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.
,,"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","3930k@4.4","2700k @ 4.8ghz","Intel 3930k stock speed"
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),Intel Core i7-3930K @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-2700K @ 3.49GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-3930K @ 3.20GHz (12 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,Gigabyte X79-UD7,MSI Z68A-GD65 (MS-7681) v4.0,ASUS P9X79 WS
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,,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,Intel Sandy Bridge DMI2
Memory,,16384MB,16384MB,8192MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,8192MB,16384MB,16384MB,64512MB
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,511GB MR9265-8i + 240GB MR9265-8i
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,AMD Radeon HD 6700 1024MB
Audio,,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC1200,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC887,,Intel 6 /C200,Realtek ALC898
Monitor,,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,Acer P243W,VA2431,VA2431,VA2431,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,BenQ V2400Eco,,SyncMaster,SyncMaster
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,,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,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 10.04,Gentoo 2.1,Gentoo 2.1,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),2.6.32-37-generic (x86_64),3.2.1-gentoo (x86_64),3.3.8-gentoo (x86_64),3.2.0-29-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,KDE 4.7.4,KDE 4.8.3,Unity 5.14.0
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 1.7.6,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.12.2,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,fglrx 8.72.11,NVIDIA 290.10,fglrx 8.98.2 Catalyst 12.6,fglrx 8.96.4
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 290.10,4.2.11733,4.2.11627
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,GCC 4.6
File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4
Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,3840x1080,1920x1200,1920x1080
,,"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","3930k@4.4","2700k @ 4.8ghz","Intel 3930k stock speed"
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,3248.07,4369.39,2303.98,3489.41,4711.02,4730.60,5795.93,6318.83,10576.23,11353.19,3714.12,10938.95,6124.37,8562.39
"FFmpeg - AVI To NTSC VCD (sec)",LIB,29.19,9.98,22.47,20.10,22.03,22.09,16.32,16.00,22.77,20.74,27.26,6.68,5.93,14.30
"Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,428.85,374.17,1108.12,950.14,1137.82,1204.00,1254.82,1413.80,1440.31,1570.07,502.75,1736.59,1820.26,1604.26
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s)",HIB,84.16,163.08,172.10,160.43,281.37,296.10,102.44,133.90,333.11,407.96,141.70,397.41,287.05,316.89
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,20.28,40.14,24.57,29.04,54.49,56.22,31.33,36.98,81.58,94.66,28.55,78.14,49.51,46.79
"Minion - Benchmark: Solitaire (sec)",LIB,384.00,160.48,161.33,188.14,159.43,150.41,124.86,111.31,115.68,99.65,247.72,102.30,83.65,117.65
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,3493.40,5378.85,2510.55,3387.24,5105.15,5143.75,5435.51,6179.97,10076.13,11321.08,3824.32,10237.40,6486.78,7031.49
"TTSIOD 3D Renderer - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping (FPS)",HIB,57.39,128.30,116.60,103.09,157.93,166.57,88.30,111.59,201.77,222.51,53.09,204.41,183.32,126.65
"Minion - Benchmark: Bibd (sec)",LIB,366.35,167.25,161.35,188.13,159.13,149.71,135.79,121.11,121.10,106.23,259.44,108.04,89.63,121.53
"Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,211,104,141,147,82,76,199,150,67,54,125,55,75,67
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.B (Mop/s)",HIB,3876.36,6410.04,3132.82,3161.80,4609.44,4622.49,4819.31,6013.74,10124.84,12113.11,5550.24,11579.73,8420.70,9146.36
"C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,105.04,51.05,65.13,66.95,38.66,35.70,69.35,53.28,35.27,28.71,71.67,27.73,37.89,35.83
"x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,63.23,135.76,105.70,95.77,160.35,170.36,77.13,96.53,190.84,223.28,100.83,230.88,173.37,181.95
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: CG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,1086.34,2495.38,1323.67,1608.07,2247.61,2272.01,2430.27,2786.72,3518.99,3955.22,1793.77,3764.95,3146.41,2790.42
"7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,9392,17915,14458,13392,24333,25535,10244,12802,28433,33479,14343,32665,23997,25372
"Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,20.73,13.52,24.44,21.95,14.67,13.83,18.74,14.56,8.77,7.12,14.75,7.41,8.93,8.85
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,6085.41,11631.05,7465.63,8202.50,12560.50,12594.63,8174.35,10228.12,17353.46,20556.37,7154.09,19035.00,15586.29,12697.18
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,47,65,68,59,88,94,38,48,103,122,68,120,104,96
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,150.98,89.17,104.58,113.43,65.54,62.64,134.10,105.01,58.93,49.56,100.98,48.84,61.84,62.44
"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,,,
"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,,59.82,112.43
"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,,,21.99
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: BT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,7496.09,11152.49,7855.60,8518.29,13189.01,13758.89,9566.81,11946.95,18413.34,22115.01,9868.41,20832.30,15877.49,16005.40
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,44,68,68,60,87,92,41,51,98,117,61,118,104,93
"TSCP - AI Chess Performance (Nodes/s)",HIB,244877,314371,333118,288154,340617,366501,472953,531438,560988,645254,305140,630760,,
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: IS.C (Mop/s)",HIB,96.31,107.33,109.42,115.80,143.33,152.26,163.66,182.66,188.60,216.23,93.27,211.60,237.16,182.01
"OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,53.28,68.50,54.20,45.45,53.60,57.93,77.65,86.88,92.10,105.88,68.50,103.75,112.90,89.30
"VP8 libvpx Encoding - vpxenc (FPS)",HIB,14.42,20.54,18.29,16.86,21.28,22.49,21.98,27.86,26.68,32.54,17.82,32.89,33.34,24.50
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Blur (Iterations/min)",HIB,73,100,105,90,118,126,81,97,142,166,85,163,165,134
"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,,,3.24
"Minion - Benchmark: Graceful (sec)",LIB,122.04,86.34,87.56,104.05,86.72,81.59,78.21,70.09,69.59,60.66,102.55,61.98,54.28,72.72
"Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,32.81,26.07,23.83,27.97,23.59,21.92,21.90,19.59,18.26,15.87,28.25,16.39,14.96,19.04
"John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,3047000,4298667,3872000,3259333,3837000,4129000,4513333,5060667,5342000,6127667,3373667,6014667,6577000,5190000
"LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,23.45,19.56,17.68,21.34,18.05,16.75,16.01,14.27,13.53,11.85,19.53,12.02,11.01,13.94
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,99,133,130,110,143,153,107,128,176,206,125,201,202,161
"FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,9.13,7.85,8.10,9.79,8.27,7.68,6.94,6.19,5.88,5.24,7.47,5.20,4.76,5.95
"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,,59.19,99.29
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,117,165,151,127,159,171,142,165,197,229,144,224,232,185
"Minion - Benchmark: Quasigroup (sec)",LIB,237.11,198.52,203.05,232.71,194.96,182.06,178.03,157.50,156.49,136.06,193.62,138.80,122.11,162.22
"John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,13500,15381,15822,13215,15620,16838,12815,14389,15195,17509,15958,17108,,
"John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,886,1002,983,820,970,1046,817,916,966,1114,1011,1090,,