Early Benchmarks Of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS vs. 14.04 LTS
Xonotic further showed no major performance improvements anymore for the HD Graphics 3000 when moving from Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS to Ubuntu 14.04.
When running HPC Challenge with the default CFLAGS of each platform, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on the GCC 4.8 compiler was running much faster than Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on the same system with its GCC 4.6 compiler.