SSD 850 + 480GB SanDisk SDSSDHII + 2 x Samsung SSD 950 PRO 512GB, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB (1265/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: VE248, Network: Intel Connection OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.14.11-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Driver: NVIDIA 387.34, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 7.2.1 20171128 + Clang 5.0.1 + CUDA 9.1, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 5760x2160 GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 4.14.10-1 . 170 |============================================================== 4.14.11-1 . 170 |============================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 4.14.10-1 . 171 |============================================================= 4.14.11-1 . 175 |============================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 4.14.10-1 . 208 |============================================================ 4.14.11-1 . 215 |============================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 4.14.10-1 . 219 |============================================================ 4.14.11-1 . 228 |============================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 4.14.10-1 . 99 |============================================================ 4.14.11-1 . 102 |============================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.13 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better 4.14.10-1 . 72.48 |=========================================================== 4.14.11-1 . 73.14 |============================================================ C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better 4.14.10-1 . 11.46 |============================================================ 4.14.11-1 . 11.47 |============================================================ FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better 4.14.10-1 . 5.81 |============================================================= 4.14.11-1 . 5.81 |============================================================= OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better 4.14.10-1 . 1447.53 |========================================================== 4.14.11-1 . 1446.70 |==========================================================