Manjaro i5-3570K KPTI+UCODE Impact Comparison Intel Core i5-3570K testing with a ASRock P67 Extreme6 and ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB on ManjaroLinux 17.0.5 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Manjaro 3570K: Processor: Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock P67 Extreme6, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ AGILITY3 + 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103UJ, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (1113/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: ManjaroLinux 17.0.5, Kernel: 4.13.4-3-MANJARO (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 3.4.6, Display Driver: NVIDIA 384.90, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Manjaro KPTI: Processor: Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock P67 Extreme6, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ AGILITY3 + 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103UJ, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (1113/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: ManjaroLinux 17.1.1, Kernel: 4.14.11-3-MANJARO (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 3.6.6, Display Driver: NVIDIA 384.98, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 7.2.1 20171128, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Manjaro KPTI+UCODE: Processor: Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock P67 Extreme6, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ AGILITY3 + 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103UJ, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (1113/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: ManjaroLinux 17.1.1, Kernel: 4.14.13-1-MANJARO (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 3.6.6, Display Driver: NVIDIA 384.111, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 7.2.1 20171224, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 x264 2017-09-08 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 103.03 |================================================ Manjaro KPTI ....... 106.36 |================================================== Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 104.55 |================================================= 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 15476 |================================================== Manjaro KPTI ....... 15882 |=================================================== Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 15598 |================================================== Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 75.29 |=================================================== Manjaro KPTI ....... 75.93 |=================================================== Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 75.82 |=================================================== Timed MrBayes Analysis 3.1.2 Primate Phylogeny Analysis Seconds < Lower Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 334.14 |================================================= Manjaro KPTI ....... 339.66 |================================================== Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 340.83 |================================================== Fhourstones 3.1 Complex Connect-4 Solving Kpos / sec > Higher Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 11859.50 |================================================ Manjaro KPTI ....... 11824.60 |================================================ Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 11836.17 |================================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 560.90 |================================================== Manjaro KPTI ....... 556.32 |================================================== Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 557.51 |================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 126.76 |================================================== Manjaro KPTI ....... 121.14 |================================================ Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 125.59 |================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 160.27 |================================================== Manjaro KPTI ....... 157.50 |================================================= Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 158.49 |================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 607.52 |================================================== Manjaro KPTI ....... 604.81 |================================================== Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 604.27 |================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 804.24 |================================================== Manjaro KPTI ....... 798.66 |================================================== Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 800.02 |================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 1105.72 |================================================= Manjaro KPTI ....... 1099.49 |================================================= Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 1099.21 |================================================= TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 1090649 |================================================= Manjaro KPTI ....... 1084636 |================================================= Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 1082935 |================================================= John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 3883 |==================================================== Manjaro KPTI ....... 3822 |=================================================== Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 3831 |=================================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 9686000 |================================================= Manjaro KPTI ....... 9489000 |================================================ Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 9514333 |================================================ John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 65200 |=================================================== Manjaro KPTI ....... 64221 |================================================== Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 64017 |================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 1625.22 |================================================= Manjaro KPTI ....... 1628.60 |================================================= Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 1626.78 |================================================= Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 11.90 |================================================== Manjaro KPTI ....... 12.09 |=================================================== Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 12.05 |=================================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 287.01 |================================================= Manjaro KPTI ....... 289.92 |================================================== Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 289.99 |================================================== Multichase Pointer Chaser Test: 4MB Array, 64 Byte Stride ns < Lower Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 5.06 |==================================================== Manjaro KPTI ....... 4.98 |=================================================== Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 4.98 |=================================================== Multichase Pointer Chaser Test: 1GB Array, 256 Byte Stride ns < Lower Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 57.64 |================================================== Manjaro KPTI ....... 58.07 |=================================================== Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 58.37 |=================================================== Multichase Pointer Chaser Test: 256MB Array, 256 Byte Stride ns < Lower Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 58.11 |=================================================== Manjaro KPTI ....... 57.79 |=================================================== Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 57.82 |=================================================== Multichase Pointer Chaser Test: 1GB Array, 256 Byte Stride, 2 Threads ns < Lower Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 57.25 |=================================================== Manjaro KPTI ....... 57.44 |=================================================== Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 57.70 |=================================================== Multichase Pointer Chaser Test: 1GB Array, 256 Byte Stride, 4 Threads ns < Lower Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 61.11 |=================================================== Manjaro KPTI ....... 61.28 |=================================================== Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 61.62 |=================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 33.87 |=================================================== Manjaro KPTI ....... 33.99 |=================================================== Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 34.03 |=================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 6.59 |==================================================== Manjaro KPTI ....... 6.64 |==================================================== Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 6.62 |==================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.5 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 10.88 |=================================================== Manjaro KPTI ....... 10.88 |=================================================== Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 10.90 |=================================================== Ogg Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To Ogg Seconds < Lower Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 7.31 |==================================================== Manjaro KPTI ....... 7.33 |==================================================== Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 7.33 |==================================================== Opus Codec Encoding 1.0.1 WAV, Opus Encode, Opus Decode Seconds < Lower Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 8.90 |==================================================== Manjaro KPTI ....... 8.94 |==================================================== Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 8.94 |==================================================== WavPack Audio Encoding 5.1 WAV To WavPack Seconds < Lower Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 7.25 |==================================================== Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 7.30 |==================================================== asmFish 2017-09-19 1024 Hash Memory, 26 Depth Nodes/second > Higher Is Better Manjaro 3570K ...... 9443865 |================================================= Manjaro KPTI ....... 9323448 |================================================ Manjaro KPTI+UCODE . 9383462 |=================================================