bedo Intel Core i5-2500K testing with a Gigabyte P67-DS3-B3 (F5 BIOS) and Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS on Debian 10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Western Digital WD800JD-75MS: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 5.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte P67-DS3-B3 (F5 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core DRAM, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB 1600MT/s, Disk: 80GB Western Digital WD800JD-75MS, Graphics: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Debian 10, Kernel: 5.9.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 8.3.0, File-System: nfs Intel Core i5-2500K: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 5.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte P67-DS3-B3 (F5 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core DRAM, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB 1600MT/s, Disk: 80GB Western Digital WD800JD-75MS, Graphics: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Debian 10, Kernel: 5.9.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 8.3.0, File-System: nfs LevelDB 1.22 Benchmark: Hot Read Microseconds Per Op < Lower Is Better Western Digital WD800JD-75MS . 0.997 |========================================= LevelDB 1.22 Benchmark: Fill Sync Microseconds Per Op < Lower Is Better Western Digital WD800JD-75MS . 57061.85 |====================================== LevelDB 1.22 Benchmark: Overwrite MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD800JD-75MS . 22.3 |========================================== LevelDB 1.22 Benchmark: Overwrite Microseconds Per Op < Lower Is Better Western Digital WD800JD-75MS . 19.61 |========================================= LevelDB 1.22 Benchmark: Random Fill MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD800JD-75MS . 22.1 |========================================== LevelDB 1.22 Benchmark: Random Fill Microseconds Per Op < Lower Is Better Western Digital WD800JD-75MS . 19.90 |========================================= LevelDB 1.22 Benchmark: Random Read Microseconds Per Op < Lower Is Better Western Digital WD800JD-75MS . 0.997 |========================================= LevelDB 1.22 Benchmark: Seek Random Microseconds Per Op < Lower Is Better Western Digital WD800JD-75MS . 1.381 |========================================= LevelDB 1.22 Benchmark: Random Delete Microseconds Per Op < Lower Is Better Western Digital WD800JD-75MS . 9.710 |========================================= LevelDB 1.22 Benchmark: Sequential Fill MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD800JD-75MS . 21.1 |========================================== LevelDB 1.22 Benchmark: Sequential Fill Microseconds Per Op < Lower Is Better Western Digital WD800JD-75MS . 20.88 |========================================= SQLite 3.30.1 Threads / Copies: 1 Seconds < Lower Is Better Western Digital WD800JD-75MS . 237.29 |======================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: XZ 0 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 42 |===================================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: XZ 0 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 130 |==================================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Zstd 1 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 462 |==================================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Zstd 1 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 1239 |=================================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Zstd 8 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 95 |===================================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Zstd 8 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 1351 |=================================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Crush 0 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 109 |==================================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Crush 0 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 557 |==================================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Brotli 0 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 472 |==================================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Brotli 0 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 605 |==================================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Brotli 2 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 183 |==================================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Brotli 2 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 693 |==================================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Libdeflate 1 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 241 |==================================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Libdeflate 1 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 1034 |=================================================== Zstd Compression 1.4.5 Compression Level: 3 MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 1240.6 |================================================= Zstd Compression 1.4.5 Compression Level: 19 MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 13.2 |=================================================== 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 18980 |================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 5.4 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 365.09 |================================================= Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 14.84 |================================================== Gzip Compression Linux Source Tree Archiving To .tar.gz Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 515.91 |================================================= XZ Compression 5.2.4 Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 9 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 127.20 |================================================= System GZIP Decompression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 4.223 |================================================== System XZ Decompression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 3.633 |================================================== System ZLIB Decompression 1.2.7 ms < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 2049.76 |================================================ Blender 2.90 Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 534.53 |================================================= Blender 2.90 Blend File: Classroom - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 1995.47 |================================================ Blender 2.90 Blend File: Fishy Cat - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 880.41 |================================================= Blender 2.90 Blend File: Pabellon Barcelona - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 1879.99 |================================================ PHP Micro Benchmarks Test: Zend bench Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 1.443 |================================================== PHP Micro Benchmarks Test: Zend micro_bench Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 5.851 |==================================================