boot time Intel Core i9-9900K testing with a ASUS PRIME Z390-A (0506 BIOS) and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 8GB on Ubuntu 18.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i9-9900K - eVGA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070: Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (0506 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 8GB (1410/7000MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 18.10, Kernel: 4.19.0-041900-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 410.73, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Total ms < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9-9900K - eVGA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 . 25039 |=================== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Userspace ms < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9-9900K - eVGA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 . 21980 |=================== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Firmware ms < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9-9900K - eVGA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 . 5635 |==================== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Loader ms < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9-9900K - eVGA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 . 1119 |==================== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Kernel ms < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9-9900K - eVGA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 . 3059 |====================