good way to benchmark your video card?

[jdodson]

i got my nvidia card geforce 5700LE 256M the other day in my new computer. it plays ut2004 demo totally fine. i am wondering if anyone knows of a good way to benchmark the card to see if i am getting the desired results.... actually i have no idea what the desired results are. program i could use, website resource?

just wondering.

[mendicant]

For a quick overview, you can run ut2004 and just check out the average frame rate in game by pressing
'~', which pulls down a console, and then type:

stat fps

And it should display on the top right. You can also run this on various standard demos that websites use, and compare your performance to theirs.

[jdodson]

For a quick overview, you can run ut2004 and just check out the average frame rate in game by pressing
'~', which pulls down a console, and then type:

stat fps

And it should display on the top right. You can also run this on various standard demos that websites use, and compare your performance to theirs.

thanks.

[AndersAA]

you could also run quake3/doom3 timedemo's, should be fairly simple to get something to compare it to.

[valadil]

I generally go with glxgears. Probably not the most accurate but it tells me if something is wrong most of the time. I get about 500fps if glx is messed up, 3000 if agpgart isn't working quite right, and 6000-7000 if all is working correctly. This is on a GeForce5900fx btw.

[mendicant]

Also check out:

http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/...p?articleid=40

which tells you how to run the built in benchmarking from the command line.

[Tichondrius]

Another widely used benchmark is Doom 3, which allows you to record and playback a "timedemo" . You can also download pre-recorded timedemos (unzip/untar the demo files, and place them in your ~/.doom3/base/demos directory). To play a demo, enter the doom 3 console by pressing ctrl-shift-~, and type timedemo <demofilename> (e.g. "timedemo trhaze"). btw, to record your own demo, use the command "recorddemo <filename>" and "recorddemo" to stop recording.

btw, for doom 3 the results are somewhat lower than what you get in windows with the same hardware. Did anyone else notice that ?

[Buffalo Soldier]

I generally go with glxgears. Probably not the most accurate but it tells me if something is wrong most of the time. I get about 500fps if glx is messed up, 3000 if agpgart isn't working quite right, and 6000-7000 if all is working correctly. This is on a GeForce5900fx btw.

Ran glxgears. Got around 2800 fps on GeForce2 GTS.

[flygmaskin]

Ran glxgears. Got around 2800 fps on GeForce2 GTS.

Weird, I can't get over ~850fps on my geforce fx5200 (amd 2400+, 768mb ram). Any ideas on what might be wrong?

[dhonn]

btw, for doom 3 the results are somewhat lower than what you get in windows with the same hardware. Did anyone else notice that ?

It could be the video drivers or it could be xwindow networking behavior. Or it could be that ubuntu's kernel has CONFIG_PREEMPT on. Ive heard Linus say that its great for the desktop helps average response times but it lowers performance. Normally everything is scheduled then excuted in a batch every few milliseconds. Windows has the same behavior.

I still think it could be the xwindow and drivers.