xrender-results Intel Core i5-4460 testing with a ASUS H97I-PLUS and MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB on Ubuntu 15.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970: Processor: Intel Core i5-4460 @ 3.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS H97I-PLUS, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850 + 128GB M4-CT128M4SSD2, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (135/324MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-30-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.3, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 352.63, OpenGL: 4.4.0, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 5760x2160 QGears2 XRender + Text Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 241.36 |========================================== QGears2 XRender + Gears Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 268.12 |========================================== QGears2 XRender + Image Scaling Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 1541.52 |========================================= Render Bench Phoronix Test Suite v5.2.1 Seconds < Lower Is Better MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 16.48 |===========================================