Nvidia AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core testing with a ASRock 990FX Extreme4 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 896MB on Ubuntu 12.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260: Processor: AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Extreme4, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 1000GB Hitachi HDT72101, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 896MB (626/1053MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Broadcom NetLink BCM57781 Gigabit PCIe OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-19-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.12.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.51, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 304.51, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext3, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 le gtx260: Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @ 3.32GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P6T, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 640GB Western Digital WD6401AALS-0 + 2000GB Western Digital WD2002FAEX-0, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 896MB (680/1250MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1200, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-21-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.10.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.51, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 304.51, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Unigine Heaven 3.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 . 24.63 |=========================================== le gtx260 .............. 27.11 |===============================================