RyzenVSTuxedo Intel Core i7-6900K testing with a ASUS X99-A II and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB on Arch Linux via the Phoronix Test Suite. Run1: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core @ 3.85GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B350M-A, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 500GB Samsung SSD 750 + Samsung SSD 960 EVO 250GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4096MB (1290/3504MHz), Audio: NVIDIA GP107GL HD Audio, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.12.13-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Driver: NVIDIA 384.69, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.49, Compiler: GCC 7.2.0 + Clang 5.0.0 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Run2: Processor: Intel Core i7-7820HK @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: TUXEDO P65xHP, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 2 x 250GB Samsung SSD 850 + Samsung SSD 960 EVO 250GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6144MB (1404/4006MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 OS: ManjaroLinux 17.0.5, Kernel: 4.13.2-1-MANJARO (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 375.82, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.24, Compiler: GCC 7.2.0 + Clang 4.0.1 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Run3: Processor: Intel Core i7-6900K @ 4.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS X99-A II, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v4/Xeon, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: 500GB Samsung SSD 850 + 480GB SanDisk SDSSDHII + 2 x Samsung SSD 950 PRO 512GB, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB (1265/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 4.12.13-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Driver: NVIDIA 384.69, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.49, Compiler: GCC 7.2.0 + Clang 5.0.0 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Run1 . 75.99 |====================================== Run2 . 128.24 |================================================================ Run3 . 63.85 |================================