y500's benchmark Intel Core i5-3210M testing with a LENOVO (6BCN44WWV2.04 BIOS) and NVE7 2048MB on Fedora 29 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Arch: Processor: Intel Core i5-3210M @ 3.10GHz (2 Cores / 4 Threads), Motherboard: LENOVO (6BCN44WWV2.04 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 1000GB CT1000MX500SSD1, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 2GB, Audio: Realtek ALC269VC, Network: Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit + Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230 OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 4.20.6-arch1-1-ARCH (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.20.3, Compiler: GCC 8.2.1 20181127 + LLVM 7.0.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Gentoo: Processor: Intel Core i5-3210M @ 3.10GHz (2 Cores / 4 Threads), Motherboard: LENOVO (6BCN44WWV2.04 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 1000GB CT1000MX500SSD1, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 2GB (789/2000MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC269VC, Network: Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 + Intel Centrino-N 2230 OS: Gentoo/Linux, Kernel: 4.14.83-gentoo (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.20.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 415.27, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0 + LLVM 6.0.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Fedora: Processor: Intel Core i5-3210M @ 3.10GHz (2 Cores / 4 Threads), Motherboard: LENOVO (6BCN44WWV2.04 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 1000GB CT1000MX500SSD1, Graphics: NVE7 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC269VC, Network: Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit + Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230 OS: Fedora 29, Kernel: 4.18.16-300.fc29.x86_64 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.20.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.3, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 18.2.8, Compiler: Clang 7.0.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Arch ... 455 |================================================================= Gentoo . 451 |================================================================ Fedora . 453 |================================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better Arch ... 141 |================================================================= Gentoo . 134 |============================================================== Fedora . 130 |============================================================ Timed MPlayer Compilation 1.0-rc3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Arch ... 2.85 |=========================================================== Gentoo . 3.11 |================================================================ Fedora . 2.51 |====================================================