Second Run Of Cairo Intel Core i7-3960X testing with a Intel DX79SI and NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 1024MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Cairo Nouveau: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 1024MB (625/400MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.3.0-rc1-nouveau+ (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0-devel (git-7434320) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6 + Clang 4.2.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 cairo-perf-trace 1.10.2 Cairo Trace: Firefox Canvas Seconds < Lower Is Better Cairo Nouveau . 88.60 |======================================================== cairo-perf-trace 1.10.2 Cairo Trace: GNOME Terminal Vim Seconds < Lower Is Better Cairo Nouveau . 47.96 |======================================================== cairo-perf-trace 1.10.2 Cairo Trace: Poppler Seconds < Lower Is Better Cairo Nouveau . 20.88 |========================================================