cpu-recommended Intel Core i5-2500K testing with a Gigabyte P67A-UD3R-B3 and Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 1019MB on Ubuntu 16.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Celeron G1610T: Processor: Intel Celeron G1610T @ 2.30GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2GB Internal SD-CARD + 64GB C300-CTFDDAC064M, Graphics: Matrox s MGA G200EH, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-30-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 640x480 Intel Core i3-3225: Processor: Intel Core i3-3225 @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2GB Internal SD-CARD + 64GB C300-CTFDDAC064M, Graphics: Matrox s MGA G200EH, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-30-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 640x480 i5-2500k: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte P67A-UD3R-B3, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 500GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DX001-1CM1 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DL003-9VT1 + 1000GB Western Digital WD1001FALS-0 + 1500GB Seagate ST31500341AS, Graphics: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 1019MB (1058/2505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.4.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.20.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 367.18, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160519 + Clang 3.8.0-2ubuntu3 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 4160x1024 C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Celeron G1610T . 97.57 |================================================= Intel Core i3-3225 ... 65.01 |================================= i5-2500k ............. 33.27 |================= Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Celeron G1610T . 40.26 |================================================= Intel Core i3-3225 ... 22.05 |=========================== i5-2500k ............. 13.03 |================ Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Intel Celeron G1610T . 985.26 |============================== Intel Core i3-3225 ... 1392.34 |========================================== i5-2500k ............. 1544.68 |=============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Celeron G1610T . 740.57 |================================ Intel Core i3-3225 ... 1039.67 |============================================= i5-2500k ............. 1094.45 |=============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Celeron G1610T . 327.94 |================================ Intel Core i3-3225 ... 470.21 |============================================== i5-2500k ............. 485.52 |================================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Celeron G1610T . 168.46 |======================================= Intel Core i3-3225 ... 209.79 |================================================ i5-2500k ............. 204.89 |=============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Celeron G1610T . 1233.31 |================================== Intel Core i3-3225 ... 1723.37 |=============================================== i5-2500k ............. 1661.13 |============================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Celeron G1610T . 1284.10 |============================== Intel Core i3-3225 ... 1806.85 |========================================== i5-2500k ............. 2017.06 |=============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Celeron G1610T . 689.04 |============================= Intel Core i3-3225 ... 988.11 |========================================== i5-2500k ............. 1103.67 |===============================================