nouveaudriver AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core testing with a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 and ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 896MB on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. primera: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 840 + 1500GB SAMSUNG HD154UI + 1000GB External USB 3.0, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 896MB (633/1134MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-19-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.15.0, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better primera . 1552 |=============================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better primera . 4288.89 |============================================================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better primera . 4764.03 |============================================================ C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better primera . 25.65 |============================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better primera . 18192.97 |===========================================================