Intel Core i7 3960X Linux, Intel Sandy Bridge vs. AMD Bulldozer, Intel Core i5 2500K 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 Sandy Bridge vs. AMD Bulldozer: Intel Core i5 2500K Sandy Bridge, Intel Core i5 2400S Sandy Bridge, AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer benchmarking under Linux with an early Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin 64-bit snapshot on the Linux 3.2 kernel. Testing by Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com. Intel Core i5 2500K: Intel Core i5 2500K benchmarking under Linux with an early Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin 64-bit snapshot on the Linux 3.2 kernel. Testing by Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com. ,,"Intel Core i7 3960X","AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.60GHz","Core i5 2500K","Core i5 2400S","FX-8150","Intel Core i5 2500K: Core i5 2500K","Intel Core i5 2500K: Core i5 2400S" Processor,,Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2400S @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores),AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.61GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2400S @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores) Motherboard,,Intel DX79SI,Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H,ASRock Z68 Pro3,ASRock Z68 Pro3,ASUS Crosshair V Formula,ASRock Z68 Pro3,ASRock Z68 Pro3 Chipset,,Intel Sandy DMI2,AMD RS780 + SB700/SB800,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,ATI RD890,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM Memory,,16384MB,6144MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB Disk,,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,500GB Seagate ST3500320AS,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3 Graphics,,AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz),AMD Radeon HD 4250,AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz),AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz),AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz),AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz),AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz) Audio,,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892 Monitor,,DELL P2210H,SyncMaster,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H Network,,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS,,Ubuntu 12.04,Fedora 14,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04 Kernel,,3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),2.6.35.14-103.fc14.i686.PAE (i686),3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64) Desktop,,Unity 4.24.0,KDE 4.6.5,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0 Display Server,,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.9.5,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4 Display Driver,,fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11,radeon 6.13.99,fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11,fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11,fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11,fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11,fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11 OpenGL,,4.1.11251,2.1 Mesa 7.9,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251 Compiler,,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6.0,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6 File-System,,ext4,ext2/ext3,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1280x1024,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080 ,,"Intel Core i7 3960X","AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.60GHz","Core i5 2500K","Core i5 2400S","FX-8150","Intel Core i5 2500K: Core i5 2500K","Intel Core i5 2500K: Core i5 2400S" "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,,,12802,10244,17915,, "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,36.23,170.32,53.28,69.35,51.05,, "CLOMP - Static OMP Speedup (Speedup)",HIB,,,3.19,2.74,2.46,, "FFmpeg - AVI To NTSC VCD (sec)",LIB,,,16.00,16.32,9.98,, "FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,,,6.19,6.94,7.85,, "GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,,,165,142,165,, "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Blur (Iterations/min)",HIB,,,97,81,100,, "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,,,51,41,68,, "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,,,128,107,133,, "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,,,48,38,65,, "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,,,1413.80,1254.82,374.17,, "John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,,,5060667,4513333,4298667,, "John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,,,14389,12815,15381,, "John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,,,916,817,1002,, "LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,,,14.27,16.01,19.56,, "Minion - Benchmark: Bibd (sec)",LIB,,,121.11,135.79,167.25,, "Minion - Benchmark: Graceful (sec)",LIB,,,70.09,78.21,86.34,, "Minion - Benchmark: Quasigroup (sec)",LIB,,,157.50,178.03,198.52,, "Minion - Benchmark: Solitaire (sec)",LIB,,,111.31,124.86,160.48,, "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: BT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,,,11946.95,9566.81,11152.49,, "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: CG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,,,2786.72,2430.27,2495.38,, "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s)",HIB,,,133.90,102.44,163.08,, "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.B (Mop/s)",HIB,,,6013.74,4819.31,6410.04,, "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: IS.C (Mop/s)",HIB,,,182.66,163.66,107.33,, "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,,,10228.12,8174.35,11631.05,, "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,,,6318.83,5795.93,4369.39,, "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,,,6179.97,5435.51,5378.85,, "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,,,36.98,31.33,40.14,, "Nexuiz - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On (FPS)",HIB,,,135.89,123.11,116.74,, "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,,,86.88,77.65,68.50,, "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,67,240,150,199,104,, "Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,,,14.56,18.74,13.52,, "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,58.76,118.48,105.01,134.10,89.17,, "Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,,,19.59,21.90,26.07,, "Timed PHP Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,,,32.65,39.71,30.39,, "TSCP - AI Chess Performance (Nodes/s)",HIB,,,531438,472953,314371,, "TTSIOD 3D Renderer - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping (FPS)",HIB,,,111.59,88.30,128.30,, "VP8 libvpx Encoding - vpxenc (FPS)",HIB,,,27.86,21.98,20.54,, "Warsow - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,,,355.73,323.97,353.92,, "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,,,96.53,77.13,135.76,, "Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,,,218.17,212.43,232.40,,