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","3930k@4.4","2700k @ 4.8ghz"
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),Intel Core i7-3930K @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-2700K @ 3.49GHz (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 GA-MA78LMT-US2H,Gigabyte X79-UD7,MSI Z68A-GD65 (MS-7681) v4.0
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,,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM
Memory,,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,8192MB,16384MB,16384MB,8192MB,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 VERTEX3,500GB Seagate ST3500418AS + 2 x 2000GB Seagate ST32000641AS,2000GB Western Digital WD20EADS-00R + 120GB Corsair Force 3 + 2 x 500GB Seagate ST3500418AS + 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKS-0,64GB M4-CT064M4SSD2 + 2 x 360GB Seagate ST3360320AS
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,NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 1024MB (850/2000MHz),AMD Radeon HD 7900 3072MB
Audio,,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC1200,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC887,,Intel 6 /C200
Monitor,,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,VA2431,VA2431,VA2431,Acer P243W,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,BenQ V2400Eco,,SyncMaster
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,,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,Gentoo 2.1,Gentoo 2.1
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),3.2.1-gentoo (x86_64),3.3.8-gentoo (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,KDE 4.7.4,KDE 4.8.3
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,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.12.2
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,NVIDIA 290.10,fglrx 8.98.2 Catalyst 12.6
OpenGL,,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,3.2.9756,4.2.0 NVIDIA 290.10,4.2.11733
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,GCC 4.6.2 + LLVM 3.0,GCC 4.6.3 + LLVM 2.9
File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4
Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,3840x1080,1920x1200
,,"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","3930k@4.4","2700k @ 4.8ghz"
"TSCP - AI Chess Performance (Nodes/s)",HIB,531438,472953,314371,244877,366501,340617,288154,333118,560988,645254,305140,630760,
"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,,
"Minion - Benchmark: Bibd (sec)",LIB,121.11,135.79,167.25,366.35,149.71,159.13,188.13,161.35,121.10,106.23,259.44,108.04,89.63
"Minion - Benchmark: Graceful (sec)",LIB,70.09,78.21,86.34,122.04,81.59,86.72,104.05,87.56,69.59,60.66,102.55,61.98,54.28
"Minion - Benchmark: Quasigroup (sec)",LIB,157.50,178.03,198.52,237.11,182.06,194.96,232.71,203.05,156.49,136.06,193.62,138.80,122.11
"Minion - Benchmark: Solitaire (sec)",LIB,111.31,124.86,160.48,384.00,150.41,159.43,188.14,161.33,115.68,99.65,247.72,102.30,83.65
"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,,59.82
"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,,
"FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,6.19,6.94,7.85,9.13,7.68,8.27,9.79,8.10,5.88,5.24,7.47,5.20,4.76
"LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,14.27,16.01,19.56,23.45,16.75,18.05,21.34,17.68,13.53,11.85,19.53,12.02,11.01
"Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,14.56,18.74,13.52,20.73,13.83,14.67,21.95,24.44,8.77,7.12,14.75,7.41,8.93
"Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,19.59,21.90,26.07,32.81,21.92,23.59,27.97,23.83,18.26,15.87,28.25,16.39,14.96
"Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,1413.80,1254.82,374.17,428.85,1204.00,1137.82,950.14,1108.12,1440.31,1570.07,502.75,1736.59,1820.26
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: BT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,11946.95,9566.81,11152.49,7496.09,13758.89,13189.01,8518.29,7855.60,18413.34,22115.01,9868.41,20832.30,15877.49
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: CG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,2786.72,2430.27,2495.38,1086.34,2272.01,2247.61,1608.07,1323.67,3518.99,3955.22,1793.77,3764.95,3146.41
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s)",HIB,133.90,102.44,163.08,84.16,296.10,281.37,160.43,172.10,333.11,407.96,141.70,397.41,287.05
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.B (Mop/s)",HIB,6013.74,4819.31,6410.04,3876.36,4622.49,4609.44,3161.80,3132.82,10124.84,12113.11,5550.24,11579.73,8420.70
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: IS.C (Mop/s)",HIB,182.66,163.66,107.33,96.31,152.26,143.33,115.80,109.42,188.60,216.23,93.27,211.60,237.16
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,10228.12,8174.35,11631.05,6085.41,12594.63,12560.50,8202.50,7465.63,17353.46,20556.37,7154.09,19035.00,15586.29
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,6318.83,5795.93,4369.39,3248.07,4730.60,4711.02,3489.41,2303.98,10576.23,11353.19,3714.12,10938.95,6124.37
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,6179.97,5435.51,5378.85,3493.40,5143.75,5105.15,3387.24,2510.55,10076.13,11321.08,3824.32,10237.40,6486.78
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,36.98,31.33,40.14,20.28,56.22,54.49,29.04,24.57,81.58,94.66,28.55,78.14,49.51
"7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,12802,10244,17915,9392,25535,24333,13392,14458,28433,33479,14343,32665,23997
"John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,5060667,4513333,4298667,3047000,4129000,3837000,3259333,3872000,5342000,6127667,3373667,6014667,6577000
"John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,14389,12815,15381,13500,16838,15620,13215,15822,15195,17509,15958,17108,
"John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,916,817,1002,886,1046,970,820,983,966,1114,1011,1090,
"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,,
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,105.01,134.10,89.17,150.98,62.64,65.54,113.43,104.58,58.93,49.56,100.98,48.84,61.84
"VP8 libvpx Encoding - vpxenc (FPS)",HIB,27.86,21.98,20.54,14.42,22.49,21.28,16.86,18.29,26.68,32.54,17.82,32.89,33.34
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,165,142,165,117,171,159,127,151,197,229,144,224,232
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Blur (Iterations/min)",HIB,97,81,100,73,126,118,90,105,142,166,85,163,165
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,51,41,68,44,92,87,60,68,98,117,61,118,104
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,128,107,133,99,153,143,110,130,176,206,125,201,202
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,48,38,65,47,94,88,59,68,103,122,68,120,104
"x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,96.53,77.13,135.76,63.23,170.36,160.35,95.77,105.70,190.84,223.28,100.83,230.88,173.37
"C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,53.28,69.35,51.05,105.04,35.70,38.66,66.95,65.13,35.27,28.71,71.67,27.73,37.89
"TTSIOD 3D Renderer - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping (FPS)",HIB,111.59,88.30,128.30,57.39,166.57,157.93,103.09,116.60,201.77,222.51,53.09,204.41,183.32
"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,,59.19
"FFmpeg - AVI To NTSC VCD (sec)",LIB,16.00,16.32,9.98,29.19,22.09,22.03,20.10,22.47,22.77,20.74,27.26,6.68,5.93
"Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,150,199,104,211,76,82,147,141,67,54,125,55,75
"OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,86.88,77.65,68.50,53.28,57.93,53.60,45.45,54.20,92.10,105.88,68.50,103.75,112.90