phoronix Intel Core i7-6700 testing with a ASUS Z170-A and NVIDIA GeForce 310 512MB on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. test: Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 945 @ 3.00GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 160GB Seagate ST3160215AS, Graphics: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RS780 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889A, Monitor: PLE2607WS OS: Calculate Linux Desktop 11.15 GNOME, Kernel: 3.3.3-calculate (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.2.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.11.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.5.3 + LLVM 2.9, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 simon: Processor: Intel Core i7-6700 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Z170-A, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKX-2 + 250GB Samsung SSD 750, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 310 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: L9W, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-45-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1440x900 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better test .. 8623 |============================ simon . 19560 |================================================================ Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better test .. 17.14 |================================================================ simon . 8.18 |=============================== x264 2011-12-06 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better test . 63.26 |================================================================= OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better test . 56.65 |================================================================= Gcrypt Library 1.4.4 CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher Microseconds < Lower Is Better test . 3200 |================================================================== John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better test .. 3399 |============================================= simon . 4953 |================================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better test . 43 |==================================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better test . 99 |==================================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better test .. 508.79 |============================= simon . 1077.87 |============================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better test .. 93.79 |================================================================ simon . 26.62 |================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better test .. 204 |================================================================== simon . 80 |========================== Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better test . 113.59 |================================================================ Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better test . 25.11 |================================================================= Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better test . 13.07 |================================================================= Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Quasigroup Seconds < Lower Is Better test .. 233.02 |=============================================================== simon . 158.04 |=========================================== Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Solitaire Seconds < Lower Is Better test .. 389.58 |=============================================================== simon . 90.71 |=============== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better test .. 87.64 |====================== simon . 252.03 |=============================================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: IS.C Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better test .. 68.99 |================== simon . 237.28 |=============================================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better test .. 4446.44 |============================= simon . 9450.34 |============================================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better test .. 18.38 |============================== simon . 38.98 |================================================================ Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better test . 54.52 |=================================================================