Ubuntu 12.04 Desktops Impact Performance, Power Consumption
Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 11 April 2012 at 03:00 AM EDT. Page 3 of 8. 24 Comments.
The OpenGL performance with Lightsmark was the same story as in the previous two tests, but this time the power consumption was closer to the same with this more demanding OpenGL graphics benchmark.
Of course, outside of the visual benchmarks with the computationally intensive tests you'll find about the same level of performance regardless of desktop environment / window manager with modern hardware.