ballistic-overkilling Intel Core i7-7700K testing with a MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0 and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4096MB on Ubuntu 17.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Vulkan: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f + Z270, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4096MB (966/3504MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.10.0-21-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.19.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 381.22, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.42, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 OpenGL: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f + Z270, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4096MB (1316/3504MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.10.0-21-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.19.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 381.22, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.42, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Timed Idle CPU Usage (Summary) Monitor Percent < Lower Is Better Vulkan . MIN: 3.2 AVG: 19.3 MAX: 35.5 OpenGL . MIN: 1.8 AVG: 30.7 MAX: 43.8 Timed Idle GPU Usage Monitor Percent < Lower Is Better Vulkan . MIN: 1 AVG: 96 MAX: 100 OpenGL . MIN: 1 AVG: 92 MAX: 100