Mainrig gnome3 Intel Core i5-2500K testing with a Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Gnome 3 on my main rig: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB SanDisk SDSSDH12 + 160GB Seagate ST3160827AS + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EADS-00L + 250GB Maxtor 6L250S0 + 64GB M4-CT064M4SSD2, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (700/1840MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-25-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.4.1, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 295.49, OpenGL: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 295.49, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Gnome 3 on my main rig . 143.61 |============================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Gnome 3 on my main rig . 10.80 |=============================================== Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Gnome 3 on my main rig . 30409.21 |============================================ LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Gnome 3 on my main rig . 15.19 |=============================================== FFmpeg 0.10 AVI To NTSC VCD Seconds < Lower Is Better Gnome 3 on my main rig . 11.30 |=============================================== GnuPG 1.4.10 1GB File Encryption Seconds < Lower Is Better Gnome 3 on my main rig . 9.42 |================================================ GMPbench 0.2 Total Time GMPbench Score > Higher Is Better Gnome 3 on my main rig . 3067.90 |============================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Gnome 3 on my main rig . 52.01 |=============================================== POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Gnome 3 on my main rig . 738 |================================================= Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Gnome 3 on my main rig . 7.44 |================================================ Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Gnome 3 on my main rig . 14.72 |=============================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Gnome 3 on my main rig . 106.88 |============================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Gnome 3 on my main rig . 13563.34 |============================================ Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Gnome 3 on my main rig . 347.92 |============================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Gnome 3 on my main rig . 156 |================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Gnome 3 on my main rig . 50 |================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Gnome 3 on my main rig . 82.08 |=============================================== Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Gnome 3 on my main rig . 85.12 |=============================================== Sunflow Rendering System 0.07.2 Global Illumination + Image Synthesis Seconds < Lower Is Better Gnome 3 on my main rig . 3.86 |================================================ Sudokut 0.4 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Gnome 3 on my main rig . 22.17 |=============================================== Open FMM Nero2D 2.0.2 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Gnome 3 on my main rig . 500.95 |============================================== dcraw RAW To PPM Image Conversion Seconds < Lower Is Better Gnome 3 on my main rig . 67.07 |=============================================== Minion 0.12 Solitaire Seconds < Lower Is Better Gnome 3 on my main rig . 115.25 |============================================== PyBench 2008-08-14 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Gnome 3 on my main rig . 2122 |================================================ PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better Gnome 3 on my main rig . 450.01 |==============================================