avicheckitout Intel Core i7-4702HQ testing with a Dell XPS 15 9530 and Intel 4th Gen Core IGP on Ubuntu 13.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. idunno: Processor: Intel Core i7-4702HQ @ 2.20GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Dell XPS 15 9530, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WD10SPCX-75H + 32GB Micron C400 Real, Graphics: Intel 4th Gen Core IGP, Audio: Intel Haswell HDMI, Network: Intel Wireless 7260 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.11.3, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: intel 2.99.904, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.2.1, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3200x1800 Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better idunno . 5.99 |================================================================ FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better idunno . 5.56 |================================================================ LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better idunno . 15.10 |=============================================================== WavPack Audio Encoding 4.41.0 WAV To WavPack Seconds < Lower Is Better idunno . 10.45 |===============================================================