Core i7 5960X Intel Core i7-5960X testing with a Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF (F24c BIOS) and NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 124MB on Debian 9.5 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i7-5960X: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF (F24c BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 4 x 4096 MB DDR4-2800MHz CMK16GX4M4A2666C16, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 124MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel I218-V OS: Debian 9.5, Kernel: 4.18.0-2-amd64 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: ext4 SVT-AV1 2019-02-03 1080p 8-bit YUV To AV1 Video Encode Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 1.06 |=================================================== NAMD 2.13b1 ATPase Simulation - 327,506 Atoms days/ns < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 2.54989 |================================================ x265 3.0 H.265 1080p Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 6.27 |=================================================== XZ Compression 5.2.4 Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 9 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 70.40 |================================================== PyBench 2018-02-16 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 1632 |=================================================== LuaJIT 2.1-git Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 1335.09 |================================================ Zstd Compression 1.3.4 Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 16.28 |================================================== SVT-HEVC 2019-02-03 1080p 8-bit YUV To HEVC Video Encode Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 146.57 |================================================= Optcarrot Optimized Benchmark FPS > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 103.94 |================================================= LuaJIT 2.1-git Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 1589.09 |================================================ LuaJIT 2.1-git Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 3004.47 |================================================ LuaJIT 2.1-git Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 1208.12 |================================================ LuaJIT 2.1-git Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 402.63 |================================================= LuaJIT 2.1-git Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 471.12 |=================================================