Linux 3.12 Intel Core i7 Benchmarks Intel Core i7-3960X testing with a Intel DX79SI and AMD Radeon HD 4850 512MB on Ubuntu 13.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. ,,"Linux 3.11","Linux 3.12 Git" Processor,,Intel Core i7-3960X @ 1.95GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores) Motherboard,,Intel DX79SI,Intel DX79SI Chipset,,Intel Xeon E5/Core,Intel Xeon E5/Core Memory,,8192MB,8192MB Disk,,64GB OCZ VERTEX,64GB OCZ VERTEX Graphics,,AMD Radeon HD 4850 512MB,AMD Radeon HD 4850 512MB Audio,,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892 Monitor,,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W Network,,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS,,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10 Kernel,,3.11.0-031100-generic (x86_64),3.12.0-999-generic (x86_64) Desktop,,Unity 7.1.2,Unity 7.1.2 Display Server,,X Server 1.14.3,X Server 1.14.3 Display Driver,,radeon 7.2.0,radeon 7.2.0 OpenGL,,3.1 Mesa 9.2.1 Gallium 0.4,3.1 Mesa 9.2.1 Gallium 0.4 Compiler,,GCC 4.8,GCC 4.8 File-System,,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1920x1080 ,,"Linux 3.11","Linux 3.12 Git" "Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,15993.10,16591.15 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,19.34,19.29 "Compile Bench - Test: Compile (MB/s)",HIB,60.12,70.84 "Compile Bench - Test: Initial Create (MB/s)",HIB,65.11,62.69 "FFmpeg - H.264 HD To NTSC DV (sec)",LIB,11.74,11.63 "FS-Mark - Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size (Files/s)",HIB,23.30,31.97 "FS-Mark - Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads (Files/s)",HIB,43.13,46.53 "FS-Mark - Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size (Files/s)",HIB,34.40,34.93 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,1627.15,1631.58 "LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,13.62,13.63 "OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,290.37,285.27 "OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,72.07,72.17 "OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time (Milliseconds)",LIB,13.84,13.83 "Opus Codec Encoding - WAV, Opus Encode, Opus Decode (sec)",LIB,9.37,9.33 "PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,4011,4807 "Prey - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,80.10,80.50 "Reaction Quake 3 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,122.53,122.50 "Reaction Quake 3 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time (Milliseconds)",LIB,8.13,8.14 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,19,19 "Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,15.34,15.33 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,63.53,62.85 "Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,5.94,5.70 "Unigine Sanctuary - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,20.40,20.39 "Unigine Tropics - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,22.74,22.74 "Warsow - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,80.67,80.27 "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,211.73,212.11 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low (FPS)",HIB,270.82,271.78 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High (FPS)",HIB,119.68,119.78 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra (FPS)",HIB,81.53,81.60 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultimate (FPS)",HIB,54.56,54.57