Benchmarks of the Intel Core i7 3960X "Sandy Bridge" Extreme Edition processor under Linux. Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel. The Core i7 3960X has a base frequency of 3.3GHz, Turbo Boost of 3.9GHz, six physical cores plus Hyper Threading, etc.
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Intel Core i7 3960X Extreme On Linux
Benchmarks of the Intel Core i7 3960X "Sandy Bridge" Extreme Edition processor under Linux. Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel. The Core i7 3960X has a base frequency of 3.3GHz, Turbo Boost of 3.9GHz, six physical cores plus Hyper Threading, etc.
,,"Core i5 2500K","Core i5 2400S","FX-8150","Fusion A8-3850","Core i7 990X","Core i7 970","Core i7 920","Core i7 870","Core i7 3960X","Core i7 3960X @ 4.5GHz","Phenom 1090T"
Processor,,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),AMD A8-3850 APU with Radeon HD @ 2.90GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i7 990X @ 3.47GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7 970 @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core 870 @ 2.67GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores),AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @ 3.20GHz (6 Cores)
Motherboard,,ASRock Z68 Pro3,ASRock Z68 Pro3,ASUS Crosshair V Formula,SAPPHIRE Pure Platinum A75,MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0,MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0,MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0,ECS P55H-A v1.0,Intel DX79SI,Intel DX79SI,Gigabyte GA-MA78LMT-US2H
Chipset,,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,ATI RD890,AMD Family 12h Root Complex,Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R,Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R,Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R,Intel Core DMI,Intel Sandy DMI2,Intel Sandy DMI2,AMD RS780 + SB700/SB800
Memory,,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,8192MB,16384MB,16384MB,8192MB
Disk,,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,500GB Seagate ST3500418AS + 2 x 2000GB Seagate ST32000641AS
Graphics,,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),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,AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB,ATI Radeon 3000 512MB
Audio,,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC1200,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC887
Monitor,,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,VA2431,VA2431,VA2431,Acer P243W,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,BenQ V2400Eco
Network,,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection,Marvell Yukon Optima 88E8059,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Realtek RTL8111/8168B
OS,,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 10.04
Kernel,,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),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),2.6.32-37-generic (x86_64)
Desktop,,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,GNOME 2.30.2
Display Server,,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,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,X Server 1.7.6
Display Driver,,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,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,fglrx 8.91.4,fglrx 8.72.11
OpenGL,,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,3.2.9756
Compiler,,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.4.3
File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4
Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080
,,"Core i5 2500K","Core i5 2400S","FX-8150","Fusion A8-3850","Core i7 990X","Core i7 970","Core i7 920","Core i7 870","Core i7 3960X","Core i7 3960X @ 4.5GHz","Phenom 1090T"
"TTSIOD 3D Renderer - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping (FPS)",HIB,111.59,88.30,128.30,57.39,166.57,157.93,103.09,116.60,201.77,222.51,53.09
"Nexuiz - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On (FPS)",HIB,135.89,123.11,116.74,85.55,132.02,123.62,103.27,119.12,144.79,150.51,11.84
"Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,218.17,212.43,232.40,146.24,209.67,202.77,178.81,202.44,225.03,225.61,9.61
"Warsow - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,355.73,323.97,353.92,223.70,307.27,290.50,243.80,292.83,355.17,379.67,12.93
"VP8 libvpx Encoding - vpxenc (FPS)",HIB,27.86,21.98,20.54,14.42,22.49,21.28,16.86,18.29,26.68,32.54,17.82
"x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,96.53,77.13,135.76,63.23,170.36,160.35,95.77,105.70,190.84,223.28,100.83
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,165,142,165,117,171,159,127,151,197,229,144
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Blur (Iterations/min)",HIB,97,81,100,73,126,118,90,105,142,166,85
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,51,41,68,44,92,87,60,68,98,117,61
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,128,107,133,99,153,143,110,130,176,206,125
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,48,38,65,47,94,88,59,68,103,122,68
"Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,1413.80,1254.82,374.17,428.85,1204.00,1137.82,950.14,1108.12,1440.31,1570.07,502.75
"7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,12802,10244,17915,9392,25535,24333,13392,14458,28433,33479,14343
"TSCP - AI Chess Performance (Nodes/s)",HIB,531438,472953,314371,244877,366501,340617,288154,333118,560988,645254,305140
"John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,5060667,4513333,4298667,3047000,4129000,3837000,3259333,3872000,5342000,6127667,3373667
"John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,14389,12815,15381,13500,16838,15620,13215,15822,15195,17509,15958
"John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,916,817,1002,886,1046,970,820,983,966,1114,1011
"OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,86.88,77.65,68.50,53.28,57.93,53.60,45.45,54.20,92.10,105.88,68.50
"CLOMP - Static OMP Speedup (Speedup)",HIB,3.19,2.74,2.46,3.00,5.56,5.50,5.19,4.81,5.38,5.43,3.00
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: BT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,11946.95,9566.81,11152.49,7496.09,13758.89,13189.01,8518.29,7855.60,18413.34,22115.01,9868.41
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: CG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,2786.72,2430.27,2495.38,1086.34,2272.01,2247.61,1608.07,1323.67,3518.99,3955.22,1793.77
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s)",HIB,133.90,102.44,163.08,84.16,296.10,281.37,160.43,172.10,333.11,407.96,141.70
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.B (Mop/s)",HIB,6013.74,4819.31,6410.04,3876.36,4622.49,4609.44,3161.80,3132.82,10124.84,12113.11,5550.24
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: IS.C (Mop/s)",HIB,182.66,163.66,107.33,96.31,152.26,143.33,115.80,109.42,188.60,216.23,93.27
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,10228.12,8174.35,11631.05,6085.41,12594.63,12560.50,8202.50,7465.63,17353.46,20556.37,7154.09
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,6318.83,5795.93,4369.39,3248.07,4730.60,4711.02,3489.41,2303.98,10576.23,11353.19,3714.12
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,6179.97,5435.51,5378.85,3493.40,5143.75,5105.15,3387.24,2510.55,10076.13,11321.08,3824.32
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,36.98,31.33,40.14,20.28,56.22,54.49,29.04,24.57,81.58,94.66,28.55
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,105.01,134.10,89.17,150.98,62.64,65.54,113.43,104.58,58.93,49.56,100.98
"Timed PHP Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,32.65,39.71,30.39,52.59,21.83,22.83,35.95,33.02,20.60,17.58,31.00
"C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,53.28,69.35,51.05,105.04,35.70,38.66,66.95,65.13,35.27,28.71,71.67
"Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,150,199,104,211,76,82,147,141,67,54,125
"FFmpeg - AVI To NTSC VCD (sec)",LIB,16.00,16.32,9.98,29.19,22.09,22.03,20.10,22.47,22.77,20.74,27.26
"FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,6.19,6.94,7.85,9.13,7.68,8.27,9.79,8.10,5.88,5.24,7.47
"LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,14.27,16.01,19.56,23.45,16.75,18.05,21.34,17.68,13.53,11.85,19.53
"Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,19.59,21.90,26.07,32.81,21.92,23.59,27.97,23.83,18.26,15.87,28.25
"Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,14.56,18.74,13.52,20.73,13.83,14.67,21.95,24.44,8.77,7.12,14.75
"Minion - Benchmark: Bibd (sec)",LIB,121.11,135.79,167.25,366.35,149.71,159.13,188.13,161.35,121.10,106.23,259.44
"Minion - Benchmark: Graceful (sec)",LIB,70.09,78.21,86.34,122.04,81.59,86.72,104.05,87.56,69.59,60.66,102.55
"Minion - Benchmark: Quasigroup (sec)",LIB,157.50,178.03,198.52,237.11,182.06,194.96,232.71,203.05,156.49,136.06,193.62
"Minion - Benchmark: Solitaire (sec)",LIB,111.31,124.86,160.48,384.00,150.41,159.43,188.14,161.33,115.68,99.65,247.72