POWER8 Talos Workstation POWER8 testing with a PowerNV 8335-GCA and AMD Radeon R9 290X on Debian 8.3 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Talos Workstation: Processor: POWER8 @ 3.86GHz (57 Cores), Motherboard: PowerNV 8335-GCA, Memory: 131072MB, Disk: 2000GB HDS722020ALA330, Graphics: AMD Radeon R9 290X, Audio: AMD Device aac8, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit PCIe OS: Debian 8.3, Kernel: 3.16.0-4-powerpc64le (ppc64le), Display Driver: modesetting 0.9.0, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 + Clang 3.5.0-10, File-System: ext4 Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Talos Workstation . 197.82 |=================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Talos Workstation . 34.78 |==================================================== Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 48 MB/s > Higher Is Better Talos Workstation . 130.20 |=================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Talos Workstation . 22.90 |==================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Talos Workstation . 24.13 |==================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Talos Workstation . 22.83 |==================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Talos Workstation . 351.52 |=================================================== VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.3.0 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Talos Workstation . 14.96 |==================================================== x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Talos Workstation . 104.65 |=================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Talos Workstation . 14.70 |==================================================== FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Talos Workstation . 32.70 |==================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Talos Workstation . 101.97 |===================================================