Ubuntu 15.10 Performance Various open-source benchmarks by the Phoronix Test Suite v5.2.1 (Khanino). Intel Core i7-5960X: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885) v3.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 129024MB, Disk: 500GB Samsung SSD 850 + 1000GB Samsung SSD 850 + 180GB INTEL SSDSC2CW18, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB (324/324MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 352.63, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4 (ecryptfs), Screen Resolution: 3600x1080 Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 4.56 |=================================================== CacheBench Test: Read / Modify / Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 23823.12 |=============================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 1680.02 |================================================