Core2 GTX560 Unigine Heaven Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 testing with a ASUS Maximus Formula and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 1024MB on arch rolling via the Phoronix Test Suite. Pre-Haswell Core 2 Heaven run: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Maximus Formula, Chipset: Intel 82X38/X48 + ICH9R, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 128GB C300-CTFDDAC128M, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 1024MB (850/2100MHz), Audio: C-Media CMI8788, Network: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit OS: arch rolling, Kernel: 3.9.3-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.3, Display Server: X Server 1.14.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 319.17, Compiler: GCC 4.8.0 20130502, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 Haswell vs. Old Core 2: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Z87-PRO, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 2 x 512GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2048MB (540/3505MHz), Audio: C-Media CMI8788, Network: Intel Connection I217-V OS: arch rolling, Kernel: 3.9.6-zenchuck1 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.4, Display Server: X Server 1.14.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 319.23, Compiler: GCC 4.8.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 Unigine Heaven 4.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1200 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Pre-Haswell Core 2 Heaven run . 22.46 |==================== Haswell vs. Old Core 2 ........ 44.28 |========================================