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 i3 2100","Core i5 2500K","Core i7 920","Core i7 970","Core i7 990X","Core i5 2500K Fatbox Default" Processor,,Intel Core i3-2100 @ 3.10GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7 970 @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7 X 990 @ 3.47GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores) Motherboard,,SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra,SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra,ASRock X58 Super,ASRock X58 Super,ASRock X58 Super,ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Chipset,,Intel Sandy Bridge,Intel Sandy Bridge,Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R,Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R,Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family Memory,,3072MB,3072MB,3072MB,3072MB,3072MB,7680MB Disk,,250GB Seagate ST3250310AS,250GB Seagate ST3250310AS,320GB Seagate ST3320620AS,320GB Seagate ST3320620AS,320GB Seagate ST3320620AS,120GB OCZ VERTEX3 MI + 120GB Seagate ST3120026AS + 200GB Western Digital WDC WD2000JD-22H Graphics,,ATI Device 6738,ATI Device 6738 (960/1150MHz),NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB (675/1100MHz),NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB (675/1100MHz),NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB (675/1100MHz),Intel 2nd Generation Core Family IGP 256MB Monitor,,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W,V243HL Audio,,,,Realtek ALC889A,Realtek ALC889A,Realtek ALC889A,Realtek ALC892 OS,,Ubuntu 10.10,Ubuntu 10.10,Ubuntu 10.10,Ubuntu 10.10,Ubuntu 10.10,Ubuntu 11.04 Kernel,,2.6.38-999-generic (x86_64),2.6.38-999-generic (x86_64),2.6.38-020638-generic (x86_64),2.6.38-020638-generic (x86_64),2.6.38-020638-generic (x86_64),2.6.38-11-generic (x86_64) Desktop,,GNOME 2.32.0,GNOME 2.32.0,GNOME 2.32.0,GNOME 2.32.0,GNOME 2.32.0,KDE 4.7.00 Display Server,,X Server 1.9.0,X Server 1.9.0,X Server 1.9.0,X Server 1.9.0,X Server 1.9.0,X Server 1.10.1 Display Driver,,vesa 2.3.0,radeon 6.14.99,nouveau 0.0.16,nouveau 0.0.16,nouveau 0.0.16,intel 2.14.0 OpenGL,,2.1 Mesa 7.9-devel,2.1 Mesa 7.11-devel Gallium 0.4,,2.1 Mesa 7.9-devel,, Compiler,,GCC 4.4.5,GCC 4.4.5,GCC 4.4.5,GCC 4.4.5 + Clang 4.2.1 + llvm 2.6,GCC 4.4.5,GCC 4.5.2 File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,1280x1024,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080 ,,"Core i3 2100","Core i5 2500K","Core i7 920","Core i7 970","Core i7 990X","Core i5 2500K Fatbox Default" "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,46.09,74.17,74.53,113.53,135.23,72.87 "FFmpeg - AVI To NTSC VCD (sec)",LIB,13.11,10.98,15.03,13.15,12.17,11.04 "LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,22.94,19.22,28.44,25.39,22.45,19.63 "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,7712,12611,13702,20413,23951,11723 "Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,19.96,11.23,10.95,7.02,6.05,15.60 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,286.89,341.45,199.75,451.60,286.30,384.32 "Bullet Physics Engine - Test: 3000 Fall (sec)",LIB,15.52,12.36,16.19,14.21,12.91,13.54 "Bullet Physics Engine - Test: 1000 Stack (sec)",LIB,18.33,14.11,19.37,16.59,15.22,15.18 "Bullet Physics Engine - Test: 136 Ragdolls (sec)",LIB,8.61,6.52,8.50,7.71,7.00,7.02 "Bullet Physics Engine - Test: 1000 Convex (sec)",LIB,11.21,8.83,12.28,10.59,9.77,11.59 "Bullet Physics Engine - Test: Prim Trimesh (sec)",LIB,11.21,9.12,12.43,10.78,9.99,9.39 "Bullet Physics Engine - Test: Convex Trimesh (sec)",LIB,20.59,17.03,23.41,20.00,18.56,21.30 "Bullet Physics Engine - Test: Raytests (sec)",LIB,24.01,19.88,27.40,23.40,21.66,24.84 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,128.42,61.65,71.29,34.02,35.94,55.17 "POV-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,847,708,936,788,730,711 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,225,144,144,91,72,148 "Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,25.01,15.22,16.75,11.71,10.27,15.69 "Minion - Benchmark: Solitaire (sec)",LIB,143.97,115.05,185.81,187.49,166.80,114.05 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.B (Mop/s)",HIB,3675.74,6574.63,4647.54,3246.42,3959.76,5489.59 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: IS.C (Mop/s)",HIB,156.25,184.42,124.31,133.89,148.22,177.52 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,5207.57,9338.24,8238.34,9827.74,11466.98,8638.99 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,4211.86,5760.77,4560.75,4361.57,4525.79,5137.97 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,21.63,35.03,35.66,49.24,55.75,31.77 "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,73.15,86.53,45.68,53.43,57.73,86.43 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,40,49,57,79,89,49 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,96,123,103,128,143,119 "TTSIOD 3D Renderer - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping (FPS)",HIB,62.19,108.60,118.00,179.86,210.95,97.58 "Timed Apache Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,34.99,24.07,30.35,22.79,23.29,25.22 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,612.55,352.71,366.38,258.29,227.78, "PostgreSQL pgbench - TPC-B Transactions Per Second (TPS)",HIB,146.54,148.17,,148.01,,