unigine-heaven-1080p Intel Core i3-6100 testing with a ASUS Z170 PRO GAMING and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 on Arch rolling via the Phoronix Test Suite. unigine-heaven 1080p: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 6.30GHz (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 + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EADS-19M + 3001GB Western Digital WD30EZRX-00D + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EZRX-00D, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (1113/3505MHz), Audio: Ensoniq ES1371/ES1373, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.10.0-20-lowlatency (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 381.09, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.42, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406 + Clang 3.6.2-3ubuntu4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 4640x1144 GTX970 SLI: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 4.10GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A12) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EADS-19M + 3001GB Western Digital WD30EZRX-00D + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EZRX-00D, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (1113/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.10.0-22-lowlatency (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 381.22, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.46, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406 + Clang 3.6.2-3ubuntu4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3360x1140 Upgrade: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A12) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EADS-19M + 3001GB Western Digital WD30EZRX-00D + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EZRX-00D + 40GB Seagate ST9402115A, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (1113/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.10.0-22-lowlatency (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 381.22, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.46, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406 + Clang 3.6.2-3ubuntu4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 4640x1140 i3-6100: Processor: Intel Core i3-6100 @ 3.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Z170 PRO GAMING, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 3 x 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1ER1 + 500GB Seagate ST500LT012-1DG14, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 (1189/3304MHz), Audio: NVIDIA Device 0fba, Network: Intel Connection + Qualcomm Atheros AR9287 Wireless OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.10.13-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.24.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 381.22, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.42, Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 20170306 + Clang 4.0.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Unigine Heaven 4.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better unigine-heaven 1080p . 66.69 |========================================== GTX970 SLI ........... 77.99 |================================================= Upgrade .............. 74.61 |=============================================== i3-6100 .............. 47.46 |==============================