First tests of the Intel Core i7 3960X Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition processor under Linux. Using an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit snapshot with the Linux 3.2 kernel. More tests are on the way on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel. Thanks to Intel Corp for sending out the Core i7 3960X, the Intel X79 motherboard, and the Intel water cooling kit for Sandy-E.
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Intel Core i7 3960X Linux
First tests of the Intel Core i7 3960X Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition processor under Linux. Using an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit snapshot with the Linux 3.2 kernel. More tests are on the way on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel. Thanks to Intel Corp for sending out the Core i7 3960X, the Intel X79 motherboard, and the Intel water cooling kit for Sandy-E.
,,"Intel Core i7 3960X","AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.60GHz","AMD Phenom II x6 1100T @ 3.71GHz"
Processor,,Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores),AMD Phenom II X6 1100T @ 3.70GHz (6 Cores)
Motherboard,,Intel DX79SI,Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H,ASUS M4A89GTD-PRO/USB3
Chipset,,Intel Sandy DMI2,AMD RS780 + SB700/SB800,AMD RS780
Memory,,16384MB,6144MB,2 x 4096 MB 800MHz
Disk,,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,500GB Seagate ST3500320AS,64GB PATRIOT 6 + 1000GB Western Digital WDC WD10EARS-003 + 320GB Western Digital WDC WD3200AAKS-0 + 160GB SAMSUNG HM160HI
Graphics,,AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz),AMD Radeon HD 4250,ATI Device 9714
Audio,,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,ATI RS690/780 HDMI
Monitor,,DELL P2210H,SyncMaster,SyncMaster
Network,,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B
OS,,Ubuntu 12.04,Fedora 14,Gentoo 2.1
Kernel,,3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),2.6.35.14-103.fc14.i686.PAE (i686),3.1.1-hardened-gerge-v (x86_64)
Desktop,,Unity 4.24.0,KDE 4.6.5,KDE 4.7.3
Display Server,,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.9.5,X Server 1.11.0
Display Driver,,fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11,radeon 6.13.99,radeon 6.14.99
OpenGL,,4.1.11251,2.1 Mesa 7.9,
Compiler,,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6.0,GCC 4.6.1 + Clang 4.2.1
File-System,,ext4,ext2/ext3,ext2/ext3
Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1280x1024,2048x1152
,,"Intel Core i7 3960X","AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.60GHz","AMD Phenom II x6 1100T @ 3.71GHz"
"Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,67,240,113
"C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,36.23,170.32,71.18
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,58.76,118.48,93.73