Questions tagged [benchmarks]

Benchmarks are tests used to measure performance, typically that of hardware like graphics cards.

Benchmarks are typically implemented by computation-heavy programs designed specifically for testing and comparing hardware performance.

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How to perform a detailed and quick 3D performance test

I am wondering how to quickly test performance of my 3D graphics. Since glxgears is not benchmark what should I use. Also glxgears sometimes stuck at 60FPS, you cannot even compare before/after driver update (e.g. adding xorg-edgers PPA). Even…
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Benchmarking of USB flash drive

I will appreciate if you can tell me some tools for ubuntu 14.04 LTS, that can measure transfer speed of USB flash drive. I need two or more programs to compare the results and if I can choose the size of the file that would be great.
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What performance differences are there when installing with Wubi?

I know that Wubi is slower in disk IO, but I can't find anything about it online other than vague statements such as "slightly slower disk seeks". Has anyone done any benchmarks to quantify the speed difference?
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Running a simulation on pure Ubuntu vs on Ubuntu in Windows (WSL)

I would like to ask a question about testing a large CAE simulation on the same computer in the following two situations. Pure Ubuntu system Ubuntu system in Windows 10 (WSL) Are the calculation speeds in both cases almost the same or are they…
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Is there a command-line equivalent to gnome-disks?

Gnome Disks (gnome-disks - formerly known as palimpsest) provides SMART and some benchmarking information. From what I gather, it used to be based on a command-line tool udisks but these projects appear to have merged. The new Gnome Disks utility…
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Why does vblank_mode improve framerate drastically in benchmarks?

I am messing around trying to find the best graphics solution for my Laptop with Optimus Nvidia. (ASUS K55VD) I've got bumblebeed running and i use optirun when i want to improve graphics performance. The only problem is that i dont know if it is…
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Are there concrete figures on the speed of bash vs dash?

According to this article, dash was chosen as /bin/sh because bash is slower: Dash as /bin/sh Are there concrete figures for how much faster dash is? How much longer does it take if you use bash instead of dash to boot Ubuntu? Do the arguments of…
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How can I run glmark2 on the dedicated GPU?

My laptop has a dedicated GPU, it is an AMD Radeon HD 6300. How can I test it with glmark2? By default it is using the iGPU. glmark2 man page doesn't show an option to choose the dGPU.
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How to see how many FPS can a video card render and Benchmark video card

Am looking for ways to benchmark how many FPS can a video card render. For the moment I only know about glxgears which comes with the package mesa-utils: What other tools can I use to benchmark or see how many FPS can a video card render. NOTE - In…
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Is there a 3dmark for ubuntu

I don't want this to test my gpu I would only like one to have on my big monitor playing and I don't know if I can get 3dmark for ubuntu
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Disabling AMD's equivalent (on a Zen-1 Epyc) of Intel's "turbo boost" at runtime?

This may be a terminology problem at my end and a duplicate: On Intel CPUs, I can relatively easy disable turbo boost at runtime by running something like echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo The CPU then runs at its base clock…
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How can I test the system footprint of applications?

I am about to start my masters project and I will need to gather some data, for the requirements stage, about the performance footprint applications have on my system. The main things I am look for are load times, memory and CPU usage and shutdown…
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Benchmarking a GPU on a node with no display or monitor

How can I benchmark a GPU on a machine that has no display connected to it? I am provisioning VMs with different types of GPUs. I want to benchmark the GPUs in order to compare them. But they're (remote) VMs. There's no display. I tried for example…
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Can you run Compute Benchmark (GPU) using Geekbench 5 on 20.04?

I would like to benchmark test my CPU and GPU. I have installed GB5 and successfully run the CPU testing from the command line using ./geekbench5. I was wondering if I could also run the GPU testing on the PC. ./geekbench5 --help Geekbench 5.3.2…
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USB Drive speed testing app with test options

I know there is a benchmark in the Disk Utility app, but I need something with a few more options. Some of my USB Drives are exhibiting weird results which may be due to testing patterns etc, so some test options would really help me out (chunk…
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