results Intel Core i7-3770 testing with a Gigabyte H77M-D3H (F14 BIOS) and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB on Ubuntu 18.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770 @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Gigabyte H77M-D3H (F14 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 850 + 1000GB Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 + 2000GB Western Digital WD2001FFSX-6, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB (135/324MHz), Audio: VIA VT2020, Network: Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 18.10, Kernel: 4.18.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 390.87, Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 new driver: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770 @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Gigabyte H77M-D3H (F14 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 850 + 1000GB Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 + 2000GB Western Digital WD2001FFSX-6, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB (1050/3505MHz), Audio: VIA VT2020, Monitor: 2460G4, Network: Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 18.10, Kernel: 4.18.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 410.78, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 800 x 600 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 381 |=========================================== new driver .................. 388 |============================================ OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 800 x 600 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 2.6 MAX: 10.0 new driver .................. MIN: 1.0 AVG: 2.6 MAX: 10.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 800 x 600 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 337 |============================================ new driver .................. 336 |============================================ Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 800 x 600 - Mode: Windowed - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 91.55 |========================================= new driver .................. 92.86 |========================================== Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 800 x 600 - Mode: Fullscreen - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 95.33 |========================================= new driver .................. 97.78 |========================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 800 x 600 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 330 |============================================ new driver .................. 333 |============================================ GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 800 x 600 - Mode: Windowed Points > Higher Is Better eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 10880 |========================================== new driver .................. 10838 |========================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 800 x 600 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 4380 |=========================================== new driver .................. 4414 |===========================================