audio haswell Intel Core i7-4790K testing with a Gigabyte Z97-HD3P (F4 BIOS) and Gigabyte Intel Haswell Desktop 2GB on Ubuntu 19.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 1: Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.40GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3P (F4 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16GB, Disk: 120GB OCZ TRION100, Graphics: Gigabyte Intel Haswell Desktop 2GB (1250MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: LG Ultra HD, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 19.10, Kernel: 5.9.0-050900rc8daily20201009-generic (x86_64) 20201008, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.34.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.5, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.5, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 19.2.8, Vulkan: 1.1.102, Compiler: GCC 9.2.1 20191008, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 2: Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.40GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3P (F4 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16GB, Disk: 120GB OCZ TRION100, Graphics: Gigabyte Intel Haswell Desktop 2GB (1250MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: LG Ultra HD, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 19.10, Kernel: 5.9.0-050900rc8daily20201009-generic (x86_64) 20201008, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.34.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.5, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.5, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 19.2.8, Vulkan: 1.1.102, Compiler: GCC 9.2.1 20191008, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 3: Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.40GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3P (F4 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16GB, Disk: 120GB OCZ TRION100, Graphics: Gigabyte Intel Haswell Desktop 2GB (1250MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: LG Ultra HD, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 19.10, Kernel: 5.9.0-050900rc8daily20201009-generic (x86_64) 20201008, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.34.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.5, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.5, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 19.2.8, Vulkan: 1.1.102, Compiler: GCC 9.2.1 20191008, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Opus Codec Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To Opus Encode Seconds < Lower Is Better 1 . 8.145 |==================================================================== 2 . 8.131 |==================================================================== 3 . 8.129 |==================================================================== WavPack Audio Encoding 5.3 WAV To WavPack Seconds < Lower Is Better 1 . 13.73 |==================================================================== 2 . 13.72 |==================================================================== 3 . 13.75 |==================================================================== Ogg Audio Encoding 1.3.4 WAV To Ogg Seconds < Lower Is Better 1 . 21.20 |==================================================================== 2 . 21.22 |==================================================================== 3 . 21.21 |====================================================================