Intel Core i9 7960X Linux Benchmarks

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 25 September 2017 at 03:01 AM EDT. Page 2 of 7. 31 Comments.

These initial benchmarks of the Core i9 7960X are compared to the Core i9 7900X, Core i7 7820X, Core i7 7740X, and Ryzen Threadripper. All systems were tested with Corsair 4 x 4GB DDR4-3200 memory, and Corsair 240GB Force MP500 NVMe SSD. A daily snapshot of Ubuntu 17.10 was running on the system with the Linux 4.13 kernel, GCC 7.2.0, and using an EXT4 file-system.

The Core i9 7960X was using air-cooling with a Noctua NH-U9S. Above is a look at its cooling performance with the 7960X under various workloads. See more in Keeping Intel Core X-Series CPUs Cool With Noctua Air Cooling while there is more i9-7960X thermal data in this OpenBenchmarking.org result file. The peak temperature was 61C with an average temperature under load of 41.6C. Not bad for air cooling with this 165 Watt processor, which definitely requires high-end air cooling or water cooling. The thermal results were recorded when the system was enclosed within a Rosewill 4U chassis.

These benchmarks were facilitated in a fully-automated and standardized manner using the open-source Phoronix Test Suite benchmarking software.


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