Benchmarks of the Intel Core i7 3960X "Sandy Bridge" Extreme Edition processor under Linux. Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel. The Core i7 3960X has a base frequency of 3.3GHz, Turbo Boost of 3.9GHz, six physical cores plus Hyper Threading, etc.
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Intel Core i7 3960X Extreme On Linux
Benchmarks of the Intel Core i7 3960X "Sandy Bridge" Extreme Edition processor under Linux. Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel. The Core i7 3960X has a base frequency of 3.3GHz, Turbo Boost of 3.9GHz, six physical cores plus Hyper Threading, etc.
,,"Fusion A8-3850","FX-8150","Core i7 870","Core i7 920","Core i7 970","Core i7 990X","Core i5 2400S","Core i5 2500K","Core i7 3960X","Core i7 3960X @ 4.5GHz","Core i7 3820, Tgui","Core i7 3820 @ 4.5GHz, Tgui","Core i7 3820 @ 4.5GHz, Tgui DRAM1","Core i7 3820, Tgui DRAM1","Core i7 4930k @ 4.4GHz","Ryzen 1700"
Processor,,AMD A8-3850 APU with Radeon HD @ 2.90GHz (4 Cores),AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.61GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core 870 @ 2.67GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7 970 @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7 990X @ 3.47GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i5-2400S @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3820 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-3820 @ 5.90GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-3820 @ 5.90GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-3820 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-4930K @ 4.20GHz (12 Cores),AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core @ 3.00GHz (16 Cores)
Motherboard,,SAPPHIRE Pure Platinum A75,ASUS Crosshair V Formula,ECS P55H-A v1.0,MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0,MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0,MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0,ASRock Z68 Pro3,ASRock Z68 Pro3,Intel DX79SI,Intel DX79SI,Gigabyte X79-UD3,Gigabyte X79-UD3,Gigabyte X79-UD3,Gigabyte X79-UD3,Gigabyte X79-UD3,ASRock X370 Gaming-ITX/ac
Chipset,,AMD Family 12h Root Complex,ATI RD890,Intel Core DMI,Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R,Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R,Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,Intel Sandy DMI2,Intel Sandy DMI2,Intel Sandy DMI2,Intel Sandy DMI2,Intel Sandy DMI2,Intel Sandy DMI2,Intel Ivytown DMI2,AMD Device 1450
Memory,,16384MB,16384MB,8192MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,2 x 16384 MB DDR4-2134MHz
Disk,,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,60GB SSD G2 64 + 2 x 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKS-0 + 750GB Western Digital WD7500AAKS-2,60GB SSD G2 64 + 2 x 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKS-0 + 750GB Western Digital WD7500AAKS-2,60GB SSD G2 64 + 2 x 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKS-0 + 750GB Western Digital WD7500AAKS-2,60GB SSD G2 64 + 2 x 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKS-0 + 750GB Western Digital WD7500AAKS-2,256GB M4-CT256M4SSD2 + 4 x 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARX-00P + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EZRX-00D,438GB
Graphics,,AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz),AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz),AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz),AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz),AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz),AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz),AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz),AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz),AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB,AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB,NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE 1024MB (648/1700MHz),NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE 1024MB (648/1700MHz),NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE 1024MB (648/1700MHz),NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE 1024MB (648/1700MHz),NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 1024MB (607/1603MHz),NVIDIA Device 1d01
Audio,,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC1200,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC898,Realtek ALC898,Realtek ALC898,Realtek ALC898,Realtek ALC898,NVIDIA Device 0fb8
Monitor,,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,Acer P243W,VA2431,VA2431,VA2431,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,,,,,,
Network,,Marvell Yukon Optima 88E8059,Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection,Intel I211 Gigabit Connection + Intel Wireless 7265
OS,,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 16.04
Kernel,,3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-3-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-17-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-17-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-17-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-17-generic (x86_64),3.5.0-44-generic (x86_64),4.10.0-35-generic (x86_64)
Desktop,,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 4.24.0,Unity 2D 5.4.0,Unity 2D 5.4.0,Unity 2D 5.4.0,Unity 2D 5.4.0,Unity 5.20.0,
Display Server,,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.11.3,
Display Driver,,fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11,fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11,fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11,fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11,fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11,fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11,fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11,fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11,fglrx 8.91.4,fglrx 8.91.4,NVIDIA 295.20,NVIDIA 295.20,NVIDIA 295.20,NVIDIA 295.20,NVIDIA 319.60,
OpenGL,,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.1.11251,4.2.0 NVIDIA 295.20,4.2.0 NVIDIA 295.20,4.2.0 NVIDIA 295.20,4.2.0 NVIDIA 295.20,4.3.0,
Compiler,,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6 + CUDA 5.0,GCC 5.4.0 20160609
File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4
Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080
,,"Fusion A8-3850","FX-8150","Core i7 870","Core i7 920","Core i7 970","Core i7 990X","Core i5 2400S","Core i5 2500K","Core i7 3960X","Core i7 3960X @ 4.5GHz","Core i7 3820, Tgui","Core i7 3820 @ 4.5GHz, Tgui","Core i7 3820 @ 4.5GHz, Tgui DRAM1","Core i7 3820, Tgui DRAM1","Core i7 4930k @ 4.4GHz","Ryzen 1700"
"7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,9392,17915,14458,13392,24333,25535,10244,12802,28433,33479,19560,21337,23110,19970,31545,33895
"C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,105.04,51.05,65.13,66.95,38.66,35.70,69.35,53.28,35.27,28.71,51.98,42.35,41.95,52.08,26.96,9.33
"CLOMP - Static OMP Speedup (Speedup)",HIB,3.00,2.46,4.81,5.19,5.50,5.56,2.74,3.19,5.38,5.43,5.13,5.24,5.22,5.13,5.83,5.34
"FFmpeg - AVI To NTSC VCD (sec)",LIB,29.19,9.98,22.47,20.10,22.03,22.09,16.32,16.00,22.77,20.74,11.51,6.60,6.50,10.81,12.90,
"FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,9.13,7.85,8.10,9.79,8.27,7.68,6.94,6.19,5.88,5.24,6.12,5.24,5.46,6.19,5.59,4.65
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,117,165,151,127,159,171,142,165,197,229,181,215,215,180,190,
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Blur (Iterations/min)",HIB,73,100,105,90,118,126,81,97,142,166,126,148,150,127,165,
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,44,68,68,60,87,92,41,51,98,117,79,96,95,80,120,
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,99,133,130,110,143,153,107,128,176,206,157,187,188,157,206,
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,47,65,68,59,88,94,38,48,103,122,81,97,97,81,122,
"Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,428.85,374.17,1108.12,950.14,1137.82,1204.00,1254.82,1413.80,1440.31,1570.07,1347.06,1699.97,1751.07,1402.68,1636.08,1060.10
"John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,3047000,4298667,3872000,3259333,3837000,4129000,4513333,5060667,5342000,6127667,4761833,5626500,5826000,4650500,5615333,7059333
"John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,13500,15381,15822,13215,15620,16838,12815,14389,15195,17509,14778,17539,17526,14718,,
"John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,886,1002,983,820,970,1046,817,916,966,1114,939,1116,1113,939,,
"LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,23.45,19.56,17.68,21.34,18.05,16.75,16.01,14.27,13.53,11.85,14.08,11.99,12.03,14.36,12.28,11.93
"Minion - Benchmark: Bibd (sec)",LIB,366.35,167.25,161.35,188.13,159.13,149.71,135.79,121.11,121.10,106.23,124.89,104.38,105.31,125.31,104.66,
"Minion - Benchmark: Graceful (sec)",LIB,122.04,86.34,87.56,104.05,86.72,81.59,78.21,70.09,69.59,60.66,71.57,60.11,60.43,71.87,61.33,
"Minion - Benchmark: Quasigroup (sec)",LIB,237.11,198.52,203.05,232.71,194.96,182.06,178.03,157.50,156.49,136.06,159.31,133.85,133.99,159.49,137.89,
"Minion - Benchmark: Solitaire (sec)",LIB,384.00,160.48,161.33,188.14,159.43,150.41,124.86,111.31,115.68,99.65,115.83,97.17,97.30,115.91,99.24,
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: BT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,7496.09,11152.49,7855.60,8518.29,13189.01,13758.89,9566.81,11946.95,18413.34,22115.01,11584.17,13029.51,17278.55,14504.92,21627.61,25523.50
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: CG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,1086.34,2495.38,1323.67,1608.07,2247.61,2272.01,2430.27,2786.72,3518.99,3955.22,2014.06,2053.26,2977.23,2670.08,3688.93,4668.02
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s)",HIB,84.16,163.08,172.10,160.43,281.37,296.10,102.44,133.90,333.11,407.96,237.73,288.82,291.01,237.62,441.65,506.20
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.B (Mop/s)",HIB,3876.36,6410.04,3132.82,3161.80,4609.44,4622.49,4819.31,6013.74,10124.84,12113.11,5777.25,6104.76,9101.15,7640.52,12287.65,14256.20
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: IS.C (Mop/s)",HIB,96.31,107.33,109.42,115.80,143.33,152.26,163.66,182.66,188.60,216.23,185.16,217.56,218.23,185.34,228.03,106.74
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,6085.41,11631.05,7465.63,8202.50,12560.50,12594.63,8174.35,10228.12,17353.46,20556.37,11315.56,12518.79,16495.35,13790.30,20528.53,26556.15
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,3248.07,4369.39,2303.98,3489.41,4711.02,4730.60,5795.93,6318.83,10576.23,11353.19,3668.97,3551.39,10424.55,8904.80,10494.58,7957.18
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,3493.40,5378.85,2510.55,3387.24,5105.15,5143.75,5435.51,6179.97,10076.13,11321.08,4278.28,4347.29,9523.46,8299.85,10180.38,10839.76
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,20.28,40.14,24.57,29.04,54.49,56.22,31.33,36.98,81.58,94.66,39.12,41.73,67.58,57.36,80.81,97.44
"Nexuiz - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On (FPS)",HIB,85.55,116.74,119.12,103.27,123.62,132.02,123.11,135.89,144.79,150.51,149.66,155.60,155.53,150.32,157.59,
"OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,53.28,68.50,54.20,45.45,53.60,57.93,77.65,86.88,92.10,105.88,85.24,101.50,103.60,85.31,103.36,
"Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,211,104,141,147,82,76,199,150,67,54,94,76,76,94,46,43
"Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,20.73,13.52,24.44,21.95,14.67,13.83,18.74,14.56,8.77,7.12,13.12,13.26,8.75,10.62,8.56,
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,150.98,89.17,104.58,113.43,65.54,62.64,134.10,105.01,58.93,49.56,83.02,69.28,67.90,82.69,49.13,
"Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,32.81,26.07,23.83,27.97,23.59,21.92,21.90,19.59,18.26,15.87,18.91,16.01,15.99,19.03,16.38,
"Timed PHP Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,52.59,30.39,33.02,35.95,22.83,21.83,39.71,32.65,20.60,17.58,,,,,16.90,17.82
"TSCP - AI Chess Performance (Nodes/s)",HIB,244877,314371,333118,288154,340617,366501,472953,531438,560988,645254,542355,646471,648127,543745,654604,
"TTSIOD 3D Renderer - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping (FPS)",HIB,57.39,128.30,116.60,103.09,157.93,166.57,88.30,111.59,201.77,222.51,127.89,145.68,147.79,129.96,169.48,75.14
"VP8 libvpx Encoding - vpxenc (FPS)",HIB,14.42,20.54,18.29,16.86,21.28,22.49,21.98,27.86,26.68,32.54,25.85,31.53,30.90,25.50,27.75,
"Warsow - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,223.70,353.92,292.83,243.80,290.50,307.27,323.97,355.73,355.17,379.67,,,,,,
"x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,63.23,135.76,105.70,95.77,160.35,170.36,77.13,96.53,190.84,223.28,137.07,162.83,163.14,139.27,192.29,
"Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,146.24,232.40,202.44,178.81,202.77,209.67,212.43,218.17,225.03,225.61,128.83,129.51,129.36,129.19,125.76,