Clear Linux Kabylake CPU Comparison Intel Core i7-6700K testing with a ASUS Z170-DELUXE and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3072MB on Fedora 25 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Core i3 7100: Processor: Intel Core i3-7100 @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z270-P, Chipset: Intel Device 590f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Intel Kabylake GT2 3072MB (1100MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Clear Linux 12950, Kernel: 4.9.5-302.native (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.19.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.1, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.0.0-devel, OpenCL: OpenCL 2.0 beignet 1.3, Vulkan: 1.0.37, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 + Clang 3.9.1 + LLVM 3.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Core i5 7600K: Processor: Intel Core i5-7600K @ 3.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z270-P, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Intel Kabylake GT2 3072MB (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Clear Linux 12950, Kernel: 4.9.5-302.native (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.19.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.1, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.0.0-devel, OpenCL: OpenCL 2.0 beignet 1.3, Vulkan: 1.0.37, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 + Clang 3.9.1 + LLVM 3.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Core i7 7700K: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.20GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z270-P, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Intel Kabylake GT2 3072MB (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Clear Linux 12960, Kernel: 4.9.5-302.native (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.19.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.1, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.0.0-devel, OpenCL: OpenCL 2.0 beignet 1.3, Vulkan: 1.0.37, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 + Clang 3.9.1 + LLVM 3.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Core i7 6700K: Processor: Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Z170-DELUXE, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 500GB Samsung SSD 850 + 500GB Samsung SSD 840 + 512GB INTEL SSDPEKKW512G7 + Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3072MB (215/405MHz), Audio: Intel Sunrise Point-H HD Audio, Network: Intel Connection OS: Fedora 25, Kernel: 4.9.5-200.fc25.x86_64 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.19.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 375.26, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.24, Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 20161221, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 5120x1440 ET: Legacy 2.75 Renderer: Renderer2 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 78.37 |============================================== Core i5 7600K . 90.87 |===================================================== Core i7 7700K . 96.27 |======================================================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 60.08 |================================================= Core i5 7600K . 67.10 |======================================================= Core i7 7700K . 68.12 |======================================================== Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 14.50 |================================================= Core i5 7600K . 16.40 |======================================================= Core i7 7700K . 16.67 |======================================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 213.20 |============================================= Core i5 7600K . 240.35 |================================================== Core i7 7700K . 262.40 |======================================================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 92.48 |================================================= Core i5 7600K . 101.10 |====================================================== Core i7 7700K . 103.51 |======================================================= Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP Stencil Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 41.87 |======================================================== Core i5 7600K . 33.84 |============================================= Core i7 7700K . 29.77 |======================================== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP MRI Gridding Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 21.23 |======================================== Core i5 7600K . 23.90 |============================================= Core i7 7700K . 29.92 |======================================================== FFTW 3.3.4 Build: Float + SSE - Size: 2D FFT Size 1024 Mflops > Higher Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 17326 |======================================== Core i5 7600K . 20187 |============================================== Core i7 7700K . 22576 |==================================================== Core i7 6700K . 24356 |======================================================== Numpy Benchmark Phoronix Test Suite v7.0.0m2 Nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 4621938 |====================================================== Core i5 7600K . 4233495 |================================================= Core i7 7700K . 4064839 |=============================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 3659 |======================= Core i5 7600K . 4705 |============================== Core i7 7700K . 8254 |===================================================== Core i7 6700K . 8893 |========================================================= TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3a Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 107.92 |======================== Core i5 7600K . 149.47 |================================= Core i7 7700K . 246.90 |======================================================= Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 2197.22 |======================================== Core i5 7600K . 2336.95 |=========================================== Core i7 7700K . 2789.62 |=================================================== Core i7 6700K . 2948.51 |====================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 209.82 |======================================================= Core i5 7600K . 129.65 |================================== Core i7 7700K . 92.70 |======================== Core i7 6700K . 95.64 |========================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 49.97 |======================================================== Core i5 7600K . 45.75 |=================================================== Core i7 7700K . 23.27 |========================== Core i7 6700K . 16.55 |=================== Stockfish 2014-11-26 Total Time ms < Lower Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 3216 |========================================================= Core i5 7600K . 2967 |===================================================== Core i7 7700K . 2790 |================================================= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 5.07 |========================================================= Core i5 7600K . 4.71 |===================================================== Core i7 7700K . 4.49 |================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 10.30 |======================================================== Core i5 7600K . 9.54 |==================================================== Core i7 7700K . 9.00 |================================================= Core i7 6700K . 8.50 |============================================== FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 10.61 |======================================================== Core i5 7600K . 7.84 |========================================= Core i7 7700K . 7.30 |======================================= Core i7 6700K . 7.32 |======================================= Minion 1.8 Benchmark: Graceful Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 54.97 |======================================================== Core i5 7600K . 50.59 |==================================================== Core i7 7700K . 47.88 |================================================= Minion 1.8 Benchmark: Solitaire Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 71.77 |======================================================== Core i5 7600K . 64.45 |================================================== Core i7 7700K . 60.81 |=============================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 368.07 |======================== Core i5 7600K . 686.83 |============================================= Core i7 7700K . 830.60 |======================================================= Core i7 6700K . 830.43 |======================================================= Caffe 2016-12-29 Build: CPU AlexNet Milli-Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 87787 |======================================================== Core i5 7600K . 68423 |============================================ Core i7 7700K . 64283 |========================================= Caffe 2016-12-29 Build: CPU Googlenet Milli-Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 447039 |======================================================= Core i5 7600K . 390946 |================================================ Core i7 7700K . 370780 |============================================== libjpeg-turbo tjbench 1.5.1 Test: Decompression Throughput Megapixels/sec > Higher Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 170.76 |================================================ Core i5 7600K . 183.06 |=================================================== Core i7 7700K . 195.65 |======================================================= Core i7 6700K . 194.93 |======================================================= Darktable 2.2.1 Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 29.02 |======================================================== Core i5 7600K . 19.07 |===================================== Core i7 7700K . 18.55 |==================================== Darktable 2.2.1 Test: Masskrug - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 18.31 |======================================================== Core i5 7600K . 11.91 |==================================== Core i7 7700K . 9.03 |============================ Darktable 2.2.1 Test: Server Room - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 13.07 |======================================================== Core i5 7600K . 8.76 |====================================== Core i7 7700K . 7.33 |=============================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 3212310.08 |============================================ Core i5 7600K . 3497529.75 |=============================================== Core i7 7700K . 3759645.33 |=================================================== Core i7 6700K . 3182410.50 |=========================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 2325719.83 |============================================= Core i5 7600K . 2512658.00 |================================================ Core i7 7700K . 2647990.42 |=================================================== Core i7 6700K . 2396224.17 |============================================== Blender 2.78a Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i3 7100 .. 1159.95 |====================================================== Core i5 7600K . 798.43 |===================================== Core i7 7700K . 549.63 |========================== Core i7 6700K . 251.71 |============ Darktable darktable-2.2.1-1.fc25 Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 6700K . 21.72 |======================================================== Darktable darktable-2.2.1-1.fc25 Test: Masskrug - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 6700K . 13.73 |======================================================== Darktable darktable-2.2.1-1.fc25 Test: Server Room - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 6700K . 7.95 |=========================================================