Intel Core i5-6500 testing with a Gigabyte Z170M-D3H-CF and Intel Sky Lake on Ubuntu 15.10. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.
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Skylake CPU Scaling P-State vs. CPUFreq
Intel Core i5-6500 testing with a Gigabyte Z170M-D3H-CF and Intel Sky Lake on Ubuntu 15.10. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.
P-State Powersave:
Processor: Intel Core i5-6500 @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170M-D3H-CF, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3, Graphics: Intel Sky Lake (1050MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.3.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20151013, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
P-State Performance:
Processor: Intel Core i5-6500 @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170M-D3H-CF, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3, Graphics: Intel Sky Lake (1050MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.3.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20151013, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
CPUFreq Performance:
Processor: Intel Core i5-6500 @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170M-D3H-CF, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3, Graphics: Intel Sky Lake (1050MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.3.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20151013, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
CPUFreq Powersave:
Processor: Intel Core i5-6500 @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170M-D3H-CF, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3, Graphics: Intel Sky Lake (1050MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.3.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20151013, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
CPUFreq Ondemand:
Processor: Intel Core i5-6500 @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170M-D3H-CF, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3, Graphics: Intel Sky Lake (1050MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.3.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20151013, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
P-State Powersave ... 23.41 |==================================================
P-State Performance . 23.41 |==================================================
CPUFreq Performance . 23.41 |==================================================
CPUFreq Powersave ... 23.42 |==================================================
CPUFreq Ondemand .... 23.41 |==================================================
FFmpeg 2.6.2
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
P-State Powersave ... 9.92 |============================================
P-State Performance . 10.01 |=============================================
CPUFreq Performance . 11.23 |==================================================
CPUFreq Powersave ... 11.23 |==================================================
CPUFreq Ondemand .... 11.22 |==================================================
FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
P-State Powersave ... 5.61 |===================================================
P-State Performance . 5.62 |===================================================
CPUFreq Performance . 5.63 |===================================================
CPUFreq Powersave ... 5.61 |===================================================
CPUFreq Ondemand .... 5.61 |===================================================
LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
P-State Powersave ... 12.06 |==================================================
P-State Performance . 12.07 |==================================================
CPUFreq Performance . 12.08 |==================================================
CPUFreq Powersave ... 12.08 |==================================================
CPUFreq Ondemand .... 12.06 |==================================================
OpenArena 0.8.8
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
P-State Powersave ... 49.50 |==========================================
P-State Performance . 48.93 |==========================================
CPUFreq Performance . 58.70 |==================================================
CPUFreq Powersave ... 58.63 |==================================================
CPUFreq Ondemand .... 58.67 |==================================================
OpenArena 0.8.8
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time
Milliseconds < Lower Is Better
P-State Powersave ... MIN: 14.0 AVG: 20.1 MAX: 54.0
P-State Performance . MIN: 14.0 AVG: 20.1 MAX: 70.0
CPUFreq Performance . MIN: 13.0 AVG: 16.7 MAX: 52.0
CPUFreq Powersave ... MIN: 13.0 AVG: 16.6 MAX: 52.0
CPUFreq Ondemand .... MIN: 14.0 AVG: 16.8 MAX: 55.0
Tesseract 2014-05-12
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
P-State Powersave ... 39.24 |===============================================
P-State Performance . 39.03 |===============================================
CPUFreq Performance . 41.10 |=================================================
CPUFreq Powersave ... 41.52 |==================================================
CPUFreq Ondemand .... 41.34 |==================================================
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.18-rc6
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
P-State Powersave ... 127.77 |=================================================
P-State Performance . 127.62 |=================================================
CPUFreq Performance . 128.02 |=================================================
CPUFreq Powersave ... 127.98 |=================================================
CPUFreq Ondemand .... 128.18 |=================================================
x264 2014-08-30
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
P-State Powersave ... 141.89 |=================================================
P-State Performance . 142.50 |=================================================
CPUFreq Performance . 140.90 |================================================
CPUFreq Powersave ... 140.00 |================================================
CPUFreq Ondemand .... 140.71 |================================================
Xonotic 0.8
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
P-State Powersave ... 50.53 |================================================
P-State Performance . 50.41 |================================================
CPUFreq Performance . 52.39 |==================================================
CPUFreq Powersave ... 52.42 |==================================================
CPUFreq Ondemand .... 52.45 |==================================================
Xonotic 0.8
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
P-State Powersave ... 25.55 |================================================
P-State Performance . 25.61 |================================================
CPUFreq Performance . 26.67 |==================================================
CPUFreq Powersave ... 26.70 |==================================================
CPUFreq Ondemand .... 26.73 |==================================================
Xonotic 0.8
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
P-State Powersave ... 21.13 |================================================
P-State Performance . 21.17 |================================================
CPUFreq Performance . 21.89 |==================================================
CPUFreq Powersave ... 21.92 |==================================================
CPUFreq Ondemand .... 21.94 |==================================================
Xonotic 0.8
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultimate
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
P-State Powersave ... 16.43 |=================================================
P-State Performance . 16.45 |=================================================
CPUFreq Performance . 16.87 |==================================================
CPUFreq Powersave ... 16.86 |==================================================
CPUFreq Ondemand .... 16.89 |==================================================