audotest Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3 testing on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. audiotest: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3 @ 2.24GHz (24 Cores), Motherboard: Microsoft Virtual Machine, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 136GB Virtual Disk OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-32-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1152x864 Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better audiotest . 7.36 |============================================================= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better audiotest . 10.57 |============================================================ LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better audiotest . 18.47 |============================================================ WavPack Audio Encoding 4.41.0 WAV To WavPack Seconds < Lower Is Better audiotest . 12.74 |============================================================