It's worth noting with those PI benchmarks that a very significant portion of the final result seems due to the swap speed.
This seems a bit strange to me as I don't think I've ever used anywhere near my full 64GB of ram in PI and so it's never had to use swap - which is slow on my box and pulls my final score down.
Here are the numbers for my box (this was an old one in Win8.1, can't find my CentOS score and I've never bothered doing it again in Win10):
Total performance ...... 5157
CPU performance ........ 8683
Swap performance ....... 1929
So going purely by the total score you'd be better off using an i7 with seriously fast swap when in reality, as my box never seems to run out of ram in PI, my box will be faster.
I do think it's time for another SSD upgrade though!
