Intel Core i7 5960X CPU Core Scaling Under Linux
x264 was scaling near-linearly.
The efficiency of building the Linux kernel across the increasing core count...
If you wish to look at more of these benchmark results from various multi-threaded open-source applications on Linux with the Core i7 5960X on Ubuntu, you can see the raw results, in line graph form to better look at the scaling, or with all of the results normalized against one core/thread.
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