qgears Intel Core i3-3220 testing with a MSI MS-AA721 v100 and Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core on Ubuntu 13.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. GNOME-Shell - X.org: Processor: Intel Core i3-3220 @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI MS-AA721 v100, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKX-2, Graphics: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: MSI AIO PC, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168 + Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.10.0-1-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.8.3, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: intel 2.21.9, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.1.3, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 Unity - X.org: Processor: Intel Core i3-3220 @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI MS-AA721 v100, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKX-2, Graphics: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: MSI AIO PC, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.10.0-1-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: intel 2.21.9, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.1.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 Unity - Mir: Processor: Intel Core i3-3220 @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI MS-AA721 v100, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKX-2, Graphics: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.10.0-2-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.0.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.1, Display Driver: intel 2.21.9, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.2.0-devel, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 GNOME-Shell - Mir: Processor: Intel Core i3-3220 @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI MS-AA721 v100, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKX-2, Graphics: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.10.0-2-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.8.3, Display Server: X Server 1.14.1, Display Driver: intel 2.21.9, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.2.0-devel, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 QGears2 Rendering: OpenGL - Test: Image Scaling Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GNOME-Shell - X.org . 689.53 |================================================= Unity - X.org ....... 633.20 |============================================= Unity - Mir ......... 612.85 |============================================ GNOME-Shell - Mir ... 526.86 |=====================================