Intel Linux Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Intel Core i7 990X testing with a MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0 and AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Linux: Processor: Intel Core i7 990X @ 3.47GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 160GB Western Digital WD1600JS-00M, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0-rc2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Linux . 22.02 |========================================================== John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Linux . 23223000 |======================================================= John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Linux . 98939 |========================================================== John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Linux . 7248 |=========================================================== NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Linux . 22940.14 |======================================================= FFmpeg 0.10 AVI To NTSC VCD Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Linux . 12.27 |========================================================== x264 2011-12-06 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Linux . 164.73 |========================================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Linux . 18.15 |========================================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Linux . 6.58 |=========================================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Linux . 10.84 |========================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Intel Linux . 1353.63 |======================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Linux . 954.27 |========================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Linux . 248.37 |========================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Linux . 999.47 |========================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Linux . 434.72 |========================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Linux . 1478.71 |======================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Linux . 1610.07 |======================================================== BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Dhrystone 2 LPS > Higher Is Better Intel Linux . 23677701.97 |==================================================== BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Register Arithmetic LPS > Higher Is Better Intel Linux . 1 |============================================================== BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Integer Arithmetic LPS > Higher Is Better Intel Linux . 1 |============================================================== BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Floating-Point Arithmetic LPS > Higher Is Better Intel Linux . 1 |==============================================================