configuration
Intel Core i7-4770 testing with a ASRock Z97 Anniversary and ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB on Arch rolling via the Phoronix Test Suite.


Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-4770 @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Anniversary, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 2 x 2000GB Western Digital WD20EZRX-00D + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARX-00P + 60GB Corsair Force 3, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (135/324MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.3.3-2-ARCH (x86_64), Display Driver: NVIDIA 358.16, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 5.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x1200

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBtest kvm: 

	Processor: 4 x QEMU Virtual (cpu64-rhel6) @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Red Hat KVM, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 1 x 8192 MB RAM, Disk: 137GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device

	OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-74-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: QEMU


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 6881 |==================================
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBtest kvm .. 2780 |==============


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Copy - Benchmark: Floating Point
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 14860.44 |==============================
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBtest kvm .. 6374.23  |=============


BLAKE2 20130131
Phoronix Test Suite v6.0.1
Cycles Per Byte < Lower Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 5.07 |===========================
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBtest kvm .. 6.30 |==================================


x264 2015-11-02
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 183.57 |================================
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBtest kvm .. 34.57  |======


7-Zip Compression 9.20.1
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 21961 |=================================
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBtest kvm .. 7840  |============


ebizzy 0.3
Phoronix Test Suite v6.0.1
Records/s > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 157716 |================================
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBtest kvm .. 16595  |===


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 116.80 |===============
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBtest kvm .. 256.48 |================================


FFmpeg 2.8.1
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 9.98  |=======
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBtest kvm .. 50.12 |=================================


Apache Benchmark 2.4.7
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 36964.78 |==============================
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBtest kvm .. 16565.19 |=============