Default Test Intel Core i5-4670K testing with a MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) v1.0 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB on Ubuntu 17.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970: Processor: Intel Core i5-4670K @ 4.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) v1.0, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 240GB SSD Smartbuy 240 + 60GB SPCC Solid State + 3001GB TOSHIBA HDWD130 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH1, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (135/324MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit OS: LinuxMint 18.1, Kernel: 4.8.0-45-generic (x86_64), Desktop: MATE 1.16.1, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 378.13, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4 (ecryptfs), Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 lubuntu: Processor: Intel Core i5-4670K @ 4.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) v1.0, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 240GB SSD Smartbuy 240 + 60GB SPCC Solid State + 3001GB TOSHIBA HDWD130 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH1, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (1151/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.10.0-19-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.14.30, Display Server: X Server 1.19.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 381.09, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.42, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406, File-System: ext4 (ecryptfs), Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 476.83 |============================================= lubuntu ................ 482.40 |============================================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 420.80 |============================================== lubuntu ................ 421.92 |============================================== Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Windowed Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 90.81 |=============================================== lubuntu ................ 88.40 |============================================== Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 90.43 |=============================================== lubuntu ................ 84.74 |============================================ Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 272.84 |============================================== lubuntu ................ 259.75 |============================================ GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Windowed Points > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 111029 |============================================== lubuntu ................ 109461 |============================================= GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 100524 |========================================== lubuntu ................ 109790 |============================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 2.1 MAX: 15.0 OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better lubuntu . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 2.1 MAX: 11.0