baremetal-computational 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: 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 MrBayes Analysis 3.2.7 Primate Phylogeny Analysis Seconds < Lower Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off . 109.52 |========================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off . 13.77 |=========================================== GNU GMP GMPbench 6.1.2 Total Time GMPbench Score > Higher Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off . 4850.80 |========================================= Fhourstones 3.1 Complex Connect-4 Solving Kpos / sec > Higher Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off . 12359.17 |======================================== BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Dhrystone 2 LPS > Higher Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off . 33872398.20 |===================================== SciMark 2.0 Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off . 574.68 |========================================== Crafty 25.2 Elapsed Time Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off . 7389493 |========================================= TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off . 1260369 |========================================= Open FMM Nero2D 2.0.2 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off . 169.63 |========================================== Stockfish 9 Total Time Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off . 5630746 |========================================= asmFish 2018-07-23 1024 Hash Memory, 26 Depth Nodes/second > Higher Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off . 5991572 |========================================= dcraw RAW To PPM Image Conversion Seconds < Lower Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off . 43.24 |=========================================== Minion 1.8 Solitaire Seconds < Lower Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off . 70.16 |=========================================== Sudokut 0.4 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better bionic-hwe-mitigations=off . 10.93 |===========================================