T430 - integrated vs dedicated - cpu trying to compare my cpu to another integrated - nouveau: Processor: Intel Core i5-3360M @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 2350BG4, Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB HGST HTS725050A7, Graphics: NVIDIA GF108M [NVS 5400M] 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC3202, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-36-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.0.6 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: aufs, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 desktop: Processor: Intel Core i5-3570 @ 4.00GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V LX, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-9YN1 + 320GB Seagate ST3320311CS + 250GB Seagate ST3250823AS + 160GB SAMSUNG SP1614C, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.11.6-3-ARCH (x86_64), Vulkan: 1.0.42, Compiler: GCC 7.1.1 20170621, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 dedicated - nvidia: Processor: Intel Core i5-3360M @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 2350BG4, Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB HGST HTS725050A7, Graphics: NVS 5400M 1024MB (135/405MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC3202, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-36-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Driver: NVIDIA 375.66, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 comp: Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 2.70GHz (2 Cores / 4 Threads), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Chipset: Apple SSD, Memory: 2 x 4 GB DDR3-1867MHz, Disk: 121GB APPLE SSD SM0128G, Graphics: Intel Iris 6100 2GB, Monitor: C OS: macOS 10.14.6, Kernel: 18.7.0 (x86_64), Compiler: Apple LLVM 10.0.1 (clang-1001.0.46.4) + GCC 4.2.1, File-System: APFS, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 CacheBench Test: Read / Modify / Write MB/s > Higher Is Better integrated - nouveau . 26243.14 |========================================= desktop .............. 29688.97 |============================================== dedicated - nvidia ... 26209.26 |========================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better integrated - nouveau . 1128.96 |===================================== desktop .............. 1419.66 |=============================================== dedicated - nvidia ... 1109.19 |===================================== comp ................. 1323.42 |============================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better integrated - nouveau . 473.23 |====================================== desktop .............. 602.20 |================================================ dedicated - nvidia ... 475.82 |====================================== comp ................. 586.93 |=============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better integrated - nouveau . 234.94 |===================================== desktop .............. 306.69 |================================================ dedicated - nvidia ... 220.73 |=================================== comp ................. 262.55 |========================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better integrated - nouveau . 1958.36 |====================================== desktop .............. 2427.84 |=============================================== dedicated - nvidia ... 1928.23 |===================================== comp ................. 1723.12 |================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better integrated - nouveau . 1927.52 |==================================== desktop .............. 2518.07 |=============================================== dedicated - nvidia ... 1872.18 |=================================== comp ................. 2503.50 |=============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better integrated - nouveau . 1050.74 |================================ desktop .............. 1243.50 |====================================== dedicated - nvidia ... 1048.97 |================================ comp ................. 1541.00 |=============================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better integrated - nouveau . 10134 |============================ desktop .............. 17894 |================================================= dedicated - nvidia ... 10063 |============================ comp ................. 9297 |========================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better integrated - nouveau . 339.47 |================================================ desktop .............. 181.77 |========================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better integrated - nouveau . 66.53 |============================================= desktop .............. 29.77 |==================== comp ................. 72.22 |================================================= Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better integrated - nouveau . 13.34 |================================================= desktop .............. 10.84 |======================================== dedicated - nvidia ... 13.43 |================================================= comp ................. 10.20 |===================================== Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better integrated - nouveau . 81.55 |================================================= desktop .............. 65.02 |=======================================