Intel Core i5 6600K Skylake CPU Tests Intel Core i5 6600K Linux CPU benchmarks. Tests results by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix. Core i7 4770K: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Intel HD 4600 (1250MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: G237HL, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Fedora 22, Kernel: 4.2.0-0.rc6.git0.1.fc24.x86_64 (x86_64) 20150810, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.16.3, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.6.3 (git-ccef890), Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Core i7 4790K: Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3P, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Intel HD 4600 (1250MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Fedora 22, Kernel: 4.2.0-0.rc6.git0.1.fc24.x86_64 (x86_64) 20150810, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.16.3, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.6.3 (git-ccef890), Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Core i7 5775C: Processor: Intel Core i7-5775C @ 3.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z97-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Broadwell-U- DMI, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Intel Broadwell-U (1150MHz), Audio: Intel Broadwell-U Audio, Monitor: VE228, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit OS: Fedora 22, Kernel: 4.2.0-0.rc6.git0.1.fc24.x86_64 (x86_64) 20150810, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.16.3, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.6.3 (git-ccef890), Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Core i5 6600K: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Intel Sky Lake (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel Connection OS: Fedora 22, Kernel: 4.2.0-0.rc6.git0.1.fc24.x86_64 (x86_64) 20150810, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.16.3, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.6.3 (git-ccef890), Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 A10-7850K: Processor: AMD A10-7850K APU with Radeon R7 @ 3.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS A88X-PRO, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon R7 512MB (351MHz), Audio: AMD Kaveri HDMI/DP, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Fedora 22, Kernel: 4.2.0-0.rc6.git0.1.fc24.x86_64 (x86_64) 20150810, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.16.3, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.6.3 (git-ccef890) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 A10-7870K: Processor: AMD A10-7870K Radeon R7 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS A88XM-E, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon R7 1024MB (355MHz), Audio: AMD Kaveri HDMI/DP, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Fedora 22, Kernel: 4.2.0-0.rc6.git0.1.fc24.x86_64 (x86_64) 20150810, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.16.3, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.6.3 (git-ccef890) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 FX 8320E: Processor: AMD FX-8320E Eight-Core @ 3.20GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693) v4.0, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 5770 1024MB (157/300MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: VE228, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit OS: Fedora 22, Kernel: 4.2.0-0.rc6.git0.1.fc24.x86_64 (x86_64) 20150810, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.16.3, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.6.3 (git-ccef890) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 FX 8370: Processor: AMD FX-8370 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Killer, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: AMD FirePro V8700 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: VE228, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit OS: Fedora 22, Kernel: 4.2.0-0.rc6.git0.1.fc24.x86_64 (x86_64) 20150810, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.16.3, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.6.3 (git-ccef890) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 FX 8320 @ 4.6GHz: Processor: AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core @ 4.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte 990XA-UD3, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Samsung SSD 840 + 4001GB Seagate ST4000DM000-1F21, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (135/324MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.1.5-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: MATE 1.10.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 352.30, OpenGL: 4.4.0, Compiler: GCC 5.2.0 + Clang 3.6.2 + LLVM 3.6.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3200x1200 Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 4770K .... 21.40 |========================= Core i7 4790K .... 19.37 |======================= Core i7 5775C .... 21.24 |========================= Core i5 6600K .... 20.13 |======================== A10-7850K ........ 44.67 |===================================================== A10-7870K ........ 41.05 |================================================= FX 8320E ......... 38.85 |============================================== FX 8370 .......... 35.90 |=========================================== FX 8320 @ 4.6GHz . 32.57 |======================================= FFTW 3.3.4 Build: Float + SSE - Size: 2D FFT Size 4096 Mflops > Higher Is Better Core i7 4770K .... 11754.00 |================================= Core i7 4790K .... 13946.00 |======================================= Core i7 5775C .... 15648.00 |=========================================== Core i5 6600K .... 18004.00 |================================================== A10-7850K ........ 5439.72 |=============== A10-7870K ........ 6022.78 |================= FX 8320E ......... 6383.84 |================== FX 8370 .......... 6809.24 |=================== FX 8320 @ 4.6GHz . 6954.74 |=================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 4770K . 12.91 |======================================= Core i7 4790K . 8.34 |========================= Core i7 5775C . 8.06 |======================== Core i5 6600K . 8.90 |=========================== A10-7850K ..... 18.59 |======================================================== A10-7870K ..... 17.32 |==================================================== FX 8320E ...... 14.13 |=========================================== FX 8370 ....... 11.20 |================================== CacheBench Test: Read / Modify / Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Core i7 4770K .... 40885.74 |======================================== Core i7 4790K .... 51025.17 |================================================== Core i7 5775C .... 42602.98 |========================================== Core i5 6600K .... 31827.66 |=============================== A10-7850K ........ 24141.70 |======================== A10-7870K ........ 25516.35 |========================= FX 8320E ......... 20860.07 |==================== FX 8370 .......... 22362.71 |====================== FX 8320 @ 4.6GHz . 24182.52 |======================== x264 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i7 4770K .... 187.79 |============================================== Core i7 4790K .... 214.61 |==================================================== Core i7 5775C .... 198.23 |================================================ Core i5 6600K .... 176.49 |=========================================== A10-7850K ........ 88.83 |====================== A10-7870K ........ 94.13 |======================= FX 8320E ......... 137.49 |================================= FX 8370 .......... 169.29 |========================================= FX 8320 @ 4.6GHz . 176.95 |=========================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Core i7 4770K .... 1747.73 |================================ Core i7 4790K .... 2040.13 |===================================== Core i7 5775C .... 2510.89 |============================================== Core i5 6600K .... 2780.10 |=================================================== A10-7850K ........ 868.86 |================ A10-7870K ........ 965.60 |================== FX 8320E ......... 742.58 |============== FX 8370 .......... 792.57 |=============== FX 8320 @ 4.6GHz . 805.07 |=============== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.18-rc6 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 4770K .... 98.05 |========================= Core i7 4790K .... 84.49 |===================== Core i7 5775C .... 89.84 |======================= Core i5 6600K .... 100.68 |========================= A10-7850K ........ 207.14 |==================================================== A10-7870K ........ 194.01 |================================================= FX 8320E ......... 133.97 |================================== FX 8370 .......... 109.85 |============================ FX 8320 @ 4.6GHz . 112.39 |============================ C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 4770K .... 17.07 |====================== Core i7 4790K .... 15.04 |==================== Core i7 5775C .... 17.59 |======================= Core i5 6600K .... 15.13 |==================== A10-7850K ........ 40.26 |===================================================== A10-7870K ........ 38.11 |================================================== FX 8320E ......... 24.44 |================================ FX 8370 .......... 19.53 |========================== FX 8320 @ 4.6GHz . 20.26 |=========================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 4770K .... 25 |===================== Core i7 4790K .... 22 |================== Core i7 5775C .... 22 |================== Core i5 6600K .... 28 |======================= A10-7850K ........ 67 |======================================================== A10-7870K ........ 63 |===================================================== FX 8320E ......... 39 |================================= FX 8370 .......... 32 |=========================== FX 8320 @ 4.6GHz . 32 |=========================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 4770K .... 5.95 |============================== Core i7 4790K .... 5.36 |=========================== Core i7 5775C .... 6.35 |================================ Core i5 6600K .... 4.98 |========================= A10-7850K ........ 10.49 |===================================================== A10-7870K ........ 9.95 |================================================== FX 8320E ......... 10.35 |==================================================== FX 8370 .......... 9.63 |================================================= FX 8320 @ 4.6GHz . 8.96 |============================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 4770K .... 11.25 |================================ Core i7 4790K .... 9.90 |============================ Core i7 5775C .... 11.78 |================================= Core i5 6600K .... 10.85 |============================== A10-7850K ........ 18.74 |===================================================== A10-7870K ........ 17.78 |================================================== FX 8320E ......... 18.90 |===================================================== FX 8370 .......... 17.57 |================================================= FX 8320 @ 4.6GHz . 16.55 |==============================================