ubermaki A Graphics comparison via the Phoronix Test Suite. msi gt72 a: Processor: Intel Core i7-4710HQ @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI MS-1781, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Memory: 28672MB, Disk: 128GB KINGSTON RBU-SNS + 1000GB HGST HTS721010A9 + 500GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 6144MB (683/810MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit + Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-14-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 352.41, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151003, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 msi gt72 tlkt: Processor: Intel Core i7-4710HQ @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI MS-1781, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Memory: 28672MB, Disk: 128GB KINGSTON RBU-SNS + 1000GB HGST HTS721010A9 + 500GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 6144MB (1037/1598MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit + Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-14-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 352.41, OpenGL: 4.4.0, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151003, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 mi1_blk_20151213: Processor: Intel Core i7-4710HQ @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI MS-1781, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Memory: 28672MB, Disk: 128GB KINGSTON RBU-SNS + 3 x 500GB Samsung SSD 850 + 1000GB HGST HTS721010A9, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit + Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-19-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.2, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GLmark2 276 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Score > Higher Is Better msi gt72 a . 3476 |============================================================ Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.18-rc6 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better msi gt72 tlkt . 120.56 |======================================================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better mi1_blk_20151213 . 130.15 |====================================================