Core i9 7960X Linux 5.0 Kernel Benchmarks Linux 4.12 to Linux 5.0 kernel benchmarks on an Intel Core i9 7960X. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel. ,,"Linux 5.0 Git","Linux 4.20","Linux 4.19","Linux 4.18","Linux 4.17","Linux 4.16","Linux 4.15","Linux 4.14","Linux 4.13","Linux 4.12" Processor,,Intel Core i9-7960X @ 4.40GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads),Intel Core i9-7960X @ 4.40GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads),Intel Core i9-7960X @ 4.40GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads),Intel Core i9-7960X @ 4.40GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads),Intel Core i9-7960X @ 4.40GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads),Intel Core i9-7960X @ 4.40GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads),Intel Core i9-7960X @ 4.40GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads),Intel Core i9-7960X @ 4.40GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads),Intel Core i9-7960X @ 4.40GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads),Intel Core i9-7960X @ 4.40GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads) Motherboard,,MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) v1.0 (1.A0 BIOS),MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) v1.0 (1.A0 BIOS),MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) v1.0 (1.A0 BIOS),MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) v1.0 (1.A0 BIOS),MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) v1.0 (1.A0 BIOS),MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) v1.0 (1.A0 BIOS),MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) v1.0 (1.A0 BIOS),MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) v1.0 (1.A0 BIOS),MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) v1.0 (1.A0 BIOS),MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) v1.0 (1.A0 BIOS) Chipset,,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Memory,,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB Disk,,256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8,256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8,256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8,256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8,256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8,256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8,256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8,256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8,256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8,256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8 Graphics,,Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 550/550X 2GB (1206/1750MHz),Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 550/550X 2GB (1206/1750MHz),Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 550/550X 2GB (1206/1750MHz),Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 550/550X 2GB (1206/1750MHz),Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 550/550X 2GB (1206/1750MHz),Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 550/550X 2GB (1206/1750MHz),Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 550/550X 2GB (1206/1750MHz),Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 550/550X 2GB (1206/1750MHz),Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 550/550X 2GB (1206/1750MHz),Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 550/550X 2GB (1206/1750MHz) Audio,,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220 Monitor,,ASUS VP28U,ASUS VP28U,ASUS VP28U,ASUS VP28U,ASUS VP28U,ASUS VP28U,ASUS VP28U,ASUS VP28U,ASUS VP28U,ASUS VP28U Network,,Intel I219-V + Intel I211,Intel I219-V + Intel I211,Intel I219-V + Intel I211,Intel I219-V + Intel I211,Intel I219-V + Intel I211,Intel I219-V + Intel I211,Intel I219-V + Intel I211,Intel I219-V + Intel I211,Intel I219-V + Intel I211,Intel I219-V + Intel I211 OS,,Ubuntu 18.10,Ubuntu 18.10,Ubuntu 18.10,Ubuntu 18.10,Ubuntu 18.10,Ubuntu 18.10,Ubuntu 18.10,Ubuntu 18.10,Ubuntu 18.10,Ubuntu 18.10 Kernel,,5.0.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20190217,4.20.0-042000-generic (x86_64),4.19.0-041900-generic (x86_64),4.18.0-041800-generic (x86_64),4.17.0-041700-generic (x86_64),4.16.0-041600-generic (x86_64),4.15.0-041500-generic (x86_64),4.14.0-041400-generic (x86_64),4.13.0-041300-generic (x86_64),4.12.0-041200-generic (x86_64) Desktop,,GNOME Shell 3.30.1,GNOME Shell 3.30.1,GNOME Shell 3.30.1,GNOME Shell 3.30.1,GNOME Shell 3.30.1,GNOME Shell 3.30.1,GNOME Shell 3.30.1,GNOME Shell 3.30.1,GNOME Shell 3.30.1,GNOME Shell 3.30.1 Display Server,,X Server 1.20.1,X Server 1.20.1,X Server 1.20.1,X Server 1.20.1,X Server 1.20.1,X Server 1.20.1,X Server 1.20.1,X Server 1.20.1,X Server 1.20.1,X Server 1.20.1 Display Driver,,modesetting 1.20.1,modesetting 1.20.1,modesetting 1.20.1,modesetting 1.20.1,modesetting 1.20.1,modesetting 1.20.1,modesetting 1.20.1,modesetting 1.20.1,modesetting 1.20.1,modesetting 1.20.1 OpenGL,,4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0),4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0),4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0),4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0),4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0),4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0),4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0),4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0),4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0),4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0) Compiler,,GCC 8.2.0,GCC 8.2.0,GCC 8.2.0,GCC 8.2.0,GCC 8.2.0,GCC 8.2.0,GCC 8.2.0,GCC 8.2.0,GCC 8.2.0,GCC 8.2.0 File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160 ,,"Linux 5.0 Git","Linux 4.20","Linux 4.19","Linux 4.18","Linux 4.17","Linux 4.16","Linux 4.15","Linux 4.14","Linux 4.13","Linux 4.12" "Blender - Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only (sec)",LIB,123,123,123,123,123,123,123,123,124,119 "Blender - Blend File: Barbershop - Compute: CPU-Only (sec)",LIB,578,578,578,578,578,578,579,578,578,577 "BlogBench - Test: Read (Final Score)",HIB,1335880,1239923,1380708,1413307,1281157,1368724,1433530,1435431,1277929,1441338 "BlogBench - Test: Write (Final Score)",HIB,7437,7716,7531,7614,7772,7357,7848,8076,8340,7450 "BRL-CAD - VGR Performance Metric (VGR Performance Metric)",HIB,191503,189860,189338,189662,191202,189766,190789,195636,195417,197740 "Compile Bench - Test: Compile (MB/s)",HIB,855,854,847,855,843,844,849,937,937,934 "Compile Bench - Test: Initial Create (MB/s)",HIB,627,625,555,586,613,549,518,643,682,626 "Cryptsetup - PBKDF2-whirlpool (Iterations/sec)",HIB,983042,982426,984270,983042,983045,952595,938463,965007,957561,951646 "Cryptsetup - PBKDF2-sha512 (Iterations/sec)",HIB,1677741,1681349,1668836,1686718,1679542,1593588,1587255,1578102,1581770,1609799 "Cryptsetup - PBKDF2-whirlpool (Iterations/sec)",HIB,,982426,979372,984270,981821,937905,939024,936410,930854,960188 "ctx_clock - Context Switch Time (Clocks)",LIB,403,407,422,422,418,459,449,115,119,107 "DaCapo Benchmark - Java Test: H2 (msec)",LIB,3136,2982,3069,3008,3090,3054,3011,2946,2901,3028 "DaCapo Benchmark - Java Test: Jython (msec)",LIB,3449,3422,3441,3458,3451,3427,3427,3270,3435,3257 "DaCapo Benchmark - Java Test: Tradesoap (msec)",LIB,3235,3222,3217,3282,3272,3270,3232,3375,3170,3103 "DaCapo Benchmark - Java Test: Tradebeans (msec)",LIB,3068,3085,3065,3035,3040,3006,3004,2836,2852,2986 "Darktable - Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-only (sec)",LIB,8.05,8.05,8.05,8.05,8.07,8.07,8.08,8.20,7.76,8.18 "Darktable - Test: Masskrug - Acceleration: CPU-only (sec)",LIB,4.03,4.01,4.03,4.02,4.03,4.11,4.11,3.93,4.13,4.14 "Darktable - Test: Server Rack - Acceleration: CPU-only (sec)",LIB,0.12,0.13,0.12,0.13,0.12,0.12,0.12,0.11,0.12,0.11 "Darktable - Test: Server Room - Acceleration: CPU-only (sec)",LIB,2.63,2.63,2.63,2.62,2.64,2.64,2.64,2.54,2.54,2.73 "dav1d - Video Input: Summer Nature 4K (sec)",LIB,21.77,21.77,21.72,21.72,21.74,21.89,21.84,21.97,21.46,21.97 "dav1d - Video Input: Summer Nature 1080p (sec)",LIB,7.65,7.66,7.66,7.65,7.64,7.70,7.68,7.68,7.65,7.67 "ebizzy - (Records/s)",HIB,478733,482232,479383,492589,458116,489375,470012,469816,478703,457858 "FS-Mark - Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads (Files/s)",HIB,120,109,101,109,115,116,116,121,118,111 "FS-Mark - Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size (Files/s)",HIB,67.65,68.24,66.62,68.77,66.93,70.25,68.88,68.49,68.84,68.56 "GIMP - Test: resize (sec)",LIB,9.20,9.12,9.21,9.25,9.18,9.50,9.47,9.00,9.04,9.00 "GIMP - Test: rotate (sec)",LIB,13.62,13.57,13.62,13.61,13.60,13.60,13.64,13.06,12.98,12.55 "GIMP - Test: auto-levels (sec)",LIB,15.20,15.05,15.13,15.12,15.07,15.60,15.59,14.98,14.90,14.78 "GIMP - Test: unsharp-mask (sec)",LIB,18.96,18.92,19.13,18.96,18.92,19.73,19.70,18.77,18.89,18.81 "GNU Octave Benchmark - (sec)",LIB,17.41,17.55,17.81,17.51,17.51,17.94,17.84,17.04,16.77,12.28 "Hackbench - Count: 32 - Type: Process (sec)",LIB,47.28,48.03,48.21,49.07,49.06,46.37,45.78,33.55,33.40,33.91 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,3041,3043,3054,3043,3056,2924,2943,2822,2869,2859 "IndigoBench - Scene: Bedroom (M samples/s)",HIB,2.30,2.30,2.30,2.30,2.30,2.31,2.31,2.31,2.31,2.33 "IndigoBench - Scene: Supercar (M samples/s)",HIB,5.51,5.48,5.50,5.49,5.50,5.50,5.50,5.45,5.45,5.72 "LeelaChessZero - Backend: BLAS (Nodes/s)",HIB,273,271,272,272,273,267,269,283,284,279 "LuaJIT - Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,1593,1592,1592,1591,1593,1529,1544,1517,1612,1568 "NAMD - ATPase Simulation - 327,506 Atoms (days/ns)",LIB,1.06771,1.06267,1.06557,1.06739,1.06732,1.06728,1.06693,1.07717,1.06390,1.02607 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.C (Mop/s)",HIB,628,626,626,622,627,621,615,653,654,654 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,5181,5352,5256,5204,5311,5199,5172,5449,5404,6441 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.C (Mop/s)",HIB,10654,10655,10655,10657,10669,10344,9912,11091,11108,11085 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,434,434,434,433,435,434,433,452,452,452 "Node.js Express HTTP Load Test - (Reqs/sec)",HIB,10361,10312,10443,10624,10545,10498,10657,11761,11599,11545 "Node.js Octane Benchmark - (Score)",HIB,45881,46166,45808,45929,45868,44320,43277,39198,45257,41724 "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,4404,4419,4413,4408,4401,4417,4424,4602,4609,4597 "Optcarrot - Optimized Benchmark (FPS)",HIB,136,137,136,138,137,131,129,136,134,135 "OSBench - Test: Create Files (us/Event)",LIB,12.35,12.23,12.33,12.28,12.32,12.52,12.72,10.42,10.44,10.80 "OSBench - Test: Create Threads (us/Event)",LIB,13.40,13.49,13.36,16.25,16.22,15.04,15.27,11.33,9.87,10.48 "OSBench - Test: Launch Programs (us/Event)",LIB,35.55,34.96,34.26,35.48,35.23,34.30,32.57,29.65,28.69,29.02 "OSBench - Test: Create Processes (us/Event)",LIB,29.31,29.48,29.19,29.09,29.16,28.98,28.79,23.57,23.05,22.57 "OSBench - Test: Memory Allocations (Ns/Event)",LIB,71.79,71.62,72.08,71.53,71.63,72.69,72.14,65.97,65.82,67.08 "Parboil - Test: OpenMP LBM (sec)",LIB,70.74,70.78,70.83,71.06,71.05,71.10,71.08,71.37,71.31,70.80 "Parboil - Test: OpenMP CUTCP (sec)",LIB,2.51,2.51,2.49,2.51,2.49,2.50,2.50,2.40,2.39,2.42 "Parboil - Test: OpenMP Stencil (sec)",LIB,7.86,7.74,7.80,7.41,7.43,7.45,7.47,7.11,7.76,7.28 "PHPBench - PHP Benchmark Suite (Score)",HIB,703748,702192,705017,702188,703272,673483,668188,648147,657535,687767 "PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only (TPS)",HIB,471254,476537,484720,486733,481641,481499,483791,514126,527596,513316 "PyBench - Total For Average Test Times (Milliseconds)",LIB,947,950,949,955,952,997,998,955,960,953 "Rodinia - Test: OpenMP LavaMD (sec)",LIB,21.32,21.36,21.50,21.45,21.35,21.30,21.76,21.49,21.36,21.43 "Rodinia - Test: OpenMP CFD Solver (sec)",LIB,12.24,12.28,12.33,12.31,12.29,12.33,12.40,12.22,12.29,12.28 "Rust Mandelbrot - Time To Complete Serial/Parallel Mandelbrot (sec)",LIB,44.12,44.27,44.15,44.14,44.08,45.74,45.84,47.14,46.66,46.20 "Rust Prime Benchmark - Prime Number Test To 200,000,000 (sec)",LIB,6.69,6.69,6.69,6.69,6.68,6.68,6.69,6.64,6.75,6.64 "Schbench - Message Threads: 8 - Workers Per Message Thread: 4 (usec, 99.9th Latency Percentile)",LIB,110,108,108,107,106,104,105,100,101,101 "Sockperf - Test: Throughput (Messages/sec)",HIB,464915,464981,585818,614978,627930,643361,594603,789092,757001,774467 "Sockperf - Test: Latency Ping Pong (usec)",LIB,3.96,3.88,4.16,4.21,4.01,4.03,4.23,3.51,3.38,3.60 "Sockperf - Test: Latency Under Load (usec)",LIB,31.61,26.39,32.45,33.94,32.19,32.68,31.32,29.24,29.84,29.52 "SQLite - Timed SQLite Insertions (sec)",LIB,12.51,16.61,15.06,14.72,14.75,15.77,16.00,14.26,14.00,13.95 "Stress-NG - Test: Forking (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,92840,93872,97350,90244,91170,91597,92400,96693,103143,96634 "Stress-NG - Test: Semaphores (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,3116617,2965774,3124139,3124404,3029755,3125260,3170972,3149801,3021911,3544177 "Stress-NG - Test: Socket Activity (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,15636,15252,10545,10849,10984,10957,10375,14206,15660,16352 "Stress-NG - Test: Context Switching (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,19272733,19010699,15525058,15143645,15109550,13624004,13704038,9280054,15048186,2313307 "Stress-NG - Test: System V Message Passing (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,7796583,8158439,8250516,8224598,7989215,10055836,8120291,9809250,14618292,8222695 "SVT-HEVC - 1080p 8-bit YUV To HEVC Video Encode (FPS)",HIB,295,295,296,296,295,294,296,307,306,299 "SVT-VP9 - 1080p 8-bit YUV To VP9 Video Encode (FPS)",HIB,299,299,299,297,300,299,298,313,295,317 "Systemd Total Boot Time - Test: Kernel (ms)",LIB,5278,5330,5615,5340,5780,2298,2433,2711,5053,7554 "Systemd Total Boot Time - Test: Firmware (ms)",LIB,26407,26381,26384,26454,26395,26383,26636,26416,26452,26400 "Tesseract - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 (FPS)",HIB,70.92,71.22,71.23,71.10,71.35,70.97,70.37,72.42,72.16,72.31 "Tesseract OCR - Time To OCR 7 Images (sec)",LIB,26.59,26.31,26.34,26.37,26.35,26.77,26.75,27.42,26.73,26.89 "Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,4.28,4.33,4.32,4.35,4.32,4.46,4.42,4.41,4.21,4.42 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,45.27,44.80,44.91,44.94,44.83,44.66,45.05,44.17,43.95,43.41 "Timed LLVM Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,250,252,251,249,247,240,248,233,236,246 "Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,2.21,2.22,2.29,2.21,2.17,2.20,2.20,2.37,2.07,2.11 "TTSIOD 3D Renderer - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping (FPS)",HIB,658,661,660,660,661,660,661,660,663,672 "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,135,134,133,133,133,132,132,138,137,137 "x265 - H.265 1080p Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,51.51,51.23,51.33,51.31,51.15,51.04,50.81,50.84,50.90,51.49 "Xonotic - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultimate (FPS)",HIB,64.59,64.69,64.88,64.47,64.52,64.44,64.08,66.80,66.54,66.51 "XZ Compression - Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 9 (sec)",LIB,85.27,85.55,85.51,84.98,85.50,84.58,85.18,86.20,86.30,85.07 "Zstd Compression - Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 (sec)",LIB,10.61,10.60,10.58,10.53,10.57,10.53,10.59,10.47,10.56,10.45