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 Core2Quad Q9300: Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: PEGATRON Benicia v1.01, Chipset: Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31 + ICH9R, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 640GB Western Digital WD6400AAKS-6 + 1000GB 10EADS External + 1500GB Ext HDD 1021, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 896MB (633/1134MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1200, Monitor: Idek Iiyama PLE2403WS, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 4.2.0-1-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 340.93, OpenGL: 3.3.0, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151028, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 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 |=================================== Core2Quad Q9300 . 55.02 |====================================================== 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 |==================== 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 |======================== Core2Quad Q9300 . 25.20 |====================================================== 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 |====================== Core2Quad Q9300 . 15241.75 |=============== 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 |========================================== Core2Quad Q9300 . 64.24 |================ 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 |=============== Core2Quad Q9300 . 901.41 |================= 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 |======================= Core2Quad Q9300 . 250.29 |===================================================== 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 |====================== Core2Quad Q9300 . 47.18 |====================================================== 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 |====================== Core2Quad Q9300 . 82 |========================================================= 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 |====================== Core2Quad Q9300 . 23.42 |====================================================== 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 |==================================== Core2Quad Q9300 . 26.08 |======================================================