A Wild 40-Way Linux System Benchmark Comparison

Fastest for building the Linux kernel was the Xeon E5-2687W v3 Haswell system that has ten physical cores plus Hyper Threading. The fastest system built the Linux kernel in just under one minute where as the slowest was an AMD A6-7400K APU taking over ten minutes.

C-Ray is always a fun test for multi-core systems.

Again, the software stacks on these different systems vary, but nevertheless some fun weekend benchmarking.

You can dig through more of this data via this OpenBenchmarking.org result file and if wishing to compare your own systems, simply install the Phoronix Test Suite and run phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1605087-HA-WILDCOMPA12.