Intel Core i5 Sandy Bridge Intel Core i5-2520M testing with a HP 161C and Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+) on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Sandy Bridge: Processor: Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP 161C, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+), Audio: IDT 92HD81B1X5, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.10.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: intel 2.17.0, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 8.0.2, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Sandy Bridge . 20114.20 |================================================ OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Sandy Bridge . 99.03 |=================================================== FFmpeg 1.0 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Sandy Bridge . 24.49 |=================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Sandy Bridge . 22.28 |=================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Sandy Bridge . 67 |====================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Sandy Bridge . 129 |===================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Sandy Bridge . 103 |===================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Sandy Bridge . 40 |====================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Sandy Bridge . 80 |====================================================== x264 2012-10-03 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Sandy Bridge . 60.30 |=================================================== VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Sandy Bridge . 16.83 |=================================================== John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Sandy Bridge . 29664 |=================================================== John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Sandy Bridge . 8181000 |================================================= John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Sandy Bridge . 2067 |==================================================== Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Sandy Bridge . 32.90 |===================================================