baremetal Intel Core i3-6300 testing with a ASUS PRIME H270-PLUS (1205 BIOS) and Intel HD 530 on Ubuntu 18.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. bionic: Processor: Intel Core i3-6300 @ 3.80GHz (2 Cores / 4 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME H270-PLUS (1205 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 + H270, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST9500325AS + 2GB Store n Go Drive, Graphics: Intel HD 530 (1150MHz), Monitor: PLG2488H, Network: Intel 82572EI + Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-66-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.4.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 bionic-hwe: Processor: Intel Core i3-6300 @ 3.80GHz (2 Cores / 4 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME H270-PLUS (1205 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 + H270, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST9500325AS + 2GB Store n Go Drive, Graphics: Intel HD 530 (1150MHz), Monitor: PLG2488H, Network: Intel 82572EI + Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 5.0.0-32-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.4.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 boinic-hwe-mitigations=off: Processor: Intel Core i3-6300 @ 3.80GHz (2 Cores / 4 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME H270-PLUS (1205 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 + H270, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST9500325AS + 2GB Store n Go Drive, Graphics: Intel HD 530 (1150MHz), Monitor: PLG2488H, Network: Intel 82572EI + Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 5.0.0-32-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.4.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Timed GCC Compilation 8.2 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better bionic . 2381.84 |============================================================= NAMD 2.13b1 ATPase Simulation - 327,506 Atoms days/ns < Lower Is Better bionic . 7.38215 |============================================================= Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better bionic . 341.25 |============================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.18 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better bionic . 294.53 |============================================================== Radiance Benchmark 5.0 Test: Serial Seconds < Lower Is Better bionic . 846.14 |============================================================== asmFish 2018-07-23 1024 Hash Memory, 26 Depth Nodes/second > Higher Is Better bionic . 5906841 |============================================================= POV-Ray 3.7.0.7 Trace Time Seconds < Lower Is Better bionic . 214.14 |============================================================== Stockfish 9 Total Time Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better bionic . 5501085 |============================================================= Radiance Benchmark 5.0 Test: SMP Parallel Seconds < Lower Is Better bionic . 430.58 |============================================================== x264 2018-09-25 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better bionic . 22.01 |=============================================================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better bionic . 85.30 |=============================================================== x265 3.0 H.265 1080p Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better bionic . 13.12 |=============================================================== 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better bionic . 12811 |=============================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better bionic ..................... 552.44 |========================================== bionic-hwe ................. 553.34 |========================================== boinic-hwe-mitigations=off . 553.69 |========================================== OpenSSL 1.1.1 RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better bionic . 566.40 |============================================================== Sysbench 2018-07-28 Test: CPU Events Per Second > Higher Is Better bionic . 4248.07 |============================================================= ctx_clock Context Switch Time Clocks < Lower Is Better bionic . 1248 |================================================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better bionic ..................... 1033.60 |========================================= bionic-hwe ................. 1041.19 |========================================= boinic-hwe-mitigations=off . 1042.74 |========================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better bionic ..................... 798.62 |========================================== bionic-hwe ................. 807.42 |========================================== boinic-hwe-mitigations=off . 807.53 |========================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better bionic ..................... 651.16 |========================================= bionic-hwe ................. 662.02 |========================================== boinic-hwe-mitigations=off . 662.46 |========================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better bionic ..................... 153.51 |========================================== bionic-hwe ................. 129.97 |==================================== boinic-hwe-mitigations=off . 129.02 |=================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better bionic ..................... 125.33 |========================================== bionic-hwe ................. 126.11 |========================================== boinic-hwe-mitigations=off . 126.72 |==========================================