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.
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Intel Core i7 3960X Linux, Intel Sandy Bridge vs. AMD Bulldozer, Intel Core i5 2500K Processor Motherboard Chipset Memory Disk Graphics Audio Monitor Network OS Kernel Desktop Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Compiler File-System Screen Resolution 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 Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores) Intel DX79SI Intel Sandy DMI2 16384MB 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz) Realtek ALC892 DELL P2210H Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection Ubuntu 12.04 3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64) Unity 4.24.0 X Server 1.10.4 fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11 4.1.11251 GCC 4.6 ext4 1920x1080 AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores) Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AMD RS780 + SB700/SB800 6144MB 500GB Seagate ST3500320AS AMD Radeon HD 4250 SyncMaster Realtek RTL8111/8168B Fedora 14 2.6.35.14-103.fc14.i686.PAE (i686) KDE 4.6.5 X Server 1.9.5 radeon 6.13.99 2.1 Mesa 7.9 GCC 4.6.0 ext2/ext3 1280x1024 Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores) ASRock Z68 Pro3 Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM 16384MB 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz) DELL P2210H Ubuntu 12.04 3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64) Unity 4.24.0 X Server 1.10.4 fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11 4.1.11251 GCC 4.6 ext4 1920x1080 Intel Core i5-2400S @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores) AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.61GHz (8 Cores) ASUS Crosshair V Formula ATI RD890 Realtek ALC889 Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores) ASRock Z68 Pro3 Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM Realtek ALC892 Realtek RTL8111/8168B Intel Core i5-2400S @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores) OpenBenchmarking.org System Details - Intel Core i7 3960X: Compiz was running on this system. - AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.60GHz: Firefox was running on this system. AMD CnQ was enabled. - Core i5 2500K: Compiz was running on this system. - Core i5 2400S: Compiz was running on this system. - FX-8150: Compiz was running on this system. - Intel Core i5 2500K: Core i5 2500K: Compiz was running on this system. - Intel Core i5 2500K: Core i5 2400S: Compiz was running on this system.
Intel Core i7 3960X Linux, Intel Sandy Bridge vs. AMD Bulldozer, Intel Core i5 2500K ttsiod-renderer: Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping nexuiz: 1920 x 1080 - Yes - On xonotic: 1920 x 1080 warsow: 1920 x 1080 vpxenc: vpxenc x264: H.264 Video Encoding graphics-magick: HWB Color Space graphics-magick: Blur graphics-magick: Local Adaptive Thresholding graphics-magick: Resizing graphics-magick: Sharpen himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver compress-7zip: Compress Speed Test tscp: AI Chess Performance john-the-ripper: Traditional DES john-the-ripper: MD5 john-the-ripper: Blowfish openssl: RSA 4096-bit Performance clomp: Static OMP Speedup npb: BT.A npb: CG.B npb: EP.B npb: FT.B npb: IS.C npb: LU.A npb: MG.B npb: SP.A npb: UA.A build-linux-kernel: Time To Compile c-ray: Total Time smallpt: Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples build-php: Time To Compile ffmpeg: AVI To NTSC VCD encode-flac: WAV To FLAC encode-mp3: WAV To MP3 mafft: Multiple Sequence Alignment hmmer: Pfam Database Search minion: Bibd minion: Graceful minion: Quasigroup minion: Solitaire 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 58.76 36.23 67 118.48 170.32 240 111.59 135.89 218.17 355.73 27.86 96.53 165 97 51 128 48 1413.80 12802 531438 5060667 14389 916 86.88 3.19 11946.95 2786.72 133.90 6013.74 182.66 10228.12 6318.83 6179.97 36.98 105.01 53.28 150 32.65 16.00 6.19 14.27 19.59 14.56 121.11 70.09 157.50 111.31 88.30 123.11 212.43 323.97 21.98 77.13 142 81 41 107 38 1254.82 10244 472953 4513333 12815 817 77.65 2.74 9566.81 2430.27 102.44 4819.31 163.66 8174.35 5795.93 5435.51 31.33 134.10 69.35 199 39.71 16.32 6.94 16.01 21.90 18.74 135.79 78.21 178.03 124.86 128.30 116.74 232.40 353.92 20.54 135.76 165 100 68 133 65 374.17 17915 314371 4298667 15381 1002 68.50 2.46 11152.49 2495.38 163.08 6410.04 107.33 11631.05 4369.39 5378.85 40.14 89.17 51.05 104 30.39 9.98 7.85 19.56 26.07 13.52 167.25 86.34 198.52 160.48 OpenBenchmarking.org
TTSIOD 3D Renderer Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping OpenBenchmarking.org FPS, More Is Better TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2w Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.18, N = 3 SE +/- 0.18, N = 3 88.30 111.59 128.30
Nexuiz Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 SE +/- 0.56, N = 3 SE +/- 0.19, N = 3 123.11 135.89 116.74
Xonotic Resolution: 1920 x 1080 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Xonotic 0.5 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 0.23, N = 3 SE +/- 0.41, N = 3 SE +/- 0.91, N = 3 212.43 218.17 232.40
Warsow Resolution: 1920 x 1080 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Warsow 0.61 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 80 160 240 320 400 SE +/- 0.62, N = 3 SE +/- 0.74, N = 3 SE +/- 4.92, N = 6 323.97 355.73 353.92
VP8 libvpx Encoding vpxenc OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1 vpxenc Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 7 14 21 28 35 SE +/- 0.21, N = 3 SE +/- 0.20, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 21.98 27.86 20.54
x264 H.264 Video Encoding OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better x264 2011-12-06 H.264 Video Encoding Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.47, N = 3 SE +/- 0.44, N = 3 SE +/- 0.35, N = 3 77.13 96.53 135.76
GraphicsMagick Operation: HWB Color Space OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: HWB Color Space Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 142 165 165
GraphicsMagick Operation: Blur OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Blur Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.67, N = 3 81 97 100
GraphicsMagick Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 15 30 45 60 75 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 41 51 68
GraphicsMagick Operation: Resizing OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 107 128 133
GraphicsMagick Operation: Sharpen OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Sharpen Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 15 30 45 60 75 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 38 48 65
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 13.50, N = 3 SE +/- 11.35, N = 3 SE +/- 0.82, N = 3 1254.82 1413.80 374.17
7-Zip Compression Compress Speed Test OpenBenchmarking.org MIPS, More Is Better 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 4K 8K 12K 16K 20K SE +/- 7.64, N = 3 SE +/- 12.77, N = 3 SE +/- 251.61, N = 3 10244 12802 17915
TSCP AI Chess Performance OpenBenchmarking.org Nodes Per Second, More Is Better TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 110K 220K 330K 440K 550K SE +/- 1555.49, N = 5 SE +/- 769.75, N = 5 SE +/- 179.50, N = 5 472953 531438 314371
John The Ripper Test: Traditional DES OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Traditional DES Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 1.1M 2.2M 3.3M 4.4M 5.5M SE +/- 6064.47, N = 3 SE +/- 4807.40, N = 3 SE +/- 6691.62, N = 3 4513333 5060667 4298667
John The Ripper Test: MD5 OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: MD5 Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 3K 6K 9K 12K 15K SE +/- 0.88, N = 3 SE +/- 8.25, N = 3 SE +/- 17.19, N = 3 12815 14389 15381
John The Ripper Test: Blowfish OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Blowfish Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 817 916 1002
OpenSSL RSA 4096-bit Performance OpenBenchmarking.org Signs Per Second, More Is Better OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.28, N = 4 SE +/- 0.25, N = 4 SE +/- 0.32, N = 4 77.65 86.88 68.50
CLOMP Static OMP Speedup OpenBenchmarking.org Speedup, More Is Better CLOMP 3.3 Static OMP Speedup Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 0.7178 1.4356 2.1534 2.8712 3.589 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 SE +/- 0.03, N = 5 2.74 3.19 2.46
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: BT.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: BT.A Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 3K 6K 9K 12K 15K SE +/- 2.08, N = 3 SE +/- 2.89, N = 3 SE +/- 45.59, N = 3 9566.81 11946.95 11152.49
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: CG.B OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: CG.B Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 600 1200 1800 2400 3000 SE +/- 1.25, N = 3 SE +/- 4.76, N = 3 SE +/- 1.28, N = 3 2430.27 2786.72 2495.38
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: EP.B OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 1.75, N = 3 102.44 133.90 163.08
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 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 1400 2800 4200 5600 7000 SE +/- 1.91, N = 3 SE +/- 1.89, N = 3 SE +/- 15.81, N = 3 4819.31 6013.74 6410.04
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 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 163.66 182.66 107.33
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 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 16.04, N = 3 SE +/- 27.88, N = 3 SE +/- 12.44, N = 3 8174.35 10228.12 11631.05
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 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 1400 2800 4200 5600 7000 SE +/- 8.98, N = 3 SE +/- 5.42, N = 3 SE +/- 1.83, N = 3 5795.93 6318.83 4369.39
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: SP.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 1300 2600 3900 5200 6500 SE +/- 8.18, N = 3 SE +/- 10.88, N = 3 SE +/- 35.06, N = 3 5435.51 6179.97 5378.85
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 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 9 18 27 36 45 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 31.33 36.98 40.14
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.60GHz Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 Intel Core i7 3960X 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.98, N = 3 SE +/- 0.65, N = 3 SE +/- 0.58, N = 3 SE +/- 0.64, N = 3 SE +/- 0.70, N = 3 118.48 134.10 105.01 89.17 58.76
C-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.60GHz Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 Intel Core i7 3960X 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.17, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.69, N = 3 170.32 69.35 53.28 51.05 36.23
Smallpt Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.60GHz Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 Intel Core i7 3960X 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 2.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 240 199 150 104 67
Timed PHP Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 9 18 27 36 45 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 39.71 32.65 30.39
FFmpeg AVI To NTSC VCD OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FFmpeg 0.8.7 AVI To NTSC VCD Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 4 8 12 16 20 SE +/- 0.18, N = 3 SE +/- 0.21, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 16.32 16.00 9.98
FLAC Audio Encoding WAV To FLAC OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 WAV To FLAC Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 2 4 6 8 10 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 6.94 6.19 7.85
LAME MP3 Encoding WAV To MP3 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 5 10 15 20 25 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 SE +/- 0.02, N = 5 16.01 14.27 19.56
Timed MAFFT Alignment Multiple Sequence Alignment OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 21.90 19.59 26.07
Timed HMMer Search Pfam Database Search OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 5 10 15 20 25 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.20, N = 6 18.74 14.56 13.52
Minion Benchmark: Bibd OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Bibd Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.34, N = 3 SE +/- 0.34, N = 3 SE +/- 0.67, N = 3 135.79 121.11 167.25
Minion Benchmark: Graceful OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Graceful Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.17, N = 3 78.21 70.09 86.34
Minion Benchmark: Quasigroup OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Quasigroup Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 1.21, N = 3 SE +/- 0.24, N = 3 SE +/- 1.10, N = 3 178.03 157.50 198.52
Minion Benchmark: Solitaire OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Solitaire Core i5 2400S Core i5 2500K FX-8150 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.51, N = 3 SE +/- 0.23, N = 3 SE +/- 0.99, N = 3 124.86 111.31 160.48
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