xrender-res Intel Core i5-2500K testing with a MSI Z68S-G43 (G3) (MS-7750) v1.0 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2048MB on Ubuntu 13.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. xrender: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z68S-G43 (G3) (MS-7750) v1.0, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 3001GB Western Digital WD30EZRX-00D + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EZRX-00D + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EADS-19M, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2048MB (705/3004MHz), Audio: Ensoniq ES1371, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-13-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 331.20, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1440x900 QGears2 XRender + Text Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better xrender . 221.91 |============================================================= QGears2 XRender + Gears Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better xrender . 192.85 |============================================================= QGears2 XRender + Image Scaling Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better xrender . 1296.38 |============================================================ Render Bench Phoronix Test Suite v4.6.0 Seconds < Lower Is Better xrender . 15.87 |==============================================================