4.10.0-38-generic + Ubuntu 16.04 Tests Various open-source benchmarks by the Phoronix Test Suite v5.2.1 (Khanino). Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: HP 212B v1.01, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 2 x 16384 MB DDR4-2133MHz Samsung, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST500DM002-1SB10, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro M4000 8192MB (135/324MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC221, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.10.0-38-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.5, Display Server: X Server 1.19.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 381.22, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + Clang 3.8.0-2ubuntu4 + CUDA 7.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.13 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 . 132.99 |=============================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 . 23.68 |================================================ dcraw RAW To PPM Image Conversion Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 . 51.68 |================================================ LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.5 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 . 12.21 |================================================ Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Context Switching Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 . 2501068.38 |===========================================