velox1 Running pts/unigine-tropics-1.6.2 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core 2 Duo E8600: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 @ 4.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P5N73-CM, Chipset: NVIDIA nForce 630i, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKX-7, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2048MB (1124/2700MHz), Audio: NVIDIA MCP73 HD Audio, Network: NVIDIA MCP73 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.18.12-031812-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.5, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 346.72, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 - ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 @ 4.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P5N73-CM, Chipset: NVIDIA nForce 630i, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKX-7, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2048MB (1124/2700MHz), Audio: NVIDIA MCP73 HD Audio, Network: NVIDIA MCP73 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.18.12-031812-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.5, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 346.72, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 @ 4.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P5N73-CM, Chipset: NVIDIA nForce 630i, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKX-7, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2048MB (1124/2700MHz), Audio: NVIDIA MCP73 HD Audio, Network: NVIDIA MCP73 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.18.12-031812-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.5, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 346.72, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 . 14.29 |=============================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 . 6148 |================================================ John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 . 2218 |================================================ Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 - ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 . 2129.27 |=============== Bullet Physics Engine 2.81 Test: Raytests Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 . 4.37 |================================================ FFmpeg 2.6.2 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 . 21.73 |=============================================== CLOMP 3.3 Static OMP Speedup Speedup > Higher Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 . 1.77 |================================================ C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 . 91.80 |=============================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 . 16.68 |=============================================== Unigine Tropics 1.3 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Mode: Windowed Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti . 64.77 |======================================= Unigine Tropics 1.3 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti . 67.70 |======================================= Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti . 155.70 |====================================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti . 207.74 |======================================