Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge-E Ubuntu Linux Intel Core i7-4960X testing with a MSI X79MA-GD45 (MS-7738) v1.0 and Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB on Ubuntu 13.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E: Processor: Intel Core i7-4960X @ 3.60GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X79MA-GD45 (MS-7738) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v2/Core, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz Undefined, Disk: 320GB Seagate ST3320620AS, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB (780/1000MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: AL2223W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-11-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.1, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.0, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.2.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 Intel Core i5 2500k: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte H67N-USB3-B3, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 128GB M4-CT128M4SSD2 + 1500GB Western Digital WD15EADS-00P, Graphics: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family IGP (1100MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Debian unstable, Kernel: 3.10-3-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.5, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: intel 2.21.15, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 5515 |====================================== Intel Core i5 2500k .............. 1430 |========== Parboil 2.5 Test: Matrix Q Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 15.38 |============================= Intel Core i5 2500k .............. 19.60 |===================================== Parboil 2.5 Test: MRI Gridding Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 51.68 |===================================== Intel Core i5 2500k .............. 34.46 |========================= Parboil 2.5 Test: Seven-Point Stencil Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 26.95 |==================== Intel Core i5 2500k .............. 50.92 |===================================== Parboil 2.5 Test: Cutoff Pair Potential Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 10.48 |================= Intel Core i5 2500k .............. 22.19 |===================================== Parboil 2.5 Test: Two-Point Angular Correlation Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 525.44 |==================================== Intel Core i5 2500k .............. 315.42 |====================== Parboil 2.5 Test: Lid-Driven Cavity Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 238.09 |============================= Intel Core i5 2500k .............. 295.01 |==================================== Rodinia 2.2 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 67.64 |=============== Intel Core i5 2500k .............. 162.74 |==================================== Rodinia 2.2 Test: OpenMP Leukocyte Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 24.59 |================ Intel Core i5 2500k .............. 57.29 |===================================== Rodinia 2.2 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 67.47 |================= Intel Core i5 2500k .............. 143.24 |==================================== Rodinia 2.2 Test: OpenMP Streamcluster Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 32.65 |========================= Intel Core i5 2500k .............. 47.69 |===================================== Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 22.60 |===================================== PolyBench-C 3.2 Test: Covariance Computation Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 4.81 |====================================== PolyBench-C 3.2 Test: Correlation Computation Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 4.81 |====================================== PolyBench-C 3.2 Test: 3 Matrix Multiplications Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 19.56 |===================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 8.99 |===================== Intel Core i5 2500k .............. 16.17 |===================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 5.24 |========================= Intel Core i5 2500k .............. 7.81 |====================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 1380.31 |=================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 568.50 |==================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 335.55 |==================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 2404.12 |=================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 2386.39 |=================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 1207.03 |=================================== VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 28.97 |===================================== Intel Core i5 2500k .............. 26.50 |================================== x264 2013-06-08 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 224.05 |==================================== Intel Core i5 2500k .............. 98.65 |================ Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 1731.68 |=================================== Intel Core i5 2500k .............. 1488.13 |============================== Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.8.1-10 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 37.58 |================= Intel Core i5 2500k .............. 84.21 |===================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 62.51 |===================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 18.69 |================= Intel Core i5 2500k .............. 40.07 |===================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 59 |============== Intel Core i5 2500k .............. 165 |======================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 13.02 |=============================== Intel Core i5 2500k .............. 15.71 |===================================== Opus Codec Encoding 1.0.1 WAV, Opus Encode, Opus Decode Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 8.80 |=============================== Intel Core i5 2500k .............. 10.58 |===================================== FFmpeg 2.0 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge E . 17.32 |===================================== Intel Core i5 2500k .............. 15.14 |================================