Intel Core i7 5960X CPU Core Linux Scaling Intel Core i7 5960X Haswell-E CPU core scaling benchmarks on Ubuntu Linux. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. 16 Threads: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Haswell-E DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Intel Wellsburg HD Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel (git-2828680 2014-09-12 utopic-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 8 Threads: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Haswell-E DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Intel Wellsburg HD Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel (git-2828680 2014-09-12 utopic-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 7 Threads: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (7 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Haswell-E DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Intel Wellsburg HD Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel (git-2828680 2014-09-12 utopic-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 6 Threads: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (6 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Haswell-E DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Intel Wellsburg HD Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel (git-2828680 2014-09-12 utopic-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 5 Threads: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (5 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Haswell-E DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Intel Wellsburg HD Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel (git-2828680 2014-09-12 utopic-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 4 Threads: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Haswell-E DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Intel Wellsburg HD Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel (git-2828680 2014-09-12 utopic-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 3 Threads: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (3 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Haswell-E DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Intel Wellsburg HD Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel (git-2828680 2014-09-12 utopic-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 2 Threads: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Haswell-E DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Intel Wellsburg HD Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel (git-2828680 2014-09-12 utopic-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 1 Thread: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Haswell-E DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Intel Wellsburg HD Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel (git-2828680 2014-09-12 utopic-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 i7 4700HQ scaling: Processor: Intel Core i7-4700HQ @ 2.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS G750JM v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Memory: 31744MB, Disk: 1000GB Seagate ST1000LM014-1EJ1 + 1000GB TOSHIBA MQ01ABD1 + 1500GB HGST HTS541515A9, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 2048MB (540/2505MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell HDMI, Network: Qualcomm Atheros QCA8171 Gigabit + Broadcom BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-39-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.3, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8 + Clang 3.4-1ubuntu3 + LLVM 3.4 + CUDA 6.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better 16 Threads ........ 9.75 |====== 8 Threads ......... 10.56 |======= 7 Threads ......... 12.02 |======== 6 Threads ......... 13.99 |========= 5 Threads ......... 16.74 |=========== 4 Threads ......... 20.88 |============== 3 Threads ......... 27.79 |=================== 2 Threads ......... 39.23 |========================== 1 Thread .......... 78.06 |==================================================== i7 4700HQ scaling . 30.93 |===================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better 16 Threads . 17760000 |======================================================== 8 Threads .. 17600000 |======================================================= 7 Threads .. 15455000 |================================================= 6 Threads .. 13247667 |========================================== 5 Threads .. 11053667 |=================================== 4 Threads .. 8848000 |============================ 3 Threads .. 6643000 |===================== 2 Threads .. 4652333 |=============== 1 Thread ... 2335667 |======= TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2z Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better 16 Threads ........ 266.07 |=================================================== 8 Threads ......... 212.23 |========================================= 7 Threads ......... 195.62 |===================================== 6 Threads ......... 171.06 |================================= 5 Threads ......... 146.70 |============================ 4 Threads ......... 120.62 |======================= 3 Threads ......... 92.92 |================== 2 Threads ......... 48.90 |========= 1 Thread .......... 35.46 |======= i7 4700HQ scaling . 100.96 |=================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better 16 Threads ........ 50.71 |======= 8 Threads ......... 58.38 |======== 7 Threads ......... 65.41 |========= 6 Threads ......... 74.34 |========== 5 Threads ......... 86.88 |============ 4 Threads ......... 105.76 |=============== 3 Threads ......... 137.28 |=================== 2 Threads ......... 189.84 |========================== 1 Thread .......... 367.57 |=================================================== i7 4700HQ scaling . 95.19 |============= x264 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 16 Threads ........ 243.77 |=================================================== 8 Threads ......... 215.70 |============================================= 7 Threads ......... 196.41 |========================================= 6 Threads ......... 169.40 |=================================== 5 Threads ......... 144.93 |============================== 4 Threads ......... 122.34 |========================== 3 Threads ......... 101.78 |===================== 2 Threads ......... 78.43 |================ 1 Thread .......... 45.67 |========== i7 4700HQ scaling . 157.64 |================================= VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 16 Threads ........ 28.16 |======================================= 8 Threads ......... 31.90 |============================================ 7 Threads ......... 37.89 |==================================================== 6 Threads ......... 36.91 |=================================================== 5 Threads ......... 34.68 |================================================ 4 Threads ......... 31.02 |=========================================== 3 Threads ......... 26.36 |==================================== 2 Threads ......... 21.29 |============================= 1 Thread .......... 11.84 |================ i7 4700HQ scaling . 21.29 |============================= Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better 16 Threads ........ 34.10 |=================== 8 Threads ......... 33.67 |=================== 7 Threads ......... 34.42 |==================== 6 Threads ......... 34.55 |==================== 5 Threads ......... 36.63 |===================== 4 Threads ......... 39.02 |====================== 3 Threads ......... 44.20 |========================= 2 Threads ......... 53.62 |=============================== 1 Thread .......... 91.21 |==================================================== i7 4700HQ scaling . 33.89 |=================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 16 Threads ........ 116 |====================================================== 8 Threads ......... 116 |====================================================== 7 Threads ......... 112 |==================================================== 6 Threads ......... 108 |================================================== 5 Threads ......... 102 |=============================================== 4 Threads ......... 94 |============================================ 3 Threads ......... 83 |======================================= 2 Threads ......... 67 |=============================== 1 Thread .......... 50 |======================= i7 4700HQ scaling . 72 |================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better 16 Threads . 11577 |=========================================================== 8 Threads .. 7411 |====================================== 7 Threads .. 6492 |================================= 6 Threads .. 5568 |============================ 5 Threads .. 4643 |======================== 4 Threads .. 3716 |=================== 3 Threads .. 2790 |============== 2 Threads .. 1975 |========== 1 Thread ... 990 |===== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.C Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better 16 Threads ........ 498.48 |=================================================== 8 Threads ......... 301.89 |=============================== 7 Threads ......... 287.05 |============================= 6 Threads ......... 244.74 |========================= 5 Threads ......... 205.11 |===================== 4 Threads ......... 164.70 |================= 3 Threads ......... 123.22 |============= 2 Threads ......... 87.34 |========= 1 Thread .......... 43.83 |==== i7 4700HQ scaling . 229.23 |======================= Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better 16 Threads ........ 14 |===== 8 Threads ......... 19 |======= 7 Threads ......... 22 |======== 6 Threads ......... 25 |========== 5 Threads ......... 30 |=========== 4 Threads ......... 38 |=============== 3 Threads ......... 50 |=================== 2 Threads ......... 72 |============================ 1 Thread .......... 141 |====================================================== i7 4700HQ scaling . 136 |==================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 16 Threads ........ 153 |============================================== 8 Threads ......... 150 |============================================= 7 Threads ......... 146 |============================================ 6 Threads ......... 143 |=========================================== 5 Threads ......... 138 |========================================== 4 Threads ......... 133 |======================================== 3 Threads ......... 126 |====================================== 2 Threads ......... 116 |=================================== 1 Thread .......... 140 |========================================== i7 4700HQ scaling . 179 |====================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 16 Threads ........ 116 |==================================================== 8 Threads ......... 121 |====================================================== 7 Threads ......... 119 |===================================================== 6 Threads ......... 113 |================================================== 5 Threads ......... 107 |================================================ 4 Threads ......... 104 |============================================== 3 Threads ......... 90 |======================================== 2 Threads ......... 82 |===================================== 1 Thread .......... 102 |============================================== i7 4700HQ scaling . 119 |===================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 16 Threads ........ 153 |==================================================== 8 Threads ......... 158 |====================================================== 7 Threads ......... 154 |===================================================== 6 Threads ......... 150 |=================================================== 5 Threads ......... 146 |================================================== 4 Threads ......... 141 |================================================ 3 Threads ......... 134 |============================================== 2 Threads ......... 120 |========================================= 1 Thread .......... 117 |======================================== i7 4700HQ scaling . 148 |=================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 16 Threads ........ 79 |================================================ 8 Threads ......... 77 |=============================================== 7 Threads ......... 78 |================================================ 6 Threads ......... 77 |=============================================== 5 Threads ......... 77 |=============================================== 4 Threads ......... 77 |=============================================== 3 Threads ......... 77 |=============================================== 2 Threads ......... 77 |=============================================== 1 Thread .......... 90 |======================================================= i7 4700HQ scaling . 81 |==================================================