aw51tw20180825 Intel Core i7-6900K testing with a Alienware 09G12C (A12 BIOS) and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8192MB on openSUSE Tumbleweed 20180827 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i7-6900K: Processor: Intel Core i7-6900K @ 4.10GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: Alienware 09G12C (A12 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v4/Xeon, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: 500GB Samsung SSD 860 + 1050GB Crucial_CT1050MX + 3 x 3001GB Western Digital WD30EFRX-68E, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8192MB (1657/5005MHz), Audio: Creative CA0132, Monitor: U2868, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit + Intel Wireless 7260 OS: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20180827, Kernel: 4.18.5-1-default (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.3, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 390.77, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Compiler: GCC 8.2.1 20180817 [gcc-8-branch revision 263612], File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-6900K . 47807 |================================================== x265 2.8 H.265 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-6900K . 36.25 |================================================== x264 2018-07-28 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-6900K . 74.00 |================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.18 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-6900K . 80.78 |================================================== OpenSSL 1.1.0f RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-6900K . 2279.00 |================================================ FFmpeg 4.0.2 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-6900K . 6.14 |=================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time - 4K, 16 Rays Per Pixel Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-6900K . 95.06 |================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-6900K . 2371.53 |================================================