my systems AMD Phenom II X4 955 testing with a Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3 and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1024MB on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800: Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3, Chipset: AMD RX780/RX790 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH1 + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EADS-00M + 2 x 3001GB Seagate ST3000DM001-1CH1, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1024MB (850/2052MHz), Audio: NVIDIA GF114 HDMI Audio, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-37-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.13.3, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: modesetting 0.8.1, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8 + CUDA 5.5, File-System: ext4 (ecryptfs), Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 536 |================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 6011.89 |============================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 6690.58 |============================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 45.79 |================================ Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 45.89 |================================ Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 23908.85 |============================= Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 23831.17 |============================= Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 9.39 |================================= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 8.13 |================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 22.60 |================================ Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 22.62 |================================ WavPack Audio Encoding 4.41.0 WAV To WavPack Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 12.65 |================================ TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 696306 |=============================== Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 696835 |=============================== Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 105.95 |=============================== Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 106.09 |=============================== Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 53.20 |============================= Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 58.10 |================================ Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 157.20 |=============================== Timed MPlayer Compilation 1.0-rc3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 88.31 |================================ Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 52.39 |================================ Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 52.73 |================================ NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 5027.89 |============================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 19.46 |=============================== Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 20.05 |================================ Gcrypt Library 1.4.4 CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher Microseconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 3413 |================================= John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 3384 |================================= x264 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 70.53 |================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 51 |=================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 106 |================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 124 |================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 9725 |================================= Bullet Physics Engine 2.81 Test: Raytests Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 6.62 |================================= Bullet Physics Engine 2.81 Test: 3000 Fall Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 10.68 |================================ Bullet Physics Engine 2.81 Test: 1000 Stack Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 12.51 |================================ Bullet Physics Engine 2.81 Test: 1000 Convex Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 9.93 |================================= Bullet Physics Engine 2.81 Test: Convex Trimesh Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 2.47 |================================= OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 367.43 |=============================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 10.98 |================================ Timed MrBayes Analysis 3.1.2 Primate Phylogeny Analysis Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 25.17 |================================ GMPbench 0.2 Total Time GMPbench Score > Higher Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 3106.60 |============================== Fhourstones 3.1 Complex Connect-4 Solving Kpos / sec > Higher Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 9029.33 |============================== BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Dhrystone 2 LPS > Higher Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 17376467.03 |========================== SciMark 2.0 Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 617.52 |=============================== dcraw RAW To PPM Image Conversion Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 112.64 |=============================== Minion 0.15 Solitaire Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 233.21 |=============================== Open FMM Nero2D 2.0.2 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 989.84 |=============================== Sudokut 0.4 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 26.78 |================================ GnuPG 1.4.10 1GB File Encryption Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 13.21 |================================