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.
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Intel Core i7 990X Testing Processor Motherboard Chipset Memory Disk Graphics Monitor Audio OS Kernel Desktop Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Compiler File-System Screen Resolution Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores) SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra Intel Sandy Bridge 3072MB 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS ATI Device 6738 (960/1150MHz) DELL P2210H Ubuntu 10.10 2.6.38-999-generic (x86_64) GNOME 2.32.0 X Server 1.9.0 radeon 6.14.99 2.1 Mesa 7.11-devel Gallium 0.4 GCC 4.4.5 ext4 1920x1080 Intel Core i3-2100 @ 3.10GHz (4 Cores) ATI Device 6738 vesa 2.3.0 2.1 Mesa 7.9-devel 1280x1024 Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 Cores) ASRock X58 Super Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R 320GB Seagate ST3320620AS NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB (675/1100MHz) Realtek ALC889A DELL S2409W 2.6.38-020638-generic (x86_64) nouveau 0.0.16 1920x1080 Intel Core i7 X 990 @ 3.47GHz (12 Cores) Intel Core i7 970 @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores) 2.1 Mesa 7.9-devel GCC 4.4.5 + Clang 4.2.1 + llvm 2.6 AMD Phenom 9950 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores) ASRock AOD790GX/128M AMD RS780 + SB700/SB800 5632MB 40GB INTEL SSDSA2M040 + 640GB Western Digital WDC WD6400AAKS-2 + 250GB Western Digital WDC WD2500JB-00G ATI Radeon HD 3300 384MB (700/400MHz) DELL ST2210 2.6.35-28-generic (x86_64) fglrx 8.78.30 GCC 4.4.5 OpenBenchmarking.org System Details - Core i3 2100: Intel SpeedStep was enabled. - Core i7 920: Intel SpeedStep was enabled. - Core i7 990X: Intel SpeedStep was enabled. - Core i7 970: Intel SpeedStep was enabled. - Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i: Compiz was running on this system. AMD CnQ was enabled.
Intel Core i7 990X Testing bullet: 3000 Fall bullet: 1000 Stack bullet: 136 Ragdolls bullet: 1000 Convex bullet: Prim Trimesh bullet: Convex Trimesh bullet: Raytests minion: Solitaire encode-mp3: WAV To MP3 hmmer: Pfam Database Search himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver npb: FT.B npb: IS.C npb: LU.A npb: MG.B npb: UA.A build-apache: Time To Compile compress-7zip: Compress Speed Test compress-pbzip2: 256MB File Compression build-linux-kernel: Time To Compile graphics-magick: Local Adaptive Thresholding graphics-magick: Resizing x264: H.264 Video Encoding c-ray: Total Time ttsiod-renderer: Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping povray: Total Time ffmpeg: AVI To NTSC VCD smallpt: Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples openssl: RSA 4096-bit Performance pgbench: TPC-B Transactions Per Second Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 12.36 14.11 6.52 8.83 9.12 17.03 19.88 115.05 19.22 15.22 341.45 6574.63 184.42 9338.24 5760.77 35.03 24.07 12611 11.23 352.71 49 123 74.17 61.65 108.60 708 10.98 144 86.53 148.17 15.52 18.33 8.61 11.21 11.21 20.59 24.01 143.97 22.94 25.01 286.89 3675.74 156.25 5207.57 4211.86 21.63 34.99 7712 19.96 612.55 40 96 46.09 128.42 62.19 847 13.11 225 73.15 146.54 16.19 19.37 8.50 12.28 12.43 23.41 27.40 185.81 28.44 16.75 199.75 4647.54 124.31 8238.34 4560.75 35.66 30.35 13702 10.95 366.38 57 103 74.53 71.29 118.00 936 15.03 144 45.68 12.91 15.22 7.00 9.77 9.99 18.56 21.66 166.80 22.45 10.27 286.30 3959.76 148.22 11466.98 4525.79 55.75 23.29 23951 6.05 227.78 89 143 135.23 35.94 210.95 730 12.17 72 57.73 14.21 16.59 7.71 10.59 10.78 20.00 23.40 187.49 25.39 11.71 451.60 3246.42 133.89 9827.74 4361.57 49.24 22.79 20413 7.02 258.29 79 128 113.53 34.02 179.86 788 13.15 91 53.43 148.01 38.18 38.64 21.64 25.51 22.53 41.17 47.93 693.78 38.41 27.55 131.97 2184.47 62.62 3829.82 2058.99 13.98 8.50 7208 23.66 604.03 36 80 40.66 135.76 45.37 1404 23.43 234 49.00 OpenBenchmarking.org
Bullet Physics Engine Test: 3000 Fall OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Bullet Physics Engine 2.75 Test: 3000 Fall Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 9 18 27 36 45 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 12.36 15.52 16.19 12.91 14.21 38.18
Bullet Physics Engine Test: 1000 Stack OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Bullet Physics Engine 2.75 Test: 1000 Stack Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 9 18 27 36 45 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 14.11 18.33 19.37 15.22 16.59 38.64
Bullet Physics Engine Test: 136 Ragdolls OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Bullet Physics Engine 2.75 Test: 136 Ragdolls Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 5 10 15 20 25 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 6.52 8.61 8.50 7.00 7.71 21.64
Bullet Physics Engine Test: 1000 Convex OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Bullet Physics Engine 2.75 Test: 1000 Convex Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 8.83 11.21 12.28 9.77 10.59 25.51
Bullet Physics Engine Test: Prim Trimesh OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Bullet Physics Engine 2.75 Test: Prim Trimesh Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 5 10 15 20 25 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 9.12 11.21 12.43 9.99 10.78 22.53
Bullet Physics Engine Test: Convex Trimesh OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Bullet Physics Engine 2.75 Test: Convex Trimesh Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 9 18 27 36 45 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 17.03 20.59 23.41 18.56 20.00 41.17
Bullet Physics Engine Test: Raytests OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Bullet Physics Engine 2.75 Test: Raytests Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 11 22 33 44 55 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 19.88 24.01 27.40 21.66 23.40 47.93
Minion Benchmark: Solitaire OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Minion 0.9 Benchmark: Solitaire Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 150 300 450 600 750 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.78, N = 3 SE +/- 0.17, N = 3 SE +/- 0.37, N = 3 SE +/- 0.31, N = 3 SE +/- 1.49, N = 3 115.05 143.97 185.81 166.80 187.49 693.78
LAME MP3 Encoding WAV To MP3 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better LAME MP3 Encoding 3.98.2 WAV To MP3 Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 9 18 27 36 45 SE +/- 0.02, N = 5 SE +/- 0.03, N = 5 SE +/- 0.04, N = 5 SE +/- 0.02, N = 5 SE +/- 0.02, N = 5 SE +/- 0.16, N = 5 19.22 22.94 28.44 22.45 25.39 38.41
Timed HMMer Search Pfam Database Search OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.49, N = 3 15.22 25.01 16.75 10.27 11.71 27.55
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 100 200 300 400 500 SE +/- 0.94, N = 3 SE +/- 0.50, N = 3 SE +/- 0.31, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.69, N = 3 341.45 286.89 199.75 286.30 451.60 131.97
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: FT.B OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: FT.B Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 1400 2800 4200 5600 7000 SE +/- 6.60, N = 3 SE +/- 56.81, N = 5 SE +/- 17.54, N = 3 SE +/- 1.62, N = 3 SE +/- 0.39, N = 3 SE +/- 225.85, N = 6 6574.63 3675.74 4647.54 3959.76 3246.42 2184.47
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: IS.C OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: IS.C Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.23, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.20, N = 3 184.42 156.25 124.31 148.22 133.89 62.62
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: LU.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 31.43, N = 3 SE +/- 21.33, N = 3 SE +/- 33.06, N = 3 SE +/- 23.27, N = 3 SE +/- 27.47, N = 3 SE +/- 31.88, N = 3 9338.24 5207.57 8238.34 11466.98 9827.74 3829.82
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: MG.B OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 1200 2400 3600 4800 6000 SE +/- 1.04, N = 3 SE +/- 1.70, N = 3 SE +/- 2.51, N = 3 SE +/- 4.59, N = 3 SE +/- 4.11, N = 3 SE +/- 1.48, N = 3 5760.77 4211.86 4560.75 4525.79 4361.57 2058.99
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: UA.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 13 26 39 52 65 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.27, N = 3 SE +/- 0.28, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 35.03 21.63 35.66 55.75 49.24 13.98
Timed Apache Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed Apache Compilation 2.2.17 Time To Compile Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 8 16 24 32 40 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.11, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 24.07 34.99 30.35 23.29 22.79 8.50
7-Zip Compression Compress Speed Test OpenBenchmarking.org MIPS, More Is Better 7-Zip Compression 9.13 Compress Speed Test Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 5K 10K 15K 20K 25K SE +/- 8.65, N = 3 SE +/- 106.85, N = 5 SE +/- 197.11, N = 6 SE +/- 309.89, N = 3 SE +/- 217.92, N = 3 SE +/- 9.74, N = 3 12611 7712 13702 23951 20413 7208
Parallel BZIP2 Compression 256MB File Compression OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.21, N = 3 11.23 19.96 10.95 6.05 7.02 23.66
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 2.6.25 Time To Compile Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 130 260 390 520 650 SE +/- 2.06, N = 3 SE +/- 10.33, N = 3 SE +/- 6.16, N = 6 SE +/- 8.95, N = 6 SE +/- 6.43, N = 6 SE +/- 6.04, N = 3 352.71 612.55 366.38 227.78 258.29 604.03
GraphicsMagick Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 49 40 57 89 79 36
GraphicsMagick Operation: Resizing OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 123 96 103 143 128 80
x264 H.264 Video Encoding OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better x264 2010-11-22 H.264 Video Encoding Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 1.46, N = 6 SE +/- 0.93, N = 3 SE +/- 1.44, N = 3 SE +/- 3.41, N = 6 SE +/- 1.84, N = 6 SE +/- 0.56, N = 3 74.17 46.09 74.53 135.23 113.53 40.66
C-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.22, N = 3 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 61.65 128.42 71.29 35.94 34.02 135.76
TTSIOD 3D Renderer Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping OpenBenchmarking.org FPS, More Is Better TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.1v Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.49, N = 3 SE +/- 0.75, N = 3 SE +/- 0.58, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 108.60 62.19 118.00 210.95 179.86 45.37
POV-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 300 600 900 1200 1500 708 847 936 730 788 1404
FFmpeg AVI To NTSC VCD OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FFmpeg 0.6.1 AVI To NTSC VCD Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.21, N = 3 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 10.98 13.11 15.03 12.17 13.15 23.43
Smallpt Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 1.20, N = 3 SE +/- 0.67, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 144 225 144 72 91 234
OpenSSL RSA 4096-bit Performance OpenBenchmarking.org Signs Per Second, More Is Better OpenSSL 1.0.0a RSA 4096-bit Performance Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 920 Core i7 990X Core i7 970 Compare Phenom 9950 to Intel Core i 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.30, N = 4 SE +/- 0.22, N = 4 SE +/- 0.06, N = 4 SE +/- 0.02, N = 4 SE +/- 0.06, N = 4 SE +/- 0.06, N = 4 86.53 73.15 45.68 57.73 53.43 49.00
PostgreSQL pgbench TPC-B Transactions Per Second OpenBenchmarking.org TPS, More Is Better PostgreSQL pgbench 9.0.1 TPC-B Transactions Per Second Core i5 2500K Core i3 2100 Core i7 970 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 2.90, N = 3 SE +/- 1.17, N = 3 SE +/- 0.68, N = 3 148.17 146.54 148.01
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