AudioOldSystem Intel Core i7-6700K testing with a ASUS MAXIMUS VIII HERO (3802 BIOS) and MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB on Arch rolling via the Phoronix Test Suite. OldSystem: Processor: Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.60GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS MAXIMUS VIII HERO (3802 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500, Memory: 16GB, Disk: 1000GB Samsung SSD 970 EVO 1TB + 240GB Crucial CT240M50, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: ROG PG278Q, Network: Intel I219-V OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 5.11.11-arch1-1 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.3, Display Server: X Server 1.20.10, Display Driver: NVIDIA 460.67, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Compiler: GCC 10.2.0 + Clang 11.1.0 + CUDA 11.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 7680x1440 FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better OldSystem . 8.965 |============================================================ LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better OldSystem . 8.123 |============================================================ Ogg Audio Encoding 1.3.4 WAV To Ogg Seconds < Lower Is Better OldSystem . 19.51 |============================================================ Opus Codec Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To Opus Encode Seconds < Lower Is Better OldSystem . 8.066 |============================================================ WavPack Audio Encoding 5.3 WAV To WavPack Seconds < Lower Is Better OldSystem . 14.25 |============================================================