General Intel Core i7 720Q testing with a ASUS G73Jh v1.0 and ASUS AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5870 1024MB on Gentoo via the Phoronix Test Suite. BFS+MEM: Processor: Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS G73Jh v1.0, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 12288MB, Disk: 256GB OCZ VERTEX4 + 500GB Seagate ST9500420AS, Graphics: ASUS AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5870 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC269, Monitor: HSD173PUW1 + E2360, Network: Qualcomm Atheros AR8131 Gigabit + Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless OS: Gentoo, Kernel: 3.12.6-brn1 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.12.0, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2 + Clang 3.4 + LLVM 3.4, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 CFS-MEM: Processor: Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS G73Jh v1.0, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 12288MB, Disk: 256GB OCZ VERTEX4 + 500GB Seagate ST9500420AS, Graphics: ASUS AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5870 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC269, Monitor: HSD173PUW1 + E2360, Network: Qualcomm Atheros AR8131 Gigabit + Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless OS: Gentoo, Kernel: 3.12.6-brn1 (x86_64), Display Driver: radeon 7.2.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2 + Clang 3.4 + LLVM 3.4, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 BFS-MEM: Processor: Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS G73Jh v1.0, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 12288MB, Disk: 256GB OCZ VERTEX4 + 500GB Seagate ST9500420AS, Graphics: ASUS AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5870 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC269, Monitor: HSD173PUW1 + E2360, Network: Qualcomm Atheros AR8131 Gigabit + Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless OS: Gentoo, Kernel: 3.12.6-brn1 (x86_64), Display Driver: radeon 7.2.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2 + Clang 3.4 + LLVM 3.4, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better BFS+MEM . 2033 |======================================== CFS-MEM . 3219 |=============================================================== BFS-MEM . 2799 |======================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Copy - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better BFS+MEM . 10240.82 |=========================================================== CFS-MEM . 10305.20 |=========================================================== BFS-MEM . 10252.87 |=========================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better BFS+MEM . 9477.77 |=========================================================== CFS-MEM . 9513.14 |============================================================ BFS-MEM . 9586.18 |============================================================ NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: BT.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better BFS+MEM . 142.03 |============================================================= CFS-MEM . 142.71 |============================================================= BFS-MEM . 141.73 |============================================================= Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better BFS+MEM . 14.18 |============================================================== CFS-MEM . 13.66 |============================================================ BFS-MEM . 13.55 |=========================================================== CacheBench Test: Read MB/s > Higher Is Better BFS+MEM . 2115.27 |============================================================ CFS-MEM . 2120.16 |============================================================ BFS-MEM . 2108.09 |============================================================ CacheBench Test: Write MB/s > Higher Is Better BFS+MEM . 6754.41 |========================================================== CFS-MEM . 7041.66 |============================================================ BFS-MEM . 7039.85 |============================================================ CacheBench Test: Read / Modify / Write MB/s > Higher Is Better BFS+MEM . 13742.69 |========================================================== CFS-MEM . 14011.08 |=========================================================== BFS-MEM . 13936.44 |=========================================================== John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better BFS+MEM . 7165000 |============================================================ CFS-MEM . 7128333 |============================================================ BFS-MEM . 7130333 |============================================================ Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better BFS+MEM . 1402.54 |============================================================ CFS-MEM . 1147.15 |================================================= BFS-MEM . 1149.99 |================================================= 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better BFS+MEM . 8405 |============================================================= CFS-MEM . 8691 |=============================================================== BFS-MEM . 8411 |============================================================= Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better BFS+MEM . 69.81 |============================================================== CFS-MEM . 63.90 |========================================================= BFS-MEM . 65.06 |========================================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better BFS+MEM . 61.64 |============================================================== CFS-MEM . 62.06 |============================================================== BFS-MEM . 61.02 |============================================================= Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better BFS+MEM . 22.83 |============================================================== CFS-MEM . 22.75 |============================================================== BFS-MEM . 22.83 |============================================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better BFS+MEM . 268 |================================================================ CFS-MEM . 268 |================================================================ BFS-MEM . 268 |================================================================ Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better BFS+MEM . 110.08 |============================================================= CFS-MEM . 108.33 |============================================================ BFS-MEM . 108.84 |============================================================ FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better BFS+MEM . 10.56 |============================================================== CFS-MEM . 9.44 |======================================================= BFS-MEM . 9.55 |======================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better BFS+MEM . 23.26 |============================================================== CFS-MEM . 22.86 |============================================================= BFS-MEM . 22.96 |============================================================= Tachyon 0.98.9 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better BFS+MEM . 37.13 |============================================================== CFS-MEM . 37.20 |============================================================== BFS-MEM . 37.10 |============================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better BFS+MEM . 58.90 |============================================================ CFS-MEM . 60.97 |============================================================== BFS-MEM . 61.07 |============================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better BFS+MEM . 5648.92 |========================================== CFS-MEM . 8116.02 |============================================================ BFS-MEM . 5510.35 |=========================================