Intel Core i7 990X Testing
Benchmarks for an Intel Core i7 990X Gulftown comparison. This is currently Intel's $999 USD fastest six-core system based on Gulftown, not Sandy Bridge. Look for more in an upcoming Phoronix article.
Core i5 2500K
Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS, Graphics: ATI Device 6738 (960/1150MHz), Monitor: DELL P2210H
OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.38-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0, Display Server: X Server 1.9.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Core i3 2100
Processor: Intel Core i3-2100 @ 3.10GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS, Graphics: ATI Device 6738, Monitor: DELL P2210H
OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.38-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0, Display Server: X Server 1.9.0, Display Driver: vesa 2.3.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.9-devel, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024
System Notes: Intel SpeedStep was enabled.
Core i7 920
Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock X58 Super, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 320GB Seagate ST3320620AS, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB (675/1100MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889A, Monitor: DELL S2409W
OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.38-020638-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0, Display Server: X Server 1.9.0, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Core i7 990X
Changed Processor to Intel Core i7 X 990 @ 3.47GHz (12 Cores).
Core i7 970
Processor: Intel Core i7 970 @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock X58 Super, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 320GB Seagate ST3320620AS, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB (675/1100MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889A, Monitor: DELL S2409W
OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.38-020638-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0, Display Server: X Server 1.9.0, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.9-devel, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5 + Clang 4.2.1 + llvm 2.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
C-Ray
TTSIOD 3D Renderer
Parallel BZIP2 Compression
Smallpt
7-Zip Compression
NAS Parallel Benchmarks
Timed HMMer Search
This test searches through the Pfam database of profile hidden markov models. The search finds the domain structure of Drosophila Sevenless protein. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Himeno Benchmark
GraphicsMagick
NAS Parallel Benchmarks
OpenSSL
Minion
Timed Apache Compilation
GraphicsMagick
NAS Parallel Benchmarks
LAME MP3 Encoding
Bullet Physics Engine
FFmpeg
NAS Parallel Benchmarks
Bullet Physics Engine
POV-Ray
Bullet Physics Engine
PostgreSQL pgbench
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation
x264
Core i5 2500K
Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS, Graphics: ATI Device 6738 (960/1150MHz), Monitor: DELL P2210H
OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.38-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0, Display Server: X Server 1.9.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Testing initiated at 14 March 2011 16:10 by user phoronix.
Core i3 2100
Processor: Intel Core i3-2100 @ 3.10GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS, Graphics: ATI Device 6738, Monitor: DELL P2210H
OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.38-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0, Display Server: X Server 1.9.0, Display Driver: vesa 2.3.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.9-devel, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024
System Notes: Intel SpeedStep was enabled.
Testing initiated at 16 March 2011 20:03 by user phoronix.
Core i7 920
Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock X58 Super, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 320GB Seagate ST3320620AS, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB (675/1100MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889A, Monitor: DELL S2409W
OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.38-020638-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0, Display Server: X Server 1.9.0, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
System Notes: Intel SpeedStep was enabled.
Testing initiated at 19 March 2011 15:04 by user phoronix.
Core i7 990X
Processor: Intel Core i7 X 990 @ 3.47GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock X58 Super, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 320GB Seagate ST3320620AS, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB (675/1100MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889A, Monitor: DELL S2409W
OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.38-020638-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0, Display Server: X Server 1.9.0, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
System Notes: Intel SpeedStep was enabled.
Testing initiated at 21 March 2011 16:03 by user phoronix.
Core i7 970
Processor: Intel Core i7 970 @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock X58 Super, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 320GB Seagate ST3320620AS, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB (675/1100MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889A, Monitor: DELL S2409W
OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.38-020638-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0, Display Server: X Server 1.9.0, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.9-devel, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5 + Clang 4.2.1 + llvm 2.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
System Notes: Intel SpeedStep was enabled.
Testing initiated at 26 March 2011 20:47 by user phoronix.