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What is a good way to benchmark test a GPU in Linux? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Edit: I was able to run some benchmark tests, so I don't need help with this anymore, but after running the tests, I'm pretty sure my computer is having hardware issues. I don't really have any other options, though, so I just have to deal with it.

The computer I was using stopped working and I had to switch to a different computer but despite having a significantly better GPU, games are performing only slightly better. I want to benchmark test the GPU to see if it's a potential hardware problem or if something else is causing a bottleneck.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried to download unigine but I can't seem to figure out how to download it. I'm using Linux Mint and the only download option seems to be a .run file which doesn't seem to be executable in Mint. I also don't know how to look through the repositories and when I tried to install "unigine-heaven" in apt, it told me it couldn't find it in the repositories. So unless it's called something else when you install it through apt, I don't know how to download it.

Also, I did look into Phoronix but it only mentions that it benchmarks CPUs and not GPUs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did you gave execution permission to the file?

chmod +x yourfile.run

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll have to tell you later, I'm trying to re-download it but it seems like my ISP is throttling my internet connection because Firefox is telling me that it's going to take an hour and a half to download, even though the first time only took a few minutes to download.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok that worked, as it turns out, the problem was that I've never used a .run file before and, at least from what I can tell, .run files are similar to .sh files.

Anyways, I've never really done benchmark tests before but I did play around with it a little. The settings I used was low graphics, full screened to the custom resolution of 1360x768 (the resolution of the monitor I use) and everything else was disabled. The frame rate ranged from 12 to 26 (or at least somewhere around that), does that seem good for an AMD Radeon R2 Graphics?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

does that seem good for an AMD Radeon R2 Graphics?

about this I actually cannot help you, I understand almost nothing about this kind of benchmark, sorry