artnay Intel Core i7-4790K testing with a ASUS Z97I-PLUS and MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8192MB on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Samsung SSD 850 - Intel Core i7-4790K: Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Z97I-PLUS, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 4001GB HGST HDN724040AL + 128GB Samsung SSD 840 + 128GB OCZ VERTEX4, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (270/324MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Intel Connection + Broadcom BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-62-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 378.09, Vulkan: 1.0.37, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Intel Core i7-4790K: Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Z97I-PLUS, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 4001GB HGST HDN724040AL + 128GB Samsung SSD 840 + 128GB OCZ VERTEX4, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (1113/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Intel Connection + Broadcom BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-62-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 378.09, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.37, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070: Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Z97I-PLUS, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Samsung SSD 840 + 256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 4001GB HGST HDN724040AL + 128GB OCZ VERTEX4, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8192MB (1582/4006MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Intel Connection + Broadcom BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.10.0-38-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 387.12, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.56, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 - Intel Core i7-4790K . 4172.39 |============================== SQLite 3.8.10.2 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better Samsung SSD 850 - Intel Core i7-4790K . 109.36 |=============================== FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 - Intel Core i7-4790K . 73.03 |================================ Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 - Intel Core i7-4790K . 216.98 |=============================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 - Intel Core i7-4790K . 671.80 |=============================== Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 - Intel Core i7-4790K . 1377.56 |============================== Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 - Intel Core i7-4790K . 51.28 |================================ IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 - Intel Core i7-4790K . 9881.90 |============================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 - Intel Core i7-4790K . 376.79 |=============================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 - Intel Core i7-4790K . 1071.41 |============================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 - Intel Core i7-4790K . 545.80 |=============================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 - Intel Core i7-4790K . 3650.62 |============================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Samsung SSD 850 - Intel Core i7-4790K . 6.59 |================================= PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 - Intel Core i7-4790K . 8064 |================================= Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Samsung SSD 850 - Intel Core i7-4790K . 9.16 |================================ Intel Core i7-4790K ................... 9.33 |================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 - Intel Core i7-4790K . 32023.51 |=============================