Think your graphics card is hot? Think again...

[3rdalbum]

85 degrees at idle is frickin' hot. My 8600 idles at 49 degrees AND it's passively cooled too.

Hmm... lots of people with 8600s here; the benchmark makes me want to buy a GTX260 or an HD4870

[overdrank]

Unigine Tropics:
1440 x 900

10.9357 Frames Per Second

Average: 10.93 Frames Per Second
Nvidia 6800 GT

[3rdalbum]

8600GT with 256mb of memory onboard. CPU is an E6450, I think - it's the 65nm Core 2 Duo at 3 GHz. I've got it overclocked to 3.34 GHz.

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Unigine Tropics:
1280 x 1024

10.6648 Frames Per Second

Average: 10.66 Frames Per Second
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The test appears to not take advantage of multiple CPU cores, unfortunately, but I'm quite impressed with my test results for such a shabby card.

[KillerSponge]

C2D E8400, 4GB memory, 8800GT:

Unigine Tropics:
1440 x 900

35.2093 Frames Per Second

Average: 35.20 Frames Per Second

I must say the engine performs rather bad for the quality of the graphics, I was quite disappointed to be honest. Most modern games look a lot better AND peform 75-100% better.

[fatality_uk]

Real result
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Unigine Tropics (Run 1 of 1)
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FPS: 63.1898

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Unigine Tropics:
1440 x 900

63.1898 Frames Per Second

Average: 63.18 Frames Per Second
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The island fly around is pretty cool.
I think the sunset in this demo is 100% better than the sun in Crysis. I would go so far as to say that this demo is very close to or even better in places than Crysis Loved it.

[fatality_uk]

I just wanted to jump into that demo and start playing!!! Someone release a Linux only game with that PLEASE


Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (Total Cores: 4), Motherboard: Dell Inspiron 530, Chipset: Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31, System Memory: 2025MB, Disk Space: 290GB, Graphics: GeForce 8800 GT 1024MB (600/900MHz), Screen Resolution: 1280x1024

[BlackLLama]

i scoreed 33.17 fps, Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5600+ @ 2.80GHz (Total Cores: 2), Motherboard: alienware alienware, Chipset: nVidia MCP55, System Memory: 2014MB, Graphics: GeForce 8800 GTX, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050

[phoronix]

If you want to see how hot your graphics card gets, run:

MONITOR=all phoronix-test-suite benchmark unigine-tropics

And at the end it will plot on a line graph how hot your system components got during testing

[MaxIBoy]

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Unigine Tropics (Run 1 of 1)
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FPS:	47.7302

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Unigine Tropics:
1440 x 900

47.7302 Frames Per Second

Average: 47.73 Frames Per Second
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Note: The test(s) don't match: unigine-tropics - vadi-28416-17373-7833.
Not all test results may be compatible.
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Results Saved To: /home/maxtothemax/.phoronix-test-suite/test-results/vadi-28416-17373-7833/composite.xml

Then I discovered that there was a catch-all "gaming" test suite:
[results to be edited in later]

[balanovich]

I got 29.03 Frames Per Second
with a 8600GTS 512 mb. AMD 5600+ (2.8GHz) M2a-vm hdmi and 2 gigs of ram (800MHz)
screen resolution 1440x900