Desktop comparison benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.
Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the
Phoronix Test Suite by running the command:
phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1409194-PTS-DESKTOPC90
Ubuntu Linux Desktop Comparison,
"Counter-Strike Source - Resolution: 1920 x 1080",
Higher Results Are Better
"Xfce 4.10",81.73,80.68,81.77
"Unity 7.3.1",59.5,59.5,59.5
"GNOME Shell 3.12.2",16.31,16.72,16.44
"KDE 4.14.0",83.44,82.11,84.74
"LXDE 0.6.2",59.5,59.53,59.5
"Cinnamon 2.2.16",62.48,61.85,61.89
"E17",88.39,87.78,88.25
"OpenArena 0.8.8 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080",
Higher Results Are Better
"Xfce 4.10",34.3,34.1,34.2
"Unity 7.3.1",34.3,34.2,34.3
"GNOME Shell 3.12.2",34.3,34.2,34.3
"KDE 4.14.0",32.3,32.2,32.2
"LXDE 0.6.2",34.1,34.1,34
"Cinnamon 2.2.16",34.4,34.3,34.4
"E17",33,33,33
"OpenArena 0.8.8 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"Xfce 4.10",
"Unity 7.3.1",
"GNOME Shell 3.12.2",
"KDE 4.14.0",
"LXDE 0.6.2",
"Cinnamon 2.2.16",
"E17",
"Tesseract 2014-05-12 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080",
Higher Results Are Better
"Xfce 4.10",36.68913,36.36271,36.30309
"Unity 7.3.1",39.623,39.31605,39.36069
"GNOME Shell 3.12.2",39.60384,39.6109,39.58231
"KDE 4.14.0",36.53175,37.31005,36.84834
"LXDE 0.6.2",39.83106,39.5979,39.47308
"Cinnamon 2.2.16",39.69641,39.58947,39.53294
"E17",37.96709,37.49931,37.37963
"Team Fortress 2 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080",
Higher Results Are Better
"Xfce 4.10",52.3,52.19,51.83
"Unity 7.3.1",54.55,54.38,54.5
"GNOME Shell 3.12.2",16.36,16.18,16.17
"KDE 4.14.0",54.33,54.42,53.96
"LXDE 0.6.2",54.9,54.63,55.07
"Cinnamon 2.2.16",54.41,54.21,54.13
"E17",15.91,15.97,15.97
"Unigine Sanctuary 2.3 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080",
Higher Results Are Better
"Xfce 4.10",14.4184,14.4255,14.384
"Unity 7.3.1",14.4216,14.4168,14.4209
"GNOME Shell 3.12.2",14.4162,14.4265,14.4166
"KDE 4.14.0",14.0721,14.0852,14.0847
"LXDE 0.6.2",14.4195,14.4262,14.414
"Cinnamon 2.2.16",14.4193,14.3874,14.3844
"E17",14.1585,11.8519,9.06822,9.0434,9.0788,9.09137
"Warsow 1.51 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080",
Higher Results Are Better
"Xfce 4.10",30.2,30.6,30.3
"Unity 7.3.1",33.2,33.2,33
"GNOME Shell 3.12.2",32.9,33.5,33.2
"KDE 4.14.0",30.7,30.7,30.8
"LXDE 0.6.2",33.7,33.4,33.5
"Cinnamon 2.2.16",32.9,33,32.9
"E17",31.4,31.4,31.4
"Xonotic 0.7 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low",
Higher Results Are Better
"Xfce 4.10",59.831227,59.8199475,59.8316425
"Unity 7.3.1",59.8179514,59.8413845,59.8535471
"GNOME Shell 3.12.2",59.8089446,59.8423212,59.8309674
"KDE 4.14.0",153.4310735,151.9963283,150.7020306
"LXDE 0.6.2",59.8378566,59.8309602,59.7855103
"Cinnamon 2.2.16",59.7399402,59.8200394,59.843815
"E17",160.2007844,159.3658772,158.2914572
"Xonotic 0.7 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High",
Higher Results Are Better
"Xfce 4.10",58.9040876,58.9262211,58.9100217
"Unity 7.3.1",58.9051297,58.050826,58.5635231
"GNOME Shell 3.12.2",58.8546096,58.9158968,58.8274923
"KDE 4.14.0",70.3007724,71.0399682,70.6083138
"LXDE 0.6.2",58.8545197,58.8830637,58.8725857
"Cinnamon 2.2.16",58.8290675,58.7971416,58.8715809
"E17",74.3620733,74.00559,73.8839166
"Xonotic 0.7 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra",
Higher Results Are Better
"Xfce 4.10",55.027377,55.0083853,54.9797058
"Unity 7.3.1",55.3106953,56.6034926,55.0561299
"GNOME Shell 3.12.2",54.7699747,54.9889105,54.7931805
"KDE 4.14.0",55.359064,55.5210074,54.2176224
"LXDE 0.6.2",54.8838466,55.1595457,55.0255229
"Cinnamon 2.2.16",54.8892769,54.7957138,54.8809194
"E17",56.8682296,55.7424093,54.5097682