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.

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December 10 2011
 
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December 10 2011
 
Core i7 920
December 10 2011
 
Core i7 970
December 10 2011
 
Core i7 990X
December 10 2011
 
Core i5 2400S
December 09 2011
 
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December 09 2011
 
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December 11 2011
 
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December 12 2011
 
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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. ,,"Fusion A8-3850","FX-8150","Core i7 870","Core i7 920","Core i7 970","Core i7 990X","Core i5 2400S","Core i5 2500K","Core i7 3960X","Core i7 3960X @ 4.5GHz","Phenom 1090T" Processor,,AMD A8-3850 APU with Radeon HD @ 2.90GHz (4 Cores),AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.61GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core 870 @ 2.67GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7 970 @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7 990X @ 3.47GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i5-2400S @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 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,,SAPPHIRE Pure Platinum A75,ASUS Crosshair V Formula,ECS P55H-A v1.0,MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0,MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0,MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0,ASRock Z68 Pro3,ASRock Z68 Pro3,Intel DX79SI,Intel DX79SI,Gigabyte GA-MA78LMT-US2H Chipset,,AMD Family 12h Root Complex,ATI RD890,Intel Core DMI,Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R,Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R,Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,Intel Sandy DMI2,Intel Sandy DMI2,AMD RS780 + SB700/SB800 Memory,,16384MB,16384MB,8192MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,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 ALC889,Realtek ALC1200,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC887 Monitor,,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,Acer P243W,VA2431,VA2431,VA2431,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,BenQ V2400Eco Network,,Marvell Yukon Optima 88E8059,Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,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 ,,"Fusion A8-3850","FX-8150","Core i7 870","Core i7 920","Core i7 970","Core i7 990X","Core i5 2400S","Core i5 2500K","Core i7 3960X","Core i7 3960X @ 4.5GHz","Phenom 1090T" "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,9392,17915,14458,13392,24333,25535,10244,12802,28433,33479,14343 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,105.04,51.05,65.13,66.95,38.66,35.70,69.35,53.28,35.27,28.71,71.67 "CLOMP - Static OMP Speedup (Speedup)",HIB,3.00,2.46,4.81,5.19,5.50,5.56,2.74,3.19,5.38,5.43,3.00 "FFmpeg - AVI To NTSC VCD (sec)",LIB,29.19,9.98,22.47,20.10,22.03,22.09,16.32,16.00,22.77,20.74,27.26 "FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,9.13,7.85,8.10,9.79,8.27,7.68,6.94,6.19,5.88,5.24,7.47 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,117,165,151,127,159,171,142,165,197,229,144 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Blur (Iterations/min)",HIB,73,100,105,90,118,126,81,97,142,166,85 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,44,68,68,60,87,92,41,51,98,117,61 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,99,133,130,110,143,153,107,128,176,206,125 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,47,65,68,59,88,94,38,48,103,122,68 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,428.85,374.17,1108.12,950.14,1137.82,1204.00,1254.82,1413.80,1440.31,1570.07,502.75 "John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,3047000,4298667,3872000,3259333,3837000,4129000,4513333,5060667,5342000,6127667,3373667 "John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,13500,15381,15822,13215,15620,16838,12815,14389,15195,17509,15958 "John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,886,1002,983,820,970,1046,817,916,966,1114,1011 "LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,23.45,19.56,17.68,21.34,18.05,16.75,16.01,14.27,13.53,11.85,19.53 "Minion - Benchmark: Bibd (sec)",LIB,366.35,167.25,161.35,188.13,159.13,149.71,135.79,121.11,121.10,106.23,259.44 "Minion - Benchmark: Graceful (sec)",LIB,122.04,86.34,87.56,104.05,86.72,81.59,78.21,70.09,69.59,60.66,102.55 "Minion - Benchmark: Quasigroup (sec)",LIB,237.11,198.52,203.05,232.71,194.96,182.06,178.03,157.50,156.49,136.06,193.62 "Minion - Benchmark: Solitaire (sec)",LIB,384.00,160.48,161.33,188.14,159.43,150.41,124.86,111.31,115.68,99.65,247.72 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: BT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,7496.09,11152.49,7855.60,8518.29,13189.01,13758.89,9566.81,11946.95,18413.34,22115.01,9868.41 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: CG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,1086.34,2495.38,1323.67,1608.07,2247.61,2272.01,2430.27,2786.72,3518.99,3955.22,1793.77 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s)",HIB,84.16,163.08,172.10,160.43,281.37,296.10,102.44,133.90,333.11,407.96,141.70 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.B (Mop/s)",HIB,3876.36,6410.04,3132.82,3161.80,4609.44,4622.49,4819.31,6013.74,10124.84,12113.11,5550.24 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: IS.C (Mop/s)",HIB,96.31,107.33,109.42,115.80,143.33,152.26,163.66,182.66,188.60,216.23,93.27 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,6085.41,11631.05,7465.63,8202.50,12560.50,12594.63,8174.35,10228.12,17353.46,20556.37,7154.09 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,3248.07,4369.39,2303.98,3489.41,4711.02,4730.60,5795.93,6318.83,10576.23,11353.19,3714.12 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,3493.40,5378.85,2510.55,3387.24,5105.15,5143.75,5435.51,6179.97,10076.13,11321.08,3824.32 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,20.28,40.14,24.57,29.04,54.49,56.22,31.33,36.98,81.58,94.66,28.55 "Nexuiz - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On (FPS)",HIB,85.55,116.74,119.12,103.27,123.62,132.02,123.11,135.89,144.79,150.51,11.84 "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,53.28,68.50,54.20,45.45,53.60,57.93,77.65,86.88,92.10,105.88,68.50 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,211,104,141,147,82,76,199,150,67,54,125 "Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,20.73,13.52,24.44,21.95,14.67,13.83,18.74,14.56,8.77,7.12,14.75 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,150.98,89.17,104.58,113.43,65.54,62.64,134.10,105.01,58.93,49.56,100.98 "Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,32.81,26.07,23.83,27.97,23.59,21.92,21.90,19.59,18.26,15.87,28.25 "Timed PHP Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,52.59,30.39,33.02,35.95,22.83,21.83,39.71,32.65,20.60,17.58,31.00 "TSCP - AI Chess Performance (Nodes/s)",HIB,244877,314371,333118,288154,340617,366501,472953,531438,560988,645254,305140 "TTSIOD 3D Renderer - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping (FPS)",HIB,57.39,128.30,116.60,103.09,157.93,166.57,88.30,111.59,201.77,222.51,53.09 "VP8 libvpx Encoding - vpxenc (FPS)",HIB,14.42,20.54,18.29,16.86,21.28,22.49,21.98,27.86,26.68,32.54,17.82 "Warsow - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,223.70,353.92,292.83,243.80,290.50,307.27,323.97,355.73,355.17,379.67,12.93 "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,63.23,135.76,105.70,95.77,160.35,170.36,77.13,96.53,190.84,223.28,100.83 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,146.24,232.40,202.44,178.81,202.77,209.67,212.43,218.17,225.03,225.61,9.61