Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5 On Fedora 23 Various open-source benchmarks by the Phoronix Test Suite v5.8.0 (Belev). Samsung SSD 850 - Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5 @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake /DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (1050/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Fedora 23, Kernel: 4.5.6-200.fc23.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 358.16, OpenGL: 4.4.0, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160406, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 128MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: IOPS IOPS > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 - Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 3 |======================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 128MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 - Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 561.20 |=================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 128MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: IOPS IOPS > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 - Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 3 |======================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 128MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 - Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 561.19 |=================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 128MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: IOPS IOPS > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 - Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 3 |======================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 128MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 - Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 563.01 |=================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: Yes - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 128MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: IOPS IOPS > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 - Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 3 |======================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: Yes - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 128MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 - Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 563.61 |=================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 - Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 21776 |====================