angrymoe AMD Phenom II X4 965 testing with a ASUS M4A79XTD EVO and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 896MB on Debian testing via the Phoronix Test Suite. Angrymoe linux kernel build test: Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M4A79XTD EVO, Chipset: AMD nee ATI RD780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 2 x 1000GB Western Digital WD1001FALS-0, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 896MB (630/1063MHz), Audio: VIA VT1708S, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 3.2.0-2-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: LXDE, Display Server: X Server 1.11.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 295.40, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 295.40, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1600x1200 AMD P2X4 965 @3.8GHz: Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M4A79XTD EVO, Chipset: AMD nee ATI RD780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 2 x 1000GB Western Digital WD1001FALS-0, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 896MB (630/1063MHz), Audio: VIA VT1708S, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 3.2.0-2-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: LXDE, Display Server: X Server 1.11.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 295.40, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 295.40, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1600x1200 AMD P2X4 965 @3.6GHz: Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M4A79XTD EVO, Chipset: AMD nee ATI RD780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 2 x 1000GB Western Digital WD1001FALS-0, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 896MB (630/1063MHz), Audio: VIA VT1708S, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 3.2.0-2-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: LXDE, Display Server: X Server 1.11.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 295.40, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 295.40, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1600x1200 Intel i7-2630QM: Processor: Intel Core i7-2630QM @ 2.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS G73Sw v1.0, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 2 x 500GB Seagate ST95005620AS + 32GB USB 3.0 Cable, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M 1536MB (675/1250MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC269VB, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Atheros AR9285 Wireless OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 3.2.0-2-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: LXDE, Display Server: X Server 1.11.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 295.40, OpenGL: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 295.40, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Angrymoe linux kernel build test . 122.25 |================================== AMD P2X4 965 @3.8GHz ............. 123.16 |================================== Intel i7-2630QM .................. 129.72 |==================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better AMD P2X4 965 @3.6GHz . 681.30 |===================================== Intel i7-2630QM ...... 889.12 |================================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better AMD P2X4 965 @3.6GHz . 96.47 |==================== Intel i7-2630QM ...... 226.13 |================================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better AMD P2X4 965 @3.6GHz . 796.85 |============================================= Intel i7-2630QM ...... 855.21 |================================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better AMD P2X4 965 @3.6GHz . 410.23 |================================================ Intel i7-2630QM ...... 399.16 |=============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better AMD P2X4 965 @3.6GHz . 787.71 |========================== Intel i7-2630QM ...... 1410.02 |=============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better AMD P2X4 965 @3.6GHz . 1315.26 |======================================== Intel i7-2630QM ...... 1555.09 |===============================================