plat Intel Core i5-2500K testing with a ASUS P8Z77-V LX (2501 BIOS) and Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5670/5690/5730 1GB on LinuxMint 3 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Xeon Platinum 8253: Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8253 @ 3.00GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads), Motherboard: Supermicro X11SPL-F v1.02 (3.1 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 32GB, Disk: 500GB Samsung SSD 860, Graphics: llvmpipe 31GB, Monitor: VE228, Network: 2 x Intel I210 OS: Ubuntu 19.04, Kernel: 5.0.0-38-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.32.2, Display Server: X Server 1.20.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.4, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 19.0.8 (LLVM 8.0 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 8.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Z77@i5-2500k@24GB: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 6.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V LX (2501 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core DRAM, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 860 + 128GB Samsung SSD 840 + 750GB Western Digital WD7500AAKS-0 + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARS-00M + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EAVS-00M, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5670/5690/5730 1GB, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: W2220, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: LinuxMint 3, Kernel: 4.9.0-11-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 4.2.4, Display Server: X Server 1.19.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.2, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.9.1), Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 R Benchmark Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon Platinum 8253 . 0.3729 |===================== Z77@i5-2500k@24GB ........ 0.7668 |============================================ Zstd Compression Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon Platinum 8253 . 201.84 |============================================ Z77@i5-2500k@24GB ........ 156.18 |================================== Cryptsetup 2.1.0 PBKDF2-sha512 Iterations Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon Platinum 8253 . 1194285 |=========================================== Cryptsetup PBKDF2-whirlpool Iterations Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon Platinum 8253 . 508688 |=================================== Z77@i5-2500k@24GB ........ 646740 |============================================ Darktable 2.6.0 Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon Platinum 8253 . 21.28 |============================================= Darktable 2.6.0 Test: Masskrug - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon Platinum 8253 . 7.454 |============================================= Darktable 2.6.0 Test: Server Rack - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon Platinum 8253 . 0.318 |============================================= Darktable 2.6.0 Test: Server Room - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon Platinum 8253 . 5.715 |============================================= GIMP 2.10.8 Test: resize Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon Platinum 8253 . 14.47 |============================================= GIMP 2.10.8 Test: rotate Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon Platinum 8253 . 23.07 |============================================= GIMP 2.10.8 Test: auto-levels Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon Platinum 8253 . 24.85 |============================================= GIMP 2.10.8 Test: unsharp-mask Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon Platinum 8253 . 30.79 |============================================= Inkscape Operation: SVG Files To PNG Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon Platinum 8253 . 38.99 |============================================= Z77@i5-2500k@24GB ........ 31.62 |==================================== LibreOffice Test: 20 Documents To PDF Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon Platinum 8253 . 11.27 |===================================== Z77@i5-2500k@24GB ........ 13.61 |============================================= GNU Octave Benchmark 4.4.1 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon Platinum 8253 . 24.79 |============================================= Tesseract OCR 4.0.0 Time To OCR 7 Images Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon Platinum 8253 . 38.84 |============================================= Cryptsetup 1.7.3 PBKDF2-sha512 Iterations Per Second > Higher Is Better Z77@i5-2500k@24GB . 1089549 |================================================= Z77@i5-2500k@24GB . 1113930 |================================================== Cryptsetup 2.1.0 PBKDF2-whirlpool Iterations Per Second > Higher Is Better Z77@i5-2500k@24GB . 645674 |=================================================== Darktable 2.2.1 Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Z77@i5-2500k@24GB . 26.67 |==================================================== Darktable 2.2.1 Test: Masskrug - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Z77@i5-2500k@24GB . 17.46 |==================================================== Darktable 2.2.1 Test: Server Rack - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Z77@i5-2500k@24GB . 0.363 |==================================================== Darktable 2.2.1 Test: Server Room - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Z77@i5-2500k@24GB . 14.33 |==================================================== GIMP 2.8.18 Test: resize Seconds < Lower Is Better Z77@i5-2500k@24GB . 8.968 |==================================================== GIMP 2.8.18 Test: rotate Seconds < Lower Is Better Z77@i5-2500k@24GB . 19.84 |==================================================== GIMP 2.8.18 Test: auto-levels Seconds < Lower Is Better Z77@i5-2500k@24GB . 18.15 |==================================================== GIMP 2.8.18 Test: unsharp-mask Seconds < Lower Is Better Z77@i5-2500k@24GB . 38.27 |====================================================