Herve's Audio Encode Bench Intel Core i7-5960X testing with a ASUS X99-DELUXE and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB on Ubuntu 14.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. herve_audio_encode: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.90GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS X99-DELUXE, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 840 + 512GB SAMSUNG MZHPU512, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB (405/324MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Network: Intel Connection + Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.16.0-28-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.12.2, Display Server: X Server 1.16.1.901 (1.16.2 RC 1), Display Driver: NVIDIA 343.36, OpenGL: 4.4.0, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better herve_audio_encode . 10.82 |=================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better herve_audio_encode . 5.89 |==================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better herve_audio_encode . 11.39 |=================================================== WavPack Audio Encoding 4.41.0 WAV To WavPack Seconds < Lower Is Better herve_audio_encode . 8.45 |====================================================