Ryan's Desktop System Comparison Tests
Intel Core i5-4670 testing with a ASRock Z87E-ITX and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2048MB on LinuxMint 17.2 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


Haswell-LM17.2-Sept15: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5-4670 @ 3.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z87E-ITX, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSA2M080 + 1000GB Seagate ST1000DM003-9YN1 + 1000GB Seagate ST1000DM003-1ER1, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2048MB (1176/2700MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Network: Intel Connection I217-V + Broadcom BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless

	OS: LinuxMint 17.2, Kernel: 3.19.0-26-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 2.6.13, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 355.11, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8.4, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200

Haswell_LM15_Aug13: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5-4670 @ 3.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z87E-ITX, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSA2M080 + 1000GB Seagate ST1000DM003-9YN1, Graphics: Intel Haswell IGP, Audio: Intel Haswell HDMI, Monitor: DELL U2412M, Network: Intel Connection I217-V + Atheros AR5418 Wireless

	OS: LinuxMint 15, Kernel: 3.8.0-29-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.5, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: intel 2.21.9, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.1.3, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200

Clarkdale_LM15_July13: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5 660 @ 3.33GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte H55N-USB3, Chipset: Intel Core DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSA2M080 + 1000GB Seagate ST1000DM003-9YN1, Graphics: Intel Core IGP, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL U2412M, Network: Atheros AR5418 Wireless

	OS: LinuxMint 15, Kernel: 3.8.0-29-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.5, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: intel 2.21.9, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.1.3, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200


Unpacking The Linux Kernel
linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Haswell-LM17.2-Sept15 . 8.58  |===========================
Haswell_LM15_Aug13 .... 9.09  |============================
Clarkdale_LM15_July13 . 15.46 |================================================


Xonotic 0.8
Resolution: 1920 x 1200 - Effects Quality: Ultra
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Haswell-LM17.2-Sept15 . 228.63 |===============================================


1080p H.264 Video Playback 1.1
Video Decoding: VDPAU
Percent
Haswell-LM17.2-Sept15 . MIN: 0.3  AVG: 1.0  MAX: 2.2 


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Haswell-LM17.2-Sept15 . 12191.27 |=============================================
Haswell_LM15_Aug13 .... 11916.62 |============================================
Clarkdale_LM15_July13 . 8721.61  |================================


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Haswell-LM17.2-Sept15 . 12981.49 |=============================================
Haswell_LM15_Aug13 .... 12638.51 |============================================
Clarkdale_LM15_July13 . 9348.38  |================================


7-Zip Compression 9.20.1
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
Haswell-LM17.2-Sept15 . 15233 |================================================
Haswell_LM15_Aug13 .... 14818 |===============================================
Clarkdale_LM15_July13 . 7879  |=========================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Haswell-LM17.2-Sept15 . 7.12 |=================================================


PyBench 2008-08-14
Total For Average Test Times
Milliseconds < Lower Is Better
Haswell-LM17.2-Sept15 . 1420 |===========================
Haswell_LM15_Aug13 .... 1564 |==============================
Clarkdale_LM15_July13 . 2573 |=================================================


Xonotic 0.7
Resolution: 1920 x 1200 - Effects Quality: Ultra
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Haswell_LM15_Aug13 .... 30.92 |================================================
Clarkdale_LM15_July13 . 11.47 |==================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Haswell_LM15_Aug13 .... 4.82 |===============================
Clarkdale_LM15_July13 . 7.53 |=================================================