corei7-cpu Intel Core i7-4790K testing with a ASUS SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 and ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB on Linux via the Phoronix Test Suite. ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970: Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB Crucial_CT256MX1, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (540/3505MHz), Audio: Intel 9 Family HD Audio, Monitor: BenQ XL2411Z, Network: Intel Connection OS: Linux, Kernel: 3.17.1-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.14.2, Display Server: X Server 1.16.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 343.22, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1 20140903, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 20027.04 |======================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 15424.77 |======================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 17185.69 |======================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 17105.97 |======================================= John The Ripper 1.8.0 Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 12129333 |======================================= John The Ripper 1.8.0 Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 7609 |=========================================== x264 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 224.99 |========================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 246 |============================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 111 |============================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 150 |============================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 224 |============================================ Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 2220.05 |======================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 25537 |========================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 19.21 |========================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 6.21 |=========================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 64 |============================================= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 3.73 |=========================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 9.63 |=========================================== FFmpeg 2.1.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 10.02 |========================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 733.23 |=========================================