Test Intel Core i7-3520M testing with a HP 17A7 and AMD Radeon HD 7550M/7570M/7650M 1024MB on Ubuntu 13.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. ssd: Processor: Intel Core i7-3520M @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP 17A7, Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz Samsung, Disk: 256GB MTFDDAK256MAM-1K, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7550M/7570M/7650M 1024MB (500/800MHz), Audio: IDT 92HD81B1X5, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.12.0-031200-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.0.0-devel (git-08122e1 saucy-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 test: Processor: Intel Core i7-3520M @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP 17A7, Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz Samsung, Disk: 256GB MTFDDAK256MAM-1K, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7550M/7570M/7650M 1024MB (500/800MHz), Audio: IDT 92HD81B1X5, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.12.0-031200-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.0.0-devel (git-08122e1 saucy-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better ssd . 243.69 |================================================================= OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better test . 114.67 |================================================================