First tests of the Intel Core i7 3960X Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition processor under Linux. Using an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit snapshot with the Linux 3.2 kernel. More tests are on the way on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel. Thanks to Intel Corp for sending out the Core i7 3960X, the Intel X79 motherboard, and the Intel water cooling kit for Sandy-E.
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Intel Core i7 3960X Linux
First tests of the Intel Core i7 3960X Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition processor under Linux. Using an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit snapshot with the Linux 3.2 kernel. More tests are on the way on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel. Thanks to Intel Corp for sending out the Core i7 3960X, the Intel X79 motherboard, and the Intel water cooling kit for Sandy-E.
,,"Intel Core i7 3960X","Intel Core i7 4700HQ"
Processor,,Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-4700HQ @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores)
Motherboard,,Intel DX79SI,ASUS G750JM v1.0
Chipset,,Intel Sandy DMI2,Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th
Memory,,16384MB,31744MB
Disk,,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,1000GB Seagate ST1000LM014-1EJ1 + 1000GB TOSHIBA MQ01ABD1 + 1500GB HGST HTS541515A9 + 1000GB 541010A9E680
Graphics,,AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz),Intel HD 4600 (1200MHz)
Audio,,Realtek ALC892,Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th
Monitor,,DELL P2210H,HP E231
Network,,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Qualcomm Atheros QCA8171 Gigabit + Broadcom BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless
OS,,Ubuntu 12.04,Arch rolling
Kernel,,3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),3.18.6-1-ARCH (x86_64)
Desktop,,Unity 4.24.0,GNOME Shell 3.14.3
Display Server,,X Server 1.10.4,
Display Driver,,fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11,intel 2.99.917
OpenGL,,4.1.11251,3.3 Mesa 10.4.6
Compiler,,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.9.2 20150304 + Clang 3.5.1 + LLVM 3.5.1 + ICC + CUDA 6.5
File-System,,ext4,ext4
Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,3840x1080
,,"Intel Core i7 3960X","Intel Core i7 4700HQ"
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,58.76,96.23
"Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,67,106
"C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,36.23,27.33