lapdog Intel Core i5-2500K testing with a Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 (F9 BIOS) and MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB on Arch Linux via the Phoronix Test Suite. Basic i3 Laptop: Processor: Intel Core i3-2310M @ 2.10GHz (2 Cores / 4 Threads), Motherboard: Dell 0675PR (A01 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 320GB HGST HTS725032A7, Graphics: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family IGP (1100MHz), Audio: IDT 92HD90BXX, Network: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5761 Gigabit PCIe + Broadcom Limited BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-15-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 Intel Core i5-2500K - MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 5.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 (F9 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 250GB CT250MX500SSD1 + 128GB M4-CT128M4SSD2 + 4001GB TOSHIBA MD04ACA4, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB (1019/3004MHz), Audio: NVIDIA GK104 HDMI Audio, Monitor: HP ZR2440w, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 4.16.2-2-zen (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Driver: NVIDIA 390.48, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Compiler: GCC 7.3.1 20180312 + Clang 6.0.0 + LLVM 6.0.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 OSBench Test: Create Files us Per Event < Lower Is Better Basic i3 Laptop .................................. 36.67 |===================== Intel Core i5-2500K - MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 . 17.95 |========== OSBench Test: Create Threads us Per Event < Lower Is Better Basic i3 Laptop .................................. 25.42 |===================== Intel Core i5-2500K - MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 . 12.62 |========== OSBench Test: Launch Programs us Per Event < Lower Is Better Basic i3 Laptop .................................. 160.45 |==================== Intel Core i5-2500K - MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 . 57.85 |======= OSBench Test: Create Processes us Per Event < Lower Is Better Basic i3 Laptop .................................. 53.19 |===================== Intel Core i5-2500K - MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 . 19.93 |======== OSBench Test: Memory Allocations Ns Per Event < Lower Is Better Basic i3 Laptop .................................. 135.94 |==================== Intel Core i5-2500K - MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 . 81.47 |============