Benchmarks of the Intel Core i7 3960X "Sandy Bridge" Extreme Edition processor under Linux. Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel. The Core i7 3960X has a base frequency of 3.3GHz, Turbo Boost of 3.9GHz, six physical cores plus Hyper Threading, etc.
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Intel Core i7 3960X Extreme On Linux
Benchmarks of the Intel Core i7 3960X "Sandy Bridge" Extreme Edition processor under Linux. Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel. The Core i7 3960X has a base frequency of 3.3GHz, Turbo Boost of 3.9GHz, six physical cores plus Hyper Threading, etc.
,,"Core i5 2500K","Core i5 2400S","FX-8150","Fusion A8-3850","Core i7 990X","Core i7 970","Core i7 920","Core i7 870","Core i7 3960X","Core i7 3960X @ 4.5GHz","Phenom 1090T","3930k@4.4","2700k @ 4.8ghz","Intel 3930k stock speed","Intel Core i7 720Q on Ubuntu 13.10 3.11.0-18"
Processor,,Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2400S @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores),AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.61GHz (8 Cores),AMD A8-3850 APU with Radeon HD @ 2.90GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i7 990X @ 3.47GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7 970 @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core 870 @ 2.67GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores),AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @ 3.20GHz (6 Cores),Intel Core i7-3930K @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-2700K @ 3.49GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-3930K @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7 720Q @ 0.93GHz (8 Cores)
Motherboard,,ASRock Z68 Pro3,ASRock Z68 Pro3,ASUS Crosshair V Formula,SAPPHIRE Pure Platinum A75,MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0,MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0,MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0,ECS P55H-A v1.0,Intel DX79SI,Intel DX79SI,Gigabyte GA-MA78LMT-US2H,Gigabyte X79-UD7,MSI Z68A-GD65 (MS-7681) v4.0,ASUS P9X79 WS,Dell Vostro 3700
Chipset,,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,ATI RD890,AMD Family 12h Root Complex,Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R,Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R,Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R,Intel Core DMI,Intel Sandy DMI2,Intel Sandy DMI2,AMD RS780 + SB700/SB800,,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,Intel Sandy Bridge DMI2,Intel Core DMI
Memory,,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,8192MB,16384MB,16384MB,8192MB,16384MB,16384MB,64512MB,4096MB
Disk,,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,500GB Seagate ST3500418AS + 2 x 2000GB Seagate ST32000641AS,2000GB Western Digital WD20EADS-00R + 120GB Corsair Force 3 + 2 x 500GB Seagate ST3500418AS + 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKS-0,64GB M4-CT064M4SSD2 + 2 x 360GB Seagate ST3360320AS,511GB MR9265-8i + 240GB MR9265-8i,500GB Western Digital WD5000BEKT-7
Graphics,,AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz),AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz),AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz),AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz),AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz),AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz),AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz),AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz),AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB,AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB,ATI Radeon 3000 512MB,NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 1024MB (850/2000MHz),AMD Radeon HD 7900 3072MB,AMD Radeon HD 6700 1024MB,NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 1024MB (575/790MHz)
Audio,,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC1200,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC887,,Intel 6 /C200,Realtek ALC898,IDT 92HD81B1X5
Monitor,,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,VA2431,VA2431,VA2431,Acer P243W,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,BenQ V2400Eco,,SyncMaster,SyncMaster,AU Optronics
Network,,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection,Marvell Yukon Optima 88E8059,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection,Broadcom BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n
OS,,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 10.04,Gentoo 2.1,Gentoo 2.1,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 13.10
Kernel,,3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),2.6.32-37-generic (x86_64),3.2.1-gentoo (x86_64),3.3.8-gentoo (x86_64),3.2.0-29-generic (x86_64),3.11.0-18-generic (x86_64)
Desktop,,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,GNOME 2.30.2,KDE 4.7.4,KDE 4.8.3,Unity 5.14.0,Unity 7.1.2
Display Server,,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.7.6,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.12.2,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.14.5
Display Driver,,fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11,fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11,fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11,fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11,fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11,fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11,fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11,fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11,fglrx 8.91.4,fglrx 8.91.4,fglrx 8.72.11,NVIDIA 290.10,fglrx 8.98.2 Catalyst 12.6,fglrx 8.96.4,NVIDIA 319.60
OpenGL,,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,3.2.9756,4.2.0 NVIDIA 290.10,4.2.11733,4.2.11627,3.3.0
Compiler,,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.4.3,GCC 4.6.2 + LLVM 3.0,GCC 4.6.3 + LLVM 2.9,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.8
File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4
Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,3840x1080,1920x1200,1920x1080,1600x900
,,"Core i5 2500K","Core i5 2400S","FX-8150","Fusion A8-3850","Core i7 990X","Core i7 970","Core i7 920","Core i7 870","Core i7 3960X","Core i7 3960X @ 4.5GHz","Phenom 1090T","3930k@4.4","2700k @ 4.8ghz","Intel 3930k stock speed","Intel Core i7 720Q on Ubuntu 13.10 3.11.0-18"
"7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,12802,10244,17915,9392,25535,24333,13392,14458,28433,33479,14343,32665,23997,25372,2925
"C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,53.28,69.35,51.05,105.04,35.70,38.66,66.95,65.13,35.27,28.71,71.67,27.73,37.89,35.83,185.26
"CLOMP - Static OMP Speedup (Speedup)",HIB,3.19,2.74,2.46,3.00,5.56,5.50,5.19,4.81,5.38,5.43,3.00,,,3.24,2.39
"FFmpeg - AVI To NTSC VCD (sec)",LIB,16.00,16.32,9.98,29.19,22.09,22.03,20.10,22.47,22.77,20.74,27.26,6.68,5.93,14.30,
"FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,6.19,6.94,7.85,9.13,7.68,8.27,9.79,8.10,5.88,5.24,7.47,5.20,4.76,5.95,49.45
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,165,142,165,117,171,159,127,151,197,229,144,224,232,185,
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Blur (Iterations/min)",HIB,97,81,100,73,126,118,90,105,142,166,85,163,165,134,
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,51,41,68,44,92,87,60,68,98,117,61,118,104,93,
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,128,107,133,99,153,143,110,130,176,206,125,201,202,161,
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,48,38,65,47,94,88,59,68,103,122,68,120,104,96,
"Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,1413.80,1254.82,374.17,428.85,1204.00,1137.82,950.14,1108.12,1440.31,1570.07,502.75,1736.59,1820.26,1604.26,226.66
"John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,5060667,4513333,4298667,3047000,4129000,3837000,3259333,3872000,5342000,6127667,3373667,6014667,6577000,5190000,612462667
"John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,14389,12815,15381,13500,16838,15620,13215,15822,15195,17509,15958,17108,,,
"John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,916,817,1002,886,1046,970,820,983,966,1114,1011,1090,,,
"LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,14.27,16.01,19.56,23.45,16.75,18.05,21.34,17.68,13.53,11.85,19.53,12.02,11.01,13.94,111.72
"Minion - Benchmark: Bibd (sec)",LIB,121.11,135.79,167.25,366.35,149.71,159.13,188.13,161.35,121.10,106.23,259.44,108.04,89.63,121.53,
"Minion - Benchmark: Graceful (sec)",LIB,70.09,78.21,86.34,122.04,81.59,86.72,104.05,87.56,69.59,60.66,102.55,61.98,54.28,72.72,
"Minion - Benchmark: Quasigroup (sec)",LIB,157.50,178.03,198.52,237.11,182.06,194.96,232.71,203.05,156.49,136.06,193.62,138.80,122.11,162.22,
"Minion - Benchmark: Solitaire (sec)",LIB,111.31,124.86,160.48,384.00,150.41,159.43,188.14,161.33,115.68,99.65,247.72,102.30,83.65,117.65,
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: BT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,11946.95,9566.81,11152.49,7496.09,13758.89,13189.01,8518.29,7855.60,18413.34,22115.01,9868.41,20832.30,15877.49,16005.40,1905.20
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: CG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,2786.72,2430.27,2495.38,1086.34,2272.01,2247.61,1608.07,1323.67,3518.99,3955.22,1793.77,3764.95,3146.41,2790.42,558.77
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s)",HIB,133.90,102.44,163.08,84.16,296.10,281.37,160.43,172.10,333.11,407.96,141.70,397.41,287.05,316.89,28.52
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.B (Mop/s)",HIB,6013.74,4819.31,6410.04,3876.36,4622.49,4609.44,3161.80,3132.82,10124.84,12113.11,5550.24,11579.73,8420.70,9146.36,1041.67
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: IS.C (Mop/s)",HIB,182.66,163.66,107.33,96.31,152.26,143.33,115.80,109.42,188.60,216.23,93.27,211.60,237.16,182.01,18.73
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,10228.12,8174.35,11631.05,6085.41,12594.63,12560.50,8202.50,7465.63,17353.46,20556.37,7154.09,19035.00,15586.29,12697.18,1749.83
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,6318.83,5795.93,4369.39,3248.07,4730.60,4711.02,3489.41,2303.98,10576.23,11353.19,3714.12,10938.95,6124.37,8562.39,932.16
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,6179.97,5435.51,5378.85,3493.40,5143.75,5105.15,3387.24,2510.55,10076.13,11321.08,3824.32,10237.40,6486.78,7031.49,1157.61
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,36.98,31.33,40.14,20.28,56.22,54.49,29.04,24.57,81.58,94.66,28.55,78.14,49.51,46.79,6.70
"Nexuiz - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On (FPS)",HIB,135.89,123.11,116.74,85.55,132.02,123.62,103.27,119.12,144.79,150.51,11.84,,59.19,99.29,30.79
"OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,86.88,77.65,68.50,53.28,57.93,53.60,45.45,54.20,92.10,105.88,68.50,103.75,112.90,89.30,8.63
"Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,150,199,104,211,76,82,147,141,67,54,125,55,75,67,793
"Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,14.56,18.74,13.52,20.73,13.83,14.67,21.95,24.44,8.77,7.12,14.75,7.41,8.93,8.85,82.39
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,105.01,134.10,89.17,150.98,62.64,65.54,113.43,104.58,58.93,49.56,100.98,48.84,61.84,62.44,623.04
"Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,19.59,21.90,26.07,32.81,21.92,23.59,27.97,23.83,18.26,15.87,28.25,16.39,14.96,19.04,147.49
"Timed PHP Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,32.65,39.71,30.39,52.59,21.83,22.83,35.95,33.02,20.60,17.58,31.00,,,21.99,
"TSCP - AI Chess Performance (Nodes/s)",HIB,531438,472953,314371,244877,366501,340617,288154,333118,560988,645254,305140,630760,,,54000
"TTSIOD 3D Renderer - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping (FPS)",HIB,111.59,88.30,128.30,57.39,166.57,157.93,103.09,116.60,201.77,222.51,53.09,204.41,183.32,126.65,
"VP8 libvpx Encoding - vpxenc (FPS)",HIB,27.86,21.98,20.54,14.42,22.49,21.28,16.86,18.29,26.68,32.54,17.82,32.89,33.34,24.50,
"Warsow - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,355.73,323.97,353.92,223.70,307.27,290.50,243.80,292.83,355.17,379.67,12.93,,,,
"x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,96.53,77.13,135.76,63.23,170.36,160.35,95.77,105.70,190.84,223.28,100.83,230.88,173.37,181.95,
"Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,218.17,212.43,232.40,146.24,209.67,202.77,178.81,202.44,225.03,225.61,9.61,,59.82,112.43,28.82