Intel 2D SNA and UXA acceleration benchmarks from Core i7 HD 4000 Ivy Bridge under Unity, GNOME Shell, KDE, GNOME Classic, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments from Ubuntu 12.10. Benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel.
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Intel 2D Ubuntu 12.10 SNA UXA Desktops,
"cairo-perf-trace 1.10.2 - Cairo Trace: Firefox Canvas",
Lower Results Are Better
"UXA: Unity 6.4",47.038,47.318,46.942
"UXA: KDE SC 4.9",47.023,47.677,47.1
"UXA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",47.534,48.09,47.115
"UXA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",47.682,47.817,47.352
"UXA: Xfce 4.10",47.685,47.472,48.389
"UXA: LXDE 0.5.11",48.001,48.149,47.631
"SNA: Unity 6.4",18.856,18.613,18.574
"SNA: KDE SC 4.9",18.574,18.237,18.28
"SNA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",58.109,71.359,73.69,57.408,72.623,73.309
"SNA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",18.555,18.568,18.471
"SNA: Xfce 4.10",18.411,18.385,18.318
"SNA: LXDE 0.5.11",18.711,18.389,18.231
"cairo-perf-trace 1.10.2 - Cairo Trace: GNOME Terminal Vim",
Lower Results Are Better
"UXA: Unity 6.4",10.52,10.594,10.738
"UXA: KDE SC 4.9",11.169,10.279,10.374,10.386,10.209,10.894
"UXA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",10.463,10.523,10.357
"UXA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",11.522,11.412,10.55,11.301,10.401,11.079
"UXA: Xfce 4.10",10.41,10.312,10.668
"UXA: LXDE 0.5.11",10.611,10.42,10.475
"SNA: Unity 6.4",1.928,1.731,1.737,1.734,1.731,1.729
"SNA: KDE SC 4.9",2.002,1.818,1.809,1.812,1.811,1.808
"SNA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",2.052,1.879,1.891,1.88,2.019,1.886
"SNA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",2.281,1.821,1.819,1.826,1.817,1.821
"SNA: Xfce 4.10",2.032,1.816,1.815,1.803,1.832,1.793
"SNA: LXDE 0.5.11",2.029,1.809,1.807,1.808,1.816,1.826
"x11perf 1.5 - Test: 500px Compositing From Window To Window",
Higher Results Are Better
"UXA: Unity 6.4",6300,6360,6360
"UXA: KDE SC 4.9",6310,6300,6320
"UXA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",6340,6370,6440
"UXA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",5930,5950,5950
"UXA: Xfce 4.10",5920,5920,5920
"UXA: LXDE 0.5.11",5910,5910,5910
"SNA: Unity 6.4",6080,5890,5920
"SNA: KDE SC 4.9",6110,6110,6100
"SNA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",8740,9760,10500,8280,12000,7420
"SNA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",5830,5940,5850
"SNA: Xfce 4.10",5800,5870,5890
"SNA: LXDE 0.5.11",5850,5920,5940
"cairo-perf-trace 1.10.2 - Cairo Trace: Poppler",
Lower Results Are Better
"UXA: Unity 6.4",4.291,4.168,4.253
"UXA: KDE SC 4.9",3.994,3.963,3.942
"UXA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",4.213,4.17,4.157
"UXA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",4.214,4.234,4.148
"UXA: Xfce 4.10",3.984,3.947,4.092
"UXA: LXDE 0.5.11",4.044,4.004,4.029
"SNA: Unity 6.4",1.112,1.003,1.005,0.998,0.998,1.072
"SNA: KDE SC 4.9",1.565,0.98,0.983,0.982,0.991,0.981
"SNA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",1.313,1.234,1.23,1.228
"SNA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",1.132,1.014,1.015,1.017,1.034,1.032
"SNA: Xfce 4.10",1.08,0.982,0.989,0.98,0.982,0.986
"SNA: LXDE 0.5.11",1.08,0.987,0.987,0.981,0.987,0.984
"GtkPerf 0.40 - GTK Widget: GtkComboBoxEntry",
Lower Results Are Better
"UXA: Unity 6.4",42.99,42.91,42.83
"UXA: KDE SC 4.9",51.96,55.75,62.56,61.19,60.02,62.13
"UXA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",47.77,47.44,48.7
"UXA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",53.96,54.18,53.82
"UXA: Xfce 4.10",53.37,53.39,53.02
"UXA: LXDE 0.5.11",22.95,22.82,22.66
"SNA: Unity 6.4",38.88,38.86,38.61
"SNA: KDE SC 4.9",40.64,39.96,40.17
"SNA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",106.61,108.2,106.41
"SNA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",54.1,54.5,53.94
"SNA: Xfce 4.10",19.56,19.52,19.98
"SNA: LXDE 0.5.11",46.88,47.53,49.32
"Cairo Performance Demos 2012-01-30 - Demo: Gears",
Higher Results Are Better
"UXA: Unity 6.4",165.44,166.37,168.87
"UXA: KDE SC 4.9",122.4,122.72,123.03
"UXA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",188.92,188.81,188.62
"UXA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",190.32,188.85,189.01
"UXA: Xfce 4.10",188.56,189.9,188.93
"UXA: LXDE 0.5.11",189.49,189.15,189.28
"SNA: Unity 6.4",227.83,229.94,228.68
"SNA: KDE SC 4.9",141.2,140.92,140.54
"SNA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",277.25,277.39,277.23
"SNA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",277.09,277.6,276.37
"SNA: Xfce 4.10",276.7,280.83,276.8
"SNA: LXDE 0.5.11",276.77,277.22,277.66
"x11perf 1.5 - Test: Fill 300 x 300px AA Trapezoid",
Higher Results Are Better
"UXA: Unity 6.4",2080,2050,2060
"UXA: KDE SC 4.9",2050,2070,2050
"UXA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",2080,2080,2080
"UXA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",2080,2070,2090
"UXA: Xfce 4.10",2150,2060,2050
"UXA: LXDE 0.5.11",2090,2150,2110
"SNA: Unity 6.4",139000,140000,139000
"SNA: KDE SC 4.9",141000,142000,142000
"SNA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",117000,146000,146000,145000,146000,146000
"SNA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",145000,143000,142000
"SNA: Xfce 4.10",142000,142000,143000
"SNA: LXDE 0.5.11",143000,142000,143000
"GtkPerf 0.40 - GTK Widget: GtkRadioButton",
Lower Results Are Better
"UXA: Unity 6.4",4.31,4.11,4.06
"UXA: KDE SC 4.9",4.2,4.03,3.98
"UXA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",4.15,3.94,3.93
"UXA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",10.3,10.3,10.34
"UXA: Xfce 4.10",9.18,9.07,9.04
"UXA: LXDE 0.5.11",8.97,8.97,8.99
"SNA: Unity 6.4",4.6,4.31,4.33,4.33
"SNA: KDE SC 4.9",4.19,4.28,4.27
"SNA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",9.92,10.09,10
"SNA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",10.64,10.56,10.44
"SNA: Xfce 4.10",7.9,7.81,7.77
"SNA: LXDE 0.5.11",8.15,8.31,8.28
"x11perf 1.5 - Test: Scrolling 500 x 500 px",
Higher Results Are Better
"UXA: Unity 6.4",6310,6250,6290
"UXA: KDE SC 4.9",6220,6190,6290
"UXA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",6450,6390,6430
"UXA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",6290,6300,6300
"UXA: Xfce 4.10",6310,6310,6310
"UXA: LXDE 0.5.11",6220,6220,6220
"SNA: Unity 6.4",6140,5990,5960
"SNA: KDE SC 4.9",6230,6230,6250
"SNA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",6670,6420,6400
"SNA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",6300,6260,6300
"SNA: Xfce 4.10",6140,6170,6170
"SNA: LXDE 0.5.11",6300,6240,6220
"x11perf 1.5 - Test: Char in 80-char aa line",
Higher Results Are Better
"UXA: Unity 6.4",2500000,2500000,2490000
"UXA: KDE SC 4.9",1930000,1940000,1930000
"UXA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",2590000,2600000,2610000
"UXA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",2790000,2370000,2090000,2180000,1800000,2130000
"UXA: Xfce 4.10",2780000,2820000,2000000,2360000,1780000,2670000
"UXA: LXDE 0.5.11",2690000,2060000,2510000,1960000,1700000,2090000
"SNA: Unity 6.4",5510000,5480000,5460000
"SNA: KDE SC 4.9",4060000,4100000,3180000,2650000,3730000,3470000
"SNA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",5530000,5590000,5620000
"SNA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",17800000,17600000,12900000,11800000,10900000,10900000
"SNA: Xfce 4.10",17200000,15300000,10800000,12300000,11700000,12200000
"SNA: LXDE 0.5.11",17600000,17500000,17000000
"x11perf 1.5 - Test: 500px PutImage Square",
Higher Results Are Better
"UXA: Unity 6.4",2440,2500,2410
"UXA: KDE SC 4.9",2660,2640,2640
"UXA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",3040,3010,3100
"UXA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",3340,3310,3320
"UXA: Xfce 4.10",3040,3050,2990
"UXA: LXDE 0.5.11",3350,3190,3350
"SNA: Unity 6.4",2940,2820,2870
"SNA: KDE SC 4.9",2880,2870,2880
"SNA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",3200,3240,3220
"SNA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",3760,4060,4060,4010,4040
"SNA: Xfce 4.10",4070,4150,4140
"SNA: LXDE 0.5.11",4100,4170,4200
"Cairo Performance Demos 2012-01-30 - Demo: Gradients",
Higher Results Are Better
"UXA: Unity 6.4",49.43,50.16,49.14
"UXA: KDE SC 4.9",53.44,53.87,53.38
"UXA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",44.85,44.79,44.63
"UXA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",44.85,44.29,44.67
"UXA: Xfce 4.10",44.45,44.88,44.75
"UXA: LXDE 0.5.11",45.7,44.96,44.31
"SNA: Unity 6.4",49.52,49.38,50.27
"SNA: KDE SC 4.9",47.36,47.66,47.84
"SNA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",30.21,30.71,30.78
"SNA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",41.06,41.35,41.87
"SNA: Xfce 4.10",41.21,41.53,41.79
"SNA: LXDE 0.5.11",41.03,41.97,41.03
"Cairo Performance Demos 2012-01-30 - Demo: Charts",
Higher Results Are Better
"UXA: Unity 6.4",16.53,16.65,16.67
"UXA: KDE SC 4.9",15.91,16.07,16
"UXA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",17.47,17.47,17.46
"UXA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",17.48,17.46,17.45
"UXA: Xfce 4.10",17.49,17.6,17.48
"UXA: LXDE 0.5.11",17.49,17.63,17.49
"SNA: Unity 6.4",87.51,86.73,86.37
"SNA: KDE SC 4.9",59.85,59.85,59.93
"SNA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",94.92,92.26,95.79
"SNA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",96.15,92.52,99.08
"SNA: Xfce 4.10",94.74,95.12,94.5
"SNA: LXDE 0.5.11",94.52,92.37,94.27
"GtkPerf 0.40 - GTK Widget: GtkComboBox",
Lower Results Are Better
"UXA: Unity 6.4",30.88,30.66,30.79
"UXA: KDE SC 4.9",41.84,41.63,43.93
"UXA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",34.66,34.55,34.42
"UXA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",51.6,51.51,51.98
"UXA: Xfce 4.10",15.45,26.86,54.01,53.83,53.7,53.89
"UXA: LXDE 0.5.11",16.09,16.25,16.09
"SNA: Unity 6.4",27.86,27.99,28.09
"SNA: KDE SC 4.9",27.99,24.05,24.75,23.55,23.47,25.57
"SNA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",96.99,98.01,96.56
"SNA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",47.72,47.5,48.18
"SNA: Xfce 4.10",43.06,43.05,44.85
"SNA: LXDE 0.5.11",43.71,44.52,44.68
"x11perf 1.5 - Test: 500px Copy From Window To Window",
Higher Results Are Better
"UXA: Unity 6.4",6320,6260,6260
"UXA: KDE SC 4.9",6280,6230,6220
"UXA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",6380,6420,6420
"UXA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",5950,5950,5950
"UXA: Xfce 4.10",5920,5920,5920
"UXA: LXDE 0.5.11",5910,5910,5910
"SNA: Unity 6.4",6090,5910,5890
"SNA: KDE SC 4.9",6170,6140,6130
"SNA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",10400,10500,10500
"SNA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",5940,5860,5920
"SNA: Xfce 4.10",5890,5860,5890
"SNA: LXDE 0.5.11",5880,5880,5940
"GtkPerf 0.40 - GTK Widget: GtkCheckButton",
Lower Results Are Better
"UXA: Unity 6.4",4.6,4.32,4.26,4.3,4.25
"UXA: KDE SC 4.9",5.11,4.89,4.86
"UXA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",4.57,4.11,4.15,4.15,4.2,4.14
"UXA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",10.75,10.77,10.69
"UXA: Xfce 4.10",9.02,8.96,8.95
"UXA: LXDE 0.5.11",8.68,9.06,8.68
"SNA: Unity 6.4",4.45,4.25,4.22
"SNA: KDE SC 4.9",4.8,4.96,4.75
"SNA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",10.17,10.14,10.14
"SNA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",10.71,10.67,10.62
"SNA: Xfce 4.10",7.22,7.61,7.58
"SNA: LXDE 0.5.11",7.82,8.07,8.02
"x11perf 1.5 - Test: Copy 500x500 From Pixmap To Pixmap",
Higher Results Are Better
"UXA: Unity 6.4",6350,6420,6370
"UXA: KDE SC 4.9",6500,6340,6480
"UXA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",6380,6400,6380
"UXA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",6610,6460,6440
"UXA: Xfce 4.10",6490,6520,6540
"UXA: LXDE 0.5.11",6490,6530,6540
"SNA: Unity 6.4",5970,5990,6120
"SNA: KDE SC 4.9",6290,6380,6330
"SNA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",15400,15400,15400
"SNA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",6450,6350,6340
"SNA: Xfce 4.10",6600,6600,6600
"SNA: LXDE 0.5.11",6360,6310,6320
"GtkPerf 0.40 - GTK Widget: GtkToggleButton",
Lower Results Are Better
"UXA: Unity 6.4",4.22,4.04,4.05
"UXA: KDE SC 4.9",3.85,3.56,3.6,3.5,3.6,3.64
"UXA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",4.14,3.94,3.94
"UXA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",10.59,10.54,10.58
"UXA: Xfce 4.10",8.76,8.77,8.8
"UXA: LXDE 0.5.11",8.46,8.42,8.45
"SNA: Unity 6.4",4.35,4.13,4.14
"SNA: KDE SC 4.9",3.54,3.52,3.53
"SNA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",10.06,9.96,9.99
"SNA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",10.33,10.39,10.38
"SNA: Xfce 4.10",7.6,7.27,7.21
"SNA: LXDE 0.5.11",7.61,7.86,7.89
"x11perf 1.5 - Test: 500px Compositing From Pixmap To Window",
Higher Results Are Better
"UXA: Unity 6.4",6200,6060,6220
"UXA: KDE SC 4.9",5780,6010,6030
"UXA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",6220,6230,6230
"UXA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",6680,6670,6670
"UXA: Xfce 4.10",6700,6700,6690
"UXA: LXDE 0.5.11",7270,6680,7300,6690,6570,6700
"SNA: Unity 6.4",5070,4930,5110
"SNA: KDE SC 4.9",10100,7970,7860,7280,7830,7280
"SNA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",6130,7160,6690,7450,6370,7640
"SNA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",11100,9840,10200,9840,10100,9490
"SNA: Xfce 4.10",9200,8740,9560,10400,7440,8640
"SNA: LXDE 0.5.11",11100,9830,10600,9840,10600,9730
"GtkPerf 0.40 - GTK Widget: GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs",
Lower Results Are Better
"UXA: Unity 6.4",8.33,8.7,8.71
"UXA: KDE SC 4.9",9,8.24,7.97,8.01,7.35,7.81
"UXA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",8.12,5.85,5.41,5.32,5.7,5.26
"UXA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",4.36,8.08,4.55,8.56,7.27,4.31
"UXA: Xfce 4.10",5.19,8.03,4.02,8.17,8.12,5.35
"UXA: LXDE 0.5.11",0.33,0.33,0.33
"SNA: Unity 6.4",1.04,1.05,1.03
"SNA: KDE SC 4.9",1.36,1.35,1.38
"SNA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",0.62,0.61,0.7,0.7,0.61,0.7
"SNA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",0.5,0.45,0.52,0.46,0.46,0.56
"SNA: Xfce 4.10",0.46,0.39,0.37,0.94,0.35,0.9
"SNA: LXDE 0.5.11",0.42,0.47,0.48,0.42,0.43,0.46
"Cairo Performance Demos 2012-01-30 - Demo: Fish",
Higher Results Are Better
"UXA: Unity 6.4",188.59,190.19,192.47
"UXA: KDE SC 4.9",161.26,162.13,160.87
"UXA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",213.28,212.14,212.75
"UXA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",213.49,211.91,216.64
"UXA: Xfce 4.10",208.54,213.49,218.82
"UXA: LXDE 0.5.11",214.8,219.35,219.07
"SNA: Unity 6.4",227.56,231.71,228.58
"SNA: KDE SC 4.9",210.27,211.5,211.87
"SNA: GNOME Shell 3.5.4",262.89,262.25,262.92
"SNA: GNOME Classic 3.5.5",297.39,296.88,297.1
"SNA: Xfce 4.10",291.28,296.46,296.83
"SNA: LXDE 0.5.11",293.5,299.25,297.17