baremetal-cpu 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-hwe-mitigations=off-performance: 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 Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off-performance . 330.21 |============================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off-performance . 82.88 |=============================== NAMD 2.13b1 ATPase Simulation - 327,506 Atoms days/ns < Lower Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off-performance . 7.18286 |============================= x264 2018-09-25 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off-performance . 22.56 |=============================== x265 3.0 H.265 1080p Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off-performance . 13.43 |=============================== 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off-performance . 13191 |=============================== Stockfish 9 Total Time Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off-performance . 5588222 |============================= asmFish 2018-07-23 1024 Hash Memory, 26 Depth Nodes/second > Higher Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off-performance . 6054425 |============================= Timed GCC Compilation 8.2 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off-performance . 2231.41 |============================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.18 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off-performance . 280.58 |============================== POV-Ray 3.7.0.7 Trace Time Seconds < Lower Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off-performance . 208.66 |============================== Radiance Benchmark 5.0 Test: Serial Seconds < Lower Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off-performance . 820.10 |============================== Radiance Benchmark 5.0 Test: SMP Parallel Seconds < Lower Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off-performance . 410.83 |============================== OpenSSL 1.1.1 RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off-performance . 581.30 |============================== ctx_clock Context Switch Time Clocks < Lower Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off-performance . 183 |================================= Sysbench 2018-07-28 Test: CPU Events Per Second > Higher Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off-performance . 4364.83 |=============================