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","Core i7 3820, Tgui","Core i7 3820 @ 4.5GHz, Tgui"
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),Intel Core i7-3820 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-3820 @ 5.90GHz (8 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 X79-UD3,Gigabyte X79-UD3
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,Intel Sandy DMI2,Intel Sandy DMI2
Memory,,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,8192MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB
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 VERTEX3,60GB SSD G2 64 + 2 x 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKS-0 + 750GB Western Digital WD7500AAKS-2,60GB SSD G2 64 + 2 x 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKS-0 + 750GB Western Digital WD7500AAKS-2
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,NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE 1024MB (648/1700MHz),NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE 1024MB (648/1700MHz)
Audio,,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC1200,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC898,Realtek ALC898
Monitor,,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,VA2431,VA2431,VA2431,Acer P243W,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,,
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,Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection
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 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04
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),3.2.0-17-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-17-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,Unity 2D 5.4.0,Unity 2D 5.4.0
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 1.11.3,X Server 1.11.3
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,NVIDIA 295.20,NVIDIA 295.20
OpenGL,,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.2.0 NVIDIA 295.20,4.2.0 NVIDIA 295.20
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 4.6,GCC 4.6
File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4
Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080
,,"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","Core i7 3820, Tgui","Core i7 3820 @ 4.5GHz, Tgui"
"TTSIOD 3D Renderer - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping (FPS)",HIB,111.59,88.30,128.30,57.39,166.57,157.93,103.09,116.60,201.77,222.51,127.89,145.68
"CLOMP - Static OMP Speedup (Speedup)",HIB,3.19,2.74,2.46,3.00,5.56,5.50,5.19,4.81,5.38,5.43,5.13,5.24
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,48,38,65,47,94,88,59,68,103,122,81,97
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,128,107,133,99,153,143,110,130,176,206,157,187
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,51,41,68,44,92,87,60,68,98,117,79,96
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Blur (Iterations/min)",HIB,97,81,100,73,126,118,90,105,142,166,126,148
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,165,142,165,117,171,159,127,151,197,229,181,215
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,36.98,31.33,40.14,20.28,56.22,54.49,29.04,24.57,81.58,94.66,39.12,41.73
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,6179.97,5435.51,5378.85,3493.40,5143.75,5105.15,3387.24,2510.55,10076.13,11321.08,4278.28,4347.29
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,6318.83,5795.93,4369.39,3248.07,4730.60,4711.02,3489.41,2303.98,10576.23,11353.19,3668.97,3551.39
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,10228.12,8174.35,11631.05,6085.41,12594.63,12560.50,8202.50,7465.63,17353.46,20556.37,11315.56,12518.79
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: IS.C (Mop/s)",HIB,182.66,163.66,107.33,96.31,152.26,143.33,115.80,109.42,188.60,216.23,185.16,217.56
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.B (Mop/s)",HIB,6013.74,4819.31,6410.04,3876.36,4622.49,4609.44,3161.80,3132.82,10124.84,12113.11,5777.25,6104.76
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s)",HIB,133.90,102.44,163.08,84.16,296.10,281.37,160.43,172.10,333.11,407.96,237.73,288.82
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: CG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,2786.72,2430.27,2495.38,1086.34,2272.01,2247.61,1608.07,1323.67,3518.99,3955.22,2014.06,2053.26
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: BT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,11946.95,9566.81,11152.49,7496.09,13758.89,13189.01,8518.29,7855.60,18413.34,22115.01,11584.17,13029.51
"Minion - Benchmark: Solitaire (sec)",LIB,111.31,124.86,160.48,384.00,150.41,159.43,188.14,161.33,115.68,99.65,115.83,97.17
"Minion - Benchmark: Quasigroup (sec)",LIB,157.50,178.03,198.52,237.11,182.06,194.96,232.71,203.05,156.49,136.06,159.31,133.85
"Minion - Benchmark: Graceful (sec)",LIB,70.09,78.21,86.34,122.04,81.59,86.72,104.05,87.56,69.59,60.66,71.57,60.11
"Minion - Benchmark: Bibd (sec)",LIB,121.11,135.79,167.25,366.35,149.71,159.13,188.13,161.35,121.10,106.23,124.89,104.38
"Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,14.56,18.74,13.52,20.73,13.83,14.67,21.95,24.44,8.77,7.12,13.12,13.26
"Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,19.59,21.90,26.07,32.81,21.92,23.59,27.97,23.83,18.26,15.87,18.91,16.01
"Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,1413.80,1254.82,374.17,428.85,1204.00,1137.82,950.14,1108.12,1440.31,1570.07,1347.06,1699.97
"John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,916,817,1002,886,1046,970,820,983,966,1114,939,1116
"John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,14389,12815,15381,13500,16838,15620,13215,15822,15195,17509,14778,17539
"John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,5060667,4513333,4298667,3047000,4129000,3837000,3259333,3872000,5342000,6127667,4761833,5626500
"OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,86.88,77.65,68.50,53.28,57.93,53.60,45.45,54.20,92.10,105.88,85.24,101.50
"LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,14.27,16.01,19.56,23.45,16.75,18.05,21.34,17.68,13.53,11.85,14.08,11.99
"FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,6.19,6.94,7.85,9.13,7.68,8.27,9.79,8.10,5.88,5.24,6.12,5.24
"FFmpeg - AVI To NTSC VCD (sec)",LIB,16.00,16.32,9.98,29.19,22.09,22.03,20.10,22.47,22.77,20.74,11.51,6.60
"x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,96.53,77.13,135.76,63.23,170.36,160.35,95.77,105.70,190.84,223.28,137.07,162.83
"VP8 libvpx Encoding - vpxenc (FPS)",HIB,27.86,21.98,20.54,14.42,22.49,21.28,16.86,18.29,26.68,32.54,25.85,31.53
"TSCP - AI Chess Performance (Nodes/s)",HIB,531438,472953,314371,244877,366501,340617,288154,333118,560988,645254,542355,646471
"Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,150,199,104,211,76,82,147,141,67,54,94,76
"C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,53.28,69.35,51.05,105.04,35.70,38.66,66.95,65.13,35.27,28.71,51.98,42.35
"7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,12802,10244,17915,9392,25535,24333,13392,14458,28433,33479,19560,21337
"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,,
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,105.01,134.10,89.17,150.98,62.64,65.54,113.43,104.58,58.93,49.56,83.02,69.28
"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,,
"Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,218.17,212.43,232.40,146.24,209.67,202.77,178.81,202.44,225.03,225.61,128.83,129.51
"Nexuiz - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On (FPS)",HIB,135.89,123.11,116.74,85.55,132.02,123.62,103.27,119.12,144.79,150.51,149.66,155.60