gtx970 AMD Athlon X4 860K Quad Core testing with a MSI A88XM GAMING (MS-7903) v1.0 and Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB on Ubuntu 15.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. gtx970: Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Pro4, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 840 + 320GB Seagate ST3320620AS, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (1189/3505MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Network: Intel Connection OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.2.5-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Driver: NVIDIA 355.11, OpenGL: 4.4.0, Compiler: GCC 5.2.0 + LLVM 3.7.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x1200 eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970: Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Pro4, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 840 + 320GB Seagate ST3320620AS, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (1189/3505MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Network: Intel Connection OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.2.5-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Driver: NVIDIA 355.11, OpenGL: 4.4.0, Compiler: GCC 5.2.0 + LLVM 3.7.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x1200 AMD Athlon X4 860K: Processor: AMD Athlon X4 860K Quad Core @ 4.19GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI A88XM GAMING (MS-7903) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 128GB OCZ VERTEX4 + 960GB SanDisk SDSSDHII, Graphics: Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (1227/3600MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 355.11, OpenGL: 4.4.0, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: f2fs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1200 - Mode: Windowed Points > Higher Is Better gtx970 ............. 4593 |============================================= AMD Athlon X4 860K . 5253 |==================================================== Metro 2033 Redux Phoronix Test Suite v5.8.1 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 62.70 |==========================================