On my quest to improve performance of the AAO, here’s the last glxgears results:
pizzaman@monsterxx8:~$ glxgears
283 frames in 5.0 seconds
845 frames in 5.0 seconds
885 frames in 5.0 seconds
891 frames in 5.0 seconds
914 frames in 5.0 seconds
913 frames in 5.0 seconds
902 frames in 5.0 seconds
903 frames in 5.0 seconds
937 frames in 5.0 seconds
903 frames in 5.0 seconds
885 frames in 5.0 seconds
826 frames in 5.0 seconds
853 frames in 5.0 seconds
836 frames in 5.0 seconds