arch Intel Core i5-3470 testing with a Gigabyte H77N-WIFI and Gigabyte AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB on Arch rolling via the Phoronix Test Suite. arch: Processor: Intel Core i5-3470 @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte H77N-WIFI, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 1500GB Seagate ST1500DM003-9YN1, Graphics: Gigabyte AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Intel 7 /C210, Monitor: VS248, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 3.15.5-2-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.13.3, Display Server: X Server 1.15.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 QGears2 Rendering: OpenGL - Test: Text Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better arch . 558.14 |================================================================ QGears2 Rendering: OpenGL - Test: Gears Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better arch . 511.60 |================================================================ QGears2 Rendering: OpenGL - Test: Image Scaling Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better arch . 5275.27 |=============================================================== QGears2 Rendering: CPU-based Raster - Test: Text Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better arch . 253.29 |================================================================ QGears2 Rendering: CPU-based Raster - Test: Gears Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better arch . 160.88 |================================================================ QGears2 Rendering: XRender Extension - Test: Text Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better arch . 279.26 |================================================================ QGears2 Rendering: XRender Extension - Test: Gears Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better arch . 169.03 |================================================================ QGears2 Rendering: CPU-based Raster - Test: Image Scaling Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better arch . 1097.89 |=============================================================== QGears2 Rendering: XRender Extension - Test: Image Scaling Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better arch . 1290.87 |===============================================================