core i7 5960x linux 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 Core-Latency Average Latency Between CPU Cores ns < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 164.41 |================================================= CP2K Molecular Dynamics 6.1 Fayalite-FIST Data Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 768.66 |================================================= GROMACS 2018.3 Water Benchmark Ns Per Day > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 0.72 |=================================================== Renaissance 0.9.0 Test: Scala Dotty ms < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 6759.57 |================================================ Renaissance 0.9.0 Test: Twitter Finagle ms < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 5246.81 |================================================ Renaissance 0.9.0 Test: Apache Spark ALS ms < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 5252.06 |================================================ Renaissance 0.9.0 Test: Apache Spark Bayes ms < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 6722.60 |================================================ Renaissance 0.9.0 Test: Savina Reactors.IO ms < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 16300.42 |=============================================== Renaissance 0.9.0 Test: Apache Spark PageRank ms < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 26724.10 |=============================================== Renaissance 0.9.0 Test: In-Memory Database Shootout ms < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 6163.27 |================================================ Renaissance 0.9.0 Test: Akka Unbalanced Cobwebbed Tree ms < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 9871.03 |================================================ SVT-AV1 0.5 1080p 8-bit YUV To AV1 Video Encode Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 24.15 |================================================== VP9 libvpx Encoding 1.8.0 vpxenc VP9 1080p Video Encode Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 143.95 |=================================================