ecco Intel Core i7-3540M testing with a Sony VAIO and Intel Ivybridge Mobile on Gentoo via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Ivybridge Mobile: Processor: Intel Core i7-3540M @ 3.00GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Sony VAIO, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 750GB Hitachi HTS72757, Graphics: Intel Ivybridge Mobile (1300MHz) OS: Gentoo, Kernel: 3.8.13-gentoo (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: intel 2.99.905, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.2.2, Compiler: GCC 4.7.3 + Clang 3.3 + LLVM 3.3 + CUDA 5.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 QGears2 XRender + Text Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Ivybridge Mobile . 220.30 |============================================== QGears2 XRender + Gears Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Ivybridge Mobile . 213.45 |============================================== QGears2 XRender + Image Scaling Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Ivybridge Mobile . 672.26 |============================================== Render Bench Phoronix Test Suite v4.8.2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Ivybridge Mobile . 17.97 |===============================================