Intel Skylake Governor Linux 4.5 Intel Linux 4.5 benchmarks on Ubuntu. Tests by Michael Larabel. P-State Powersave: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Intel Sky Lake (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160218, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA), Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 P-State Performance: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Intel Sky Lake (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160218, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA), Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 CPUFreq Ondemand: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Intel Sky Lake (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160218, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA), Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 CPUFreq Performance: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Intel Sky Lake (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160218, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA), Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 CPUFreq Powersave: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Intel Sky Lake (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160218, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA), Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 CPUFreq Conservative: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Intel Sky Lake (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160218, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA), Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better P-State Powersave .... 46.89 |=========================================== P-State Performance .. 53.04 |================================================ CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 52.53 |================================================ CPUFreq Performance .. 53.64 |================================================= CPUFreq Powersave .... 39.84 |==================================== CPUFreq Conservative . 41.68 |====================================== Team Fortress 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better P-State Powersave .... 49.41 |============================================ P-State Performance .. 54.59 |================================================= CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 53.23 |================================================ CPUFreq Performance .. 54.54 |================================================= CPUFreq Powersave .... 28.73 |========================== CPUFreq Conservative . 41.06 |===================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better P-State Powersave .... 75.00 |============================================ P-State Performance .. 84.22 |================================================= CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 80.33 |=============================================== CPUFreq Performance .. 84.08 |================================================= CPUFreq Powersave .... 59.49 |=================================== CPUFreq Conservative . 69.31 |======================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better P-State Powersave .... 32.13 |=========================================== P-State Performance .. 36.62 |================================================= CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 36.38 |================================================= CPUFreq Performance .. 36.64 |================================================= CPUFreq Powersave .... 30.68 |========================================= CPUFreq Conservative . 30.97 |========================================= x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better P-State Powersave .... 175.00 |================================================ P-State Performance .. 175.26 |================================================ CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 173.16 |=============================================== CPUFreq Performance .. 175.35 |================================================ CPUFreq Powersave .... 36.99 |========== CPUFreq Conservative . 170.99 |=============================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better P-State Powersave .... 2501.99 |=============================================== P-State Performance .. 2505.86 |=============================================== CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 2493.02 |=============================================== CPUFreq Performance .. 2495.77 |=============================================== CPUFreq Powersave .... 551.57 |========== CPUFreq Conservative . 2465.16 |============================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better P-State Powersave .... 118.53 |========== P-State Performance .. 118.61 |========== CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 119.39 |========== CPUFreq Performance .. 118.55 |========== CPUFreq Powersave .... 551.62 |================================================ CPUFreq Conservative . 121.29 |=========== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better P-State Powersave .... 11.11 |========== P-State Performance .. 11.11 |========== CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 11.12 |========== CPUFreq Performance .. 11.11 |========== CPUFreq Powersave .... 53.96 |================================================= CPUFreq Conservative . 11.46 |========== FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better P-State Powersave .... 8.48 |=========== P-State Performance .. 8.48 |=========== CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 10.17 |============= CPUFreq Performance .. 8.46 |=========== CPUFreq Powersave .... 38.08 |================================================= CPUFreq Conservative . 8.59 |=========== R Benchmark Phoronix Test Suite v6.2.0 Seconds < Lower Is Better P-State Powersave .... 0.7603 |=========== P-State Performance .. 0.7653 |=========== CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 0.7642 |=========== CPUFreq Performance .. 0.7616 |=========== CPUFreq Powersave .... 3.4692 |================================================ CPUFreq Conservative . 0.7693 |=========== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better P-State Powersave .... 2681.66 |============================================== P-State Performance .. 2712.60 |=============================================== CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 2637.48 |============================================== CPUFreq Performance .. 2716.51 |=============================================== CPUFreq Powersave .... 1753.03 |============================== CPUFreq Conservative . 2191.69 |====================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better P-State Powersave .... 3322431.00 |============================================ P-State Performance .. 3340914.58 |============================================ CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 3240421.92 |=========================================== CPUFreq Performance .. 3307760.08 |============================================ CPUFreq Powersave .... 692052.98 |========= CPUFreq Conservative . 1423136.50 |=================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better P-State Powersave .... 44646.21 |============================================ P-State Performance .. 44656.39 |============================================ CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 44267.29 |============================================ CPUFreq Performance .. 46322.83 |============================================== CPUFreq Powersave .... 9679.80 |========== CPUFreq Conservative . 45901.47 |==============================================