kde5 vs kde4 Running pts/lightsmark-1.2.0, pts/openarena-1.5.2, pts/gputest-1.3.0 via the Phoronix Test Suite. kde5 kwin on: Processor: Intel Core i5-3330 @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock H61M-ITX, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 160GB SAMSUNG HD161HJ + 60GB SPCC Solid State + 320GB SAMSUNG HD321KJ, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7790/8770 2048MB (1050/1500MHz), Audio: Intel 6 /C200, Monitor: H225W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: openSUSE 13.1, Kernel: 3.15.0-rc3-14-desktop+ (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.15.99.902 (1.16.0 RC 2), Display Driver: radeon 7.3.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.1 + Clang 3.5.0 + LLVM 3.5.0svn, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 kde5 kwin off: Processor: Intel Core i5-3330 @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock H61M-ITX, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 160GB SAMSUNG HD161HJ + 60GB SPCC Solid State + 320GB SAMSUNG HD321KJ, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7790/8770 2048MB (1050/1500MHz), Audio: Intel 6 /C200, Monitor: H225W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: openSUSE 13.1, Kernel: 3.15.0-rc3-14-desktop+ (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.15.99.902 (1.16.0 RC 2), Display Driver: radeon 7.3.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.1 + Clang 3.5.0 + LLVM 3.5.0svn, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 kde4 kwin on: Processor: Intel Core i5-3330 @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock H61M-ITX, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 160GB SAMSUNG HD161HJ + 60GB SPCC Solid State + 320GB SAMSUNG HD321KJ, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7790/8770 2048MB (1050/1500MHz), Audio: Intel 6 /C200, Monitor: H225W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: openSUSE 13.1, Kernel: 3.15.0-rc3-14-desktop+ (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.13.0, Display Server: X Server 1.15.99.902 (1.16.0 RC 2), Display Driver: radeon 7.3.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.1 + Clang 3.5.0 + LLVM 3.5.0svn, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 kde4 kwin off: Processor: Intel Core i5-3330 @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock H61M-ITX, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 160GB SAMSUNG HD161HJ + 60GB SPCC Solid State + 320GB SAMSUNG HD321KJ, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7790/8770 2048MB (1050/1500MHz), Audio: Intel 6 /C200, Monitor: H225W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: openSUSE 13.1, Kernel: 3.15.0-rc3-14-desktop+ (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.13.0, Display Server: X Server 1.15.99.902 (1.16.0 RC 2), Display Driver: radeon 7.3.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.1 + Clang 3.5.0 + LLVM 3.5.0svn, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better kde5 kwin on .. MIN: 2.0 AVG: 6.9 MAX: 32.0 kde5 kwin off . MIN: 3.0 AVG: 6.7 MAX: 32.0 kde4 kwin on .. MIN: 2.0 AVG: 6.7 MAX: 31.0 kde4 kwin off . MIN: 2.0 AVG: 6.6 MAX: 31.0 Lightsmark 2008 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better kde5 kwin on .. 295.71 |==================================== kde5 kwin off . 308.15 |===================================== kde4 kwin on .. 437.39 |===================================================== kde4 kwin off . 457.09 |======================================================= OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better kde5 kwin on .. 144.57 |===================================================== kde5 kwin off . 148.47 |====================================================== kde4 kwin on .. 148.13 |====================================================== kde4 kwin off . 151.10 |======================================================= GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better kde5 kwin on .. 1668 |========================================================= kde5 kwin off . 1678 |========================================================= kde4 kwin on .. 1665 |========================================================= kde4 kwin off . 1677 |=========================================================