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 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: 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 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 TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.1v Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better Core i5 2500K . 108.60 |============================ Core i3 2100 .. 62.19 |================ Core i7 920 ... 118.00 |=============================== Core i7 990X .. 210.95 |======================================================= Core i7 970 ... 179.86 |=============================================== x264 2010-11-22 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i5 2500K . 74.17 |============================== Core i3 2100 .. 46.09 |=================== Core i7 920 ... 74.53 |============================== Core i7 990X .. 135.23 |======================================================= Core i7 970 ... 113.53 |============================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Core i5 2500K . 49 |================================ Core i3 2100 .. 40 |=========================== Core i7 920 ... 57 |====================================== Core i7 990X .. 89 |=========================================================== Core i7 970 ... 79 |==================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Core i5 2500K . 123 |================================================== Core i3 2100 .. 96 |======================================= Core i7 920 ... 103 |========================================== Core i7 990X .. 143 |========================================================== Core i7 970 ... 128 |==================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Core i5 2500K . 341.45 |========================================== Core i3 2100 .. 286.89 |=================================== Core i7 920 ... 199.75 |======================== Core i7 990X .. 286.30 |=================================== Core i7 970 ... 451.60 |======================================================= 7-Zip Compression 9.13 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Core i5 2500K . 12611 |============================= Core i3 2100 .. 7712 |================== Core i7 920 ... 13702 |================================ Core i7 990X .. 23951 |======================================================== Core i7 970 ... 20413 |================================================ OpenSSL 1.0.0a RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i5 2500K . 86.53 |======================================================== Core i3 2100 .. 73.15 |=============================================== Core i7 920 ... 45.68 |============================== Core i7 990X .. 57.73 |===================================== Core i7 970 ... 53.43 |=================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: FT.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Core i5 2500K . 6574.63 |====================================================== Core i3 2100 .. 3675.74 |============================== Core i7 920 ... 4647.54 |====================================== Core i7 990X .. 3959.76 |================================= Core i7 970 ... 3246.42 |=========================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: IS.C Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Core i5 2500K . 184.42 |======================================================= Core i3 2100 .. 156.25 |=============================================== Core i7 920 ... 124.31 |===================================== Core i7 990X .. 148.22 |============================================ Core i7 970 ... 133.89 |======================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Core i5 2500K . 9338.24 |=========================================== Core i3 2100 .. 5207.57 |======================== Core i7 920 ... 8238.34 |====================================== Core i7 990X .. 11466.98 |===================================================== Core i7 970 ... 9827.74 |============================================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Core i5 2500K . 5760.77 |====================================================== Core i3 2100 .. 4211.86 |======================================= Core i7 920 ... 4560.75 |=========================================== Core i7 990X .. 4525.79 |========================================== Core i7 970 ... 4361.57 |========================================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Core i5 2500K . 35.03 |=================================== Core i3 2100 .. 21.63 |====================== Core i7 920 ... 35.66 |==================================== Core i7 990X .. 55.75 |======================================================== Core i7 970 ... 49.24 |================================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.0.1 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better Core i5 2500K . 148.17 |======================================================= Core i3 2100 .. 146.54 |====================================================== Core i7 970 ... 148.01 |======================================================= FFmpeg 0.6.1 AVI To NTSC VCD Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2500K . 10.98 |========================================= Core i3 2100 .. 13.11 |================================================= Core i7 920 ... 15.03 |======================================================== Core i7 990X .. 12.17 |============================================= Core i7 970 ... 13.15 |================================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.98.2 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2500K . 19.22 |====================================== Core i3 2100 .. 22.94 |============================================= Core i7 920 ... 28.44 |======================================================== Core i7 990X .. 22.45 |============================================ Core i7 970 ... 25.39 |================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2500K . 11.23 |================================ Core i3 2100 .. 19.96 |======================================================== Core i7 920 ... 10.95 |=============================== Core i7 990X .. 6.05 |================= Core i7 970 ... 7.02 |==================== Bullet Physics Engine 2.75 Test: 3000 Fall Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2500K . 12.36 |=========================================== Core i3 2100 .. 15.52 |====================================================== Core i7 920 ... 16.19 |======================================================== Core i7 990X .. 12.91 |============================================= Core i7 970 ... 14.21 |================================================= Bullet Physics Engine 2.75 Test: 1000 Stack Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2500K . 14.11 |========================================= Core i3 2100 .. 18.33 |===================================================== Core i7 920 ... 19.37 |======================================================== Core i7 990X .. 15.22 |============================================ Core i7 970 ... 16.59 |================================================ Bullet Physics Engine 2.75 Test: 136 Ragdolls Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2500K . 6.52 |=========================================== Core i3 2100 .. 8.61 |========================================================= Core i7 920 ... 8.50 |======================================================== Core i7 990X .. 7.00 |============================================== Core i7 970 ... 7.71 |=================================================== Bullet Physics Engine 2.75 Test: 1000 Convex Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2500K . 8.83 |======================================== Core i3 2100 .. 11.21 |=================================================== Core i7 920 ... 12.28 |======================================================== Core i7 990X .. 9.77 |============================================= Core i7 970 ... 10.59 |================================================ Bullet Physics Engine 2.75 Test: Prim Trimesh Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2500K . 9.12 |========================================= Core i3 2100 .. 11.21 |=================================================== Core i7 920 ... 12.43 |======================================================== Core i7 990X .. 9.99 |============================================= Core i7 970 ... 10.78 |================================================= Bullet Physics Engine 2.75 Test: Convex Trimesh Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2500K . 17.03 |========================================= Core i3 2100 .. 20.59 |================================================= Core i7 920 ... 23.41 |======================================================== Core i7 990X .. 18.56 |============================================ Core i7 970 ... 20.00 |================================================ Bullet Physics Engine 2.75 Test: Raytests Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2500K . 19.88 |========================================= Core i3 2100 .. 24.01 |================================================= Core i7 920 ... 27.40 |======================================================== Core i7 990X .. 21.66 |============================================ Core i7 970 ... 23.40 |================================================ C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2500K . 61.65 |========================== Core i3 2100 .. 128.42 |======================================================= Core i7 920 ... 71.29 |=============================== Core i7 990X .. 35.94 |=============== Core i7 970 ... 34.02 |=============== POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2500K . 708 |============================================ Core i3 2100 .. 847 |==================================================== Core i7 920 ... 936 |========================================================== Core i7 990X .. 730 |============================================= Core i7 970 ... 788 |================================================= Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2500K . 144 |===================================== Core i3 2100 .. 225 |========================================================== Core i7 920 ... 144 |===================================== Core i7 990X .. 72 |=================== Core i7 970 ... 91 |======================= Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2500K . 15.22 |================================== Core i3 2100 .. 25.01 |======================================================== Core i7 920 ... 16.75 |====================================== Core i7 990X .. 10.27 |======================= Core i7 970 ... 11.71 |========================== Minion 0.9 Benchmark: Solitaire Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2500K . 115.05 |================================== Core i3 2100 .. 143.97 |========================================== Core i7 920 ... 185.81 |======================================================= Core i7 990X .. 166.80 |================================================= Core i7 970 ... 187.49 |======================================================= Timed Apache Compilation 2.2.17 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2500K . 24.07 |======================================= Core i3 2100 .. 34.99 |======================================================== Core i7 920 ... 30.35 |================================================= Core i7 990X .. 23.29 |===================================== Core i7 970 ... 22.79 |==================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 2.6.25 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2500K . 352.71 |================================ Core i3 2100 .. 612.55 |======================================================= Core i7 920 ... 366.38 |================================= Core i7 990X .. 227.78 |==================== Core i7 970 ... 258.29 |=======================