9-Way Intel Xeon E3 v5 Skylake Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux
The FX-8370 lacking AVX2 is one of the reasons for its poor performance in this test.
More cores always help when compiling the Linux kernel from source.
OpenSSL is the only workload carried out where the AMD FX-8370 is competitive with any of the comparable Intel CPUs. OpenSSL has long been one of the workloads that tends to perform rather well on AMD processors compared to Intel.