stock Running pts/unigine-heaven-1.6.2 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Stock configuration: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST3500418AS + 250GB Samsung SSD 850 + 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKS-6, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (1113/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless OS: LinuxMint 18.2, Kernel: 4.4.0-87-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 3.4.6, Display Driver: NVIDIA 375.66, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST3500418AS + 250GB Samsung SSD 850 + 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKS-6, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (1113/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless OS: LinuxMint 18.2, Kernel: 4.4.0-87-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 3.4.6, Display Driver: NVIDIA 375.66, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST3500418AS + 250GB Samsung SSD 850 + 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKS-6, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (1113/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless OS: LinuxMint 18.2, Kernel: 4.4.0-87-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 3.4.6, Display Driver: NVIDIA 375.66, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 x264 2017-05-19 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Stock configuration . 141.36 |================================================= x264 OpenCL 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core . 161.15 |============================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core . 138.80 |============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core . 395.05 |============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core . 108.59 |============================================== AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core . 108.04 |============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core . 96.86 |=============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core . 391.70 |============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core . 598.34 |============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core . 779.75 |============================================== Unigine Heaven 4.0 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 44.90 |========================================== Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 50.49 |========================================== FFmpeg 3.3.3 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core . 7.87 |================================================