[arch-general] Benchmarks (GUI)
Anyone know of some reliable benchmark utilities I can use to evaluate display cards? and different drivers (mostly Nvidia on KDE 4.5). I know I can install some 3D game or demo and compare FPS, but I need something more focused on basic desktop experience; and must be repeatable with some form of formatted results. I know KDE had a benchmarking suite way back, can't seem to find it? Manne
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 04:32:26PM +0200, Manne Merak wrote:
Anyone know of some reliable benchmark utilities I can use to evaluate display cards? and different drivers (mostly Nvidia on KDE 4.5). You can try glxgears for a start. Or Phoronix Test Suite.
-- Li Ian-Xue http://b4283.ath.cx
On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 22:34 +0800, Ian-Xue Li wrote:
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 04:32:26PM +0200, Manne Merak wrote:
Anyone know of some reliable benchmark utilities I can use to evaluate display cards? and different drivers (mostly Nvidia on KDE 4.5). You can try glxgears for a start. Or Phoronix Test Suite.
glxgears is not a benchmark and shouldn't be used for that purpose at all.
I usually just run gtkperf. I haven't tried PTS yet but it's hard for me to trust anything that comes out of Phoronix.
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Jeff Cook <jeff@deserettechnology.com>wrote:
I usually just run gtkperf. I haven't tried PTS yet but it's hard for me to trust anything that comes out of Phoronix.
Please explain ? -- Cédric Girard
2010/10/11 Cédric Girard <girard.cedric@gmail.com>:
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Jeff Cook <jeff@deserettechnology.com>wrote:
I usually just run gtkperf. I haven't tried PTS yet but it's hard for me to trust anything that comes out of Phoronix.
Please explain ?
Phoronix is just really unprofessional and unreliable as a media outlet. They constantly post information that is first of all, absolutely atrociously, sometimes incomprehensibly written, and secondly often inaccurate and misrepresentative. They also use amateur reporting practices and lack standards, as we see with their Steam reporting and sending lots of traffic to Valve FTP servers not intended for public usage (for one example). Obviously this does not necessarily reflect directly on their software, but I think it's wise to take anything from Phoronix with a grain of salt. From Jeff
-- Cédric Girard
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Jeff Cook <jeff@deserettechnology.com>wrote:
2010/10/11 Cédric Girard <girard.cedric@gmail.com>:
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Jeff Cook <jeff@deserettechnology.com wrote:
I usually just run gtkperf. I haven't tried PTS yet but it's hard for me to trust anything that comes out of Phoronix.
Please explain ?
Phoronix is just really unprofessional and unreliable as a media outlet. They constantly post information that is first of all, absolutely atrociously, sometimes incomprehensibly written, and secondly often inaccurate and misrepresentative. They also use amateur reporting practices and lack standards, as we see with their Steam reporting and sending lots of traffic to Valve FTP servers not intended for public usage (for one example).
Obviously this does not necessarily reflect directly on their software, but I think it's wise to take anything from Phoronix with a grain of salt.
From Jeff
-- Cédric Girard
Thanks for the clarification. -- Cédric Girard
On 10/11/2010 02:03 PM, Cédric Girard wrote:
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Jeff Cook<jeff@deserettechnology.com>wrote:
2010/10/11 Cédric Girard<girard.cedric@gmail.com>:
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Jeff Cook<jeff@deserettechnology.com wrote:
I usually just run gtkperf. I haven't tried PTS yet but it's hard for me to trust anything that comes out of Phoronix.
Please explain ? Phoronix is just really unprofessional and unreliable as a media outlet. They constantly post information that is first of all, absolutely atrociously, sometimes incomprehensibly written, and secondly often inaccurate and misrepresentative. They also use amateur reporting practices and lack standards, as we see with their Steam reporting and sending lots of traffic to Valve FTP servers not intended for public usage (for one example).
Obviously this does not necessarily reflect directly on their software, but I think it's wise to take anything from Phoronix with a grain of salt.
From Jeff
-- Cédric Girard
Thanks for the clarification.
I have no opinion towards them, but just want to add that the their test suite mostly just run other tests (as x11perf or gtkperf) and report the results in a structured way. So I do not think they have actually written any benchmarks (I think?) On gtkperf, anything similar for Qt? Manne
On 8 October 2010 16:32, Manne Merak <mannemerak@gmail.com> wrote:
Anyone know of some reliable benchmark utilities I can use to evaluate display cards? and different drivers (mostly Nvidia on KDE 4.5). I know I can install some 3D game or demo and compare FPS, but I need something more focused on basic desktop experience; and must be repeatable with some form of formatted results. I know KDE had a benchmarking suite way back, can't seem to find it?
Manne
Phoronix Test Suite.
On 10/08/2010 04:35 PM, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote:
On 8 October 2010 16:32, Manne Merak<mannemerak@gmail.com> wrote:
Anyone know of some reliable benchmark utilities I can use to evaluate display cards? and different drivers (mostly Nvidia on KDE 4.5). I know I can install some 3D game or demo and compare FPS, but I need something more focused on basic desktop experience; and must be repeatable with some form of formatted results. I know KDE had a benchmarking suite way back, can't seem to find it?
Manne
Phoronix Test Suite.
Thanks, I tried getting it to work a while back. Will try again.
On 10/08/2010 04:35 PM, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote:
On 8 October 2010 16:32, Manne Merak<mannemerak@gmail.com> wrote:
Anyone know of some reliable benchmark utilities I can use to evaluate display cards? and different drivers (mostly Nvidia on KDE 4.5). I know I can install some 3D game or demo and compare FPS, but I need something more focused on basic desktop experience; and must be repeatable with some form of formatted results. I know KDE had a benchmarking suite way back, can't seem to find it?
Manne
Phoronix Test Suite.
Ok, sorry, should have searched the Arch site first. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Benchmarking Phoronix Test Suite is available in [community]
Phoronix Suite perhaps? Don't know what it uses for graphics test or if it even works on Arch. Benchmarks are lacking for Linux. On Oct 8, 2010 10:29 AM, "Manne Merak" <mannemerak@gmail.com> wrote:
Anyone know of some reliable benchmark utilities I can use to evaluate display cards? and different drivers (mostly Nvidia on KDE 4.5). I know I can install some 3D game or demo and compare FPS, but I need something more focused on basic desktop experience; and must be repeatable with some form of formatted results. I know KDE had a benchmarking suite way back, can't seem to find it?
Manne
participants (7)
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Cédric Girard
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Ian-Xue Li
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Jan de Groot
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Jeff Cook
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Lukáš Jirkovský
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Manne Merak
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Robert Howard