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 clomp: Static OMP Speedup graphics-magick: Sharpen graphics-magick: Resizing graphics-magick: Local Adaptive Thresholding graphics-magick: Blur graphics-magick: HWB Color Space npb: UA.A npb: SP.A npb: MG.B npb: LU.A npb: IS.C npb: FT.B npb: EP.B npb: CG.B npb: BT.A minion: Solitaire minion: Quasigroup minion: Graceful minion: Bibd hmmer: Pfam Database Search mafft: Multiple Sequence Alignment himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver john-the-ripper: Blowfish john-the-ripper: MD5 john-the-ripper: Traditional DES openssl: RSA 4096-bit Performance encode-mp3: WAV To MP3 encode-flac: WAV To FLAC ffmpeg: AVI To NTSC VCD x264: H.264 Video Encoding vpxenc: vpxenc tscp: AI Chess Performance compress-7zip: Compress Speed Test build-php: Time To Compile warsow: 1920 x 1080 xonotic: 1920 x 1080 nexuiz: 1920 x 1080 - Yes - On smallpt: Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples c-ray: Total Time build-linux-kernel: Time To Compile 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 67 36.23 58.76 240 170.32 118.48 111.59 3.19 48 128 51 97 165 36.98 6179.97 6318.83 10228.12 182.66 6013.74 133.90 2786.72 11946.95 111.31 157.50 70.09 121.11 14.56 19.59 1413.80 916 14389 5060667 86.88 14.27 6.19 16.00 96.53 27.86 531438 12802 32.65 355.73 218.17 135.89 150 53.28 105.01 88.30 2.74 38 107 41 81 142 31.33 5435.51 5795.93 8174.35 163.66 4819.31 102.44 2430.27 9566.81 124.86 178.03 78.21 135.79 18.74 21.90 1254.82 817 12815 4513333 77.65 16.01 6.94 16.32 77.13 21.98 472953 10244 39.71 323.97 212.43 123.11 199 69.35 134.10 128.30 2.46 65 133 68 100 165 40.14 5378.85 4369.39 11631.05 107.33 6410.04 163.08 2495.38 11152.49 160.48 198.52 86.34 167.25 13.52 26.07 374.17 1002 15381 4298667 68.50 19.56 7.85 9.98 135.76 20.54 314371 17915 30.39 353.92 232.40 116.74 104 51.05 89.17 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 FX-8150 Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.18, N = 3 SE +/- 0.18, N = 3 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 128.30 111.59 88.30
CLOMP Static OMP Speedup OpenBenchmarking.org Speedup, More Is Better CLOMP 3.3 Static OMP Speedup Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S FX-8150 0.7178 1.4356 2.1534 2.8712 3.589 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.03, N = 5 3.19 2.74 2.46
GraphicsMagick Operation: Sharpen OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Sharpen FX-8150 Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S 15 30 45 60 75 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 65 48 38
GraphicsMagick Operation: Resizing OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing FX-8150 Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 133 128 107
GraphicsMagick Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding FX-8150 Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S 15 30 45 60 75 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 68 51 41
GraphicsMagick Operation: Blur OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Blur FX-8150 Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.67, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 100 97 81
GraphicsMagick Operation: HWB Color Space OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: HWB Color Space FX-8150 Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 165 165 142
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: UA.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A FX-8150 Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S 9 18 27 36 45 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 40.14 36.98 31.33
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 2500K Core i5 2400S FX-8150 1300 2600 3900 5200 6500 SE +/- 10.88, N = 3 SE +/- 8.18, N = 3 SE +/- 35.06, N = 3 6179.97 5435.51 5378.85
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 i5 2400S FX-8150 1400 2800 4200 5600 7000 SE +/- 5.42, N = 3 SE +/- 8.98, N = 3 SE +/- 1.83, N = 3 6318.83 5795.93 4369.39
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: LU.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A FX-8150 Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 12.44, N = 3 SE +/- 27.88, N = 3 SE +/- 16.04, N = 3 11631.05 10228.12 8174.35
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 i5 2400S FX-8150 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 182.66 163.66 107.33
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: FT.B OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: FT.B FX-8150 Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S 1400 2800 4200 5600 7000 SE +/- 15.81, N = 3 SE +/- 1.89, N = 3 SE +/- 1.91, N = 3 6410.04 6013.74 4819.31
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: EP.B OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B FX-8150 Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 1.75, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 163.08 133.90 102.44
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 2500K FX-8150 Core i5 2400S 600 1200 1800 2400 3000 SE +/- 4.76, N = 3 SE +/- 1.28, N = 3 SE +/- 1.25, N = 3 2786.72 2495.38 2430.27
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 2500K FX-8150 Core i5 2400S 3K 6K 9K 12K 15K SE +/- 2.89, N = 3 SE +/- 45.59, N = 3 SE +/- 2.08, N = 3 11946.95 11152.49 9566.81
Minion Benchmark: Solitaire OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Solitaire Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S FX-8150 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.23, N = 3 SE +/- 0.51, N = 3 SE +/- 0.99, N = 3 111.31 124.86 160.48
Minion Benchmark: Quasigroup OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Quasigroup Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S FX-8150 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.24, N = 3 SE +/- 1.21, N = 3 SE +/- 1.10, N = 3 157.50 178.03 198.52
Minion Benchmark: Graceful OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Graceful Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S FX-8150 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.17, N = 3 70.09 78.21 86.34
Minion Benchmark: Bibd OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Bibd Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S FX-8150 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.34, N = 3 SE +/- 0.34, N = 3 SE +/- 0.67, N = 3 121.11 135.79 167.25
Timed HMMer Search Pfam Database Search OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search FX-8150 Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S 5 10 15 20 25 SE +/- 0.20, N = 6 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 13.52 14.56 18.74
Timed MAFFT Alignment Multiple Sequence Alignment OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S FX-8150 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 19.59 21.90 26.07
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S FX-8150 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 11.35, N = 3 SE +/- 13.50, N = 3 SE +/- 0.82, N = 3 1413.80 1254.82 374.17
John The Ripper Test: Blowfish OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Blowfish FX-8150 Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 1002 916 817
John The Ripper Test: MD5 OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: MD5 FX-8150 Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S 3K 6K 9K 12K 15K SE +/- 17.19, N = 3 SE +/- 8.25, N = 3 SE +/- 0.88, N = 3 15381 14389 12815
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 2500K Core i5 2400S FX-8150 1.1M 2.2M 3.3M 4.4M 5.5M SE +/- 4807.40, N = 3 SE +/- 6064.47, N = 3 SE +/- 6691.62, N = 3 5060667 4513333 4298667
OpenSSL RSA 4096-bit Performance OpenBenchmarking.org Signs Per Second, More Is Better OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S FX-8150 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.25, N = 4 SE +/- 0.28, N = 4 SE +/- 0.32, N = 4 86.88 77.65 68.50
LAME MP3 Encoding WAV To MP3 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S FX-8150 5 10 15 20 25 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.02, N = 5 14.27 16.01 19.56
FLAC Audio Encoding WAV To FLAC OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 WAV To FLAC Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S FX-8150 2 4 6 8 10 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 6.19 6.94 7.85
FFmpeg AVI To NTSC VCD OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FFmpeg 0.8.7 AVI To NTSC VCD FX-8150 Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S 4 8 12 16 20 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.21, N = 3 SE +/- 0.18, N = 3 9.98 16.00 16.32
x264 H.264 Video Encoding OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better x264 2011-12-06 H.264 Video Encoding FX-8150 Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.35, N = 3 SE +/- 0.44, N = 3 SE +/- 0.47, N = 3 135.76 96.53 77.13
VP8 libvpx Encoding vpxenc OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1 vpxenc Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S FX-8150 7 14 21 28 35 SE +/- 0.20, N = 3 SE +/- 0.21, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 27.86 21.98 20.54
TSCP AI Chess Performance OpenBenchmarking.org Nodes Per Second, More Is Better TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S FX-8150 110K 220K 330K 440K 550K SE +/- 769.75, N = 5 SE +/- 1555.49, N = 5 SE +/- 179.50, N = 5 531438 472953 314371
7-Zip Compression Compress Speed Test OpenBenchmarking.org MIPS, More Is Better 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test FX-8150 Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S 4K 8K 12K 16K 20K SE +/- 251.61, N = 3 SE +/- 12.77, N = 3 SE +/- 7.64, N = 3 17915 12802 10244
Timed PHP Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile FX-8150 Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S 9 18 27 36 45 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 30.39 32.65 39.71
Warsow Resolution: 1920 x 1080 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Warsow 0.61 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Core i5 2500K FX-8150 Core i5 2400S 80 160 240 320 400 SE +/- 0.74, N = 3 SE +/- 4.92, N = 6 SE +/- 0.62, N = 3 355.73 353.92 323.97
Xonotic Resolution: 1920 x 1080 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Xonotic 0.5 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 FX-8150 Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 0.91, N = 3 SE +/- 0.41, N = 3 SE +/- 0.23, N = 3 232.40 218.17 212.43
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 2500K Core i5 2400S FX-8150 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.56, N = 3 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 SE +/- 0.19, N = 3 135.89 123.11 116.74
Smallpt Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Intel Core i7 3960X FX-8150 Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.60GHz 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 2.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 67 104 150 199 240
C-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Intel Core i7 3960X FX-8150 Core i5 2500K Core i5 2400S AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.60GHz 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.69, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.17, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 36.23 51.05 53.28 69.35 170.32
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Intel Core i7 3960X FX-8150 Core i5 2500K AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.60GHz Core i5 2400S 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.70, N = 3 SE +/- 0.64, N = 3 SE +/- 0.58, N = 3 SE +/- 0.98, N = 3 SE +/- 0.65, N = 3 58.76 89.17 105.01 118.48 134.10
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