centosadmin Intel Core i7-4770 testing with a MSI H87-G43 (MS-7816) v1.0 and Intel Haswell IGP on Debian 7.2 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Debian-EX40: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770 @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI H87-G43 (MS-7816) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 4 x 8192 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 2 x 2000GB Seagate ST2000NM0033-9ZM, Graphics: Intel Haswell IGP, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Debian 7.2, Kernel: 3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4 Debian-7-EX40: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770 @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI H87-G43 (MS-7816) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 4 x 8192 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 2 x 2000GB Seagate ST2000NM0033-9ZM, Graphics: Intel Haswell IGP, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Debian 7.2, Kernel: 3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4 Debian-BareMetal-EX40: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770 @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI H87-G43 (MS-7816) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 4 x 8192 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 2 x 2000GB Seagate ST2000NM0033-9ZM, Graphics: Intel Haswell IGP, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Debian 7.2, Kernel: 3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4 Debian-EX40-2: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770 @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI H87-G43 (MS-7816) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 4 x 8192 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 2 x 2000GB Seagate ST2000NM0033-9ZM, Graphics: Intel Haswell IGP, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Debian 7.2, Kernel: 3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4 Debian-EX40-3: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770 @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI H87-G43 (MS-7816) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 4 x 8192 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 2 x 2000GB Seagate ST2000NM0033-9ZM, Graphics: Intel Haswell IGP, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Debian 7.2, Kernel: 3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4 AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian-EX40 ........... 4529.03 |============================================== Debian-7-EX40 ......... 4342.18 |============================================ Debian-BareMetal-EX40 . 4510.66 |============================================== Debian-EX40-2 ......... 4381.27 |============================================ Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian-EX40 . 7.22 |=========================================================== CacheBench Test: Read MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian-EX40 ........... 3305.83 |============================================== Debian-BareMetal-EX40 . 3307.79 |============================================== CacheBench Test: Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian-EX40 . 17616.08 |======================================================= CacheBench Test: Read / Modify / Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian-EX40 ... 28862.99 |===================================================== Debian-7-EX40 . 28867.86 |===================================================== Debian-EX40-2 . 28868.22 |===================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian-EX40 ... 7243.43 |===================================================== Debian-7-EX40 . 7364.11 |====================================================== Debian-EX40-2 . 7283.44 |===================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian-EX40 ........... 8192.27 |=========================================== Debian-7-EX40 ......... 8138.88 |=========================================== Debian-BareMetal-EX40 . 8224.04 |=========================================== Debian-EX40-2 ......... 8721.37 |============================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian-EX40 ... 7805.34 |====================================================== Debian-7-EX40 . 7695.54 |===================================================== Debian-EX40-2 . 7727.44 |===================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian-EX40 ........... 28158.54 |=================================== Debian-7-EX40 ......... 27475.24 |================================== Debian-BareMetal-EX40 . 35938.74 |============================================= Debian-EX40-2 ......... 36238.29 |============================================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian-BareMetal-EX40 . 69.83 |================================================ Debian-EX40-2 ......... 70.56 |================================================ Debian-EX40-3 ......... 70.20 |================================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian-BareMetal-EX40 . 1695.63 |============================================== Debian-EX40-2 ......... 1648.20 |============================================= Debian-EX40-3 ......... 1663.30 |============================================= Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian-BareMetal-EX40 . 10.11 |================================================ Debian-EX40-2 ......... 10.13 |================================================ Debian-EX40-3 ......... 10.13 |================================================ Cyclictest 0.84 Test Case: clock_nanosleep TIME_ABSTIME, Interval 500 ms, 100000 Loops ms Average < Lower Is Better Debian-BareMetal-EX40 . 6 |==================================================== Debian-EX40-2 ......... 6 |==================================================== Debian-EX40-3 ......... 6 |==================================================== FFmpeg 2.0 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian-BareMetal-EX40 . 11.84 |================================================ Debian-EX40-2 ......... 11.73 |================================================ Debian-EX40-3 ......... 11.80 |================================================ Java SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better Debian-BareMetal-EX40 . 1371.66 |============================================== Debian-EX40-2 ......... 1371.66 |============================================== Debian-EX40-3 ......... 1372.34 |============================================== NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian-BareMetal-EX40 . 49631.25 |======================================== Debian-EX40-2 ......... 55270.22 |============================================= Debian-EX40-3 ......... 54936.04 |============================================= PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Debian-BareMetal-EX40 . 156125 |=============================================== Debian-EX40-2 ......... 155543 |=============================================== Debian-EX40-3 ......... 156409 |=============================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian-BareMetal-EX40 . 15491.12 |============================================= Debian-EX40-2 ......... 15492.42 |============================================= Debian-EX40-3 ......... 15503.81 |============================================= Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian-BareMetal-EX40 . 16536.45 |============================================= Debian-EX40-2 ......... 16525.19 |============================================= Debian-EX40-3 ......... 16555.70 |============================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8 MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian-BareMetal-EX40 . 15136.92 |============================================= Debian-EX40-2 ......... 15207.57 |============================================= Debian-EX40-3 ......... 15005.79 |============================================ IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian-EX40-2 . 145.72 |======================================================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian-EX40-2 . 147.59 |======================================================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian-EX40-2 . 148.36 |=======================================================