Benchmark utilities

glxgears

On the page R330 Benchmark in the DRI Wiki it mentions Quake 3 as a benchmark.
Since it's not a free game I'd suggest trying some free games that offer displaying the FPS, like VDrift.

I think games are a better benchmark than GLXGears because they work harder on the GPU.

Well Open Arena comes to mind then. I just need to see how to enable FPS showing in it. Nexuiz would probably be even better. Pity it segfaults on my machine as soon as I start walking around, picking up a weapon or start shooting. :\

About glxgears, the fact that there exist an option for it that goes like this; -iacknowledgethatthistoolisnotabenchmark proves just how much X.org hackers care to tell you that glxgears is NOT a benchmark. It has FPS disabled by default and the way to get it to show is either by the above option (it really works) or simply -printfps.

In case you are interested, here's some websites about benchmarking.

http://www.tux.org/~mayer/linux/bmark.html (Linux/Unix nbench)
http://www.nobell.org/~gjm/linux/benchmark.html (Linux Benchmark Notes)
http://kernel-perf.sourceforge.net/ (Linux Kernel Performance)

Sheng-Chieh

Thanks shengchieh. I'll check it out.