nouveau Intel Core 2 6600 testing with a ASUS P5B and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 1024MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450: Processor: Intel Core 2 6600 @ 2.79GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P5B, Chipset: Intel 82P965/G965 + ICH8/R, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000AADS-0 + 1000GB Seagate ST31000520AS, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 1024MB (880/750MHz), Audio: Analog Devices AD1988, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-44-generic-pae (i686), Desktop: KDE, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 310.14, OpenGL: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 310.14, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 ET: Quake Wars Demo 1920 x 1200 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 39.97 |=============================================== World of Padman 1.2 1920 x 1200 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 107.20 |============================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 3716.57 |============================================= Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 3635.92 |============================================= Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 4163.78 |============================================= Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 4104.73 |============================================= Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 23.39 |=============================================== TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 291174 |============================================== John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 4136667 |============================================= John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 1315 |================================================ TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2z Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 27.24 |=============================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 65 |================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 41 |================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 39 |================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 63 |================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 793.31 |============================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 3657 |================================================ C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 391.04 |============================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 44.65 |=============================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 605 |================================================= Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 0.02 |================================================ FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 11.74 |=============================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 28.12 |=============================================== POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 903 |================================================= Tachyon 0.98.9 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 88.11 |=============================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 17.80 |=============================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 58.66 |=============================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 . 4346.06 |=============================================