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.
First check if the games are using the GPU. I had an issue where everything would launch with integrated graphics only.
Actually, the computer only has integrated graphics because it’s a laptop.
My laptop has two graphics cards lol but I totally get what you meant
What? How large is you laptop?? When you say “two graphics cards”, do you mean two GPUs or two full boards?
It’s pretty common for a laptop to have a dedicated gpu, plus the integrated gpu that’s actually part of the cpu.
Do they make laptops that have two GPUs or are you using an external GPU?
https://superuser.com/questions/908824/why-does-my-laptop-have-two-graphics-cards
It’s not uncommon. The main use is running the powerful GPU only in games and such, while using the other one the rest of the time, to reduce power consumption, heat and noise.
See also Nvidia Optimus:
Bought a laptop with two pre built. Dedicated and a 1080ti it’s not amazing but it does what I need it to do lol
I use the unigine benchmarks sometimes. unigine-heaven and unigine-superposition (which btw is just cool to watch in my opinion). They provide linux packages here https://benchmark.unigine.com/ , check your distributions repos too though, some include these too though it’s rare. They are not open source, but games usually aren’t either.
The phoronix one that someone else posted also looks cool, I’ll have to try that one out next time I need something like this.
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.
Did you gave execution permission to the file?
chmod +x yourfile.run
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.
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?
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
Honestly your best bet is probably to use a game with a built-in benchmark over Steam. That way you get numbers that are somewhat comparable to the ones from public sources (game review sites/videos).
I don’t know why there isn’t a proper tool like 3DMark for Linux systems.When you say “built-in benchmark over Steam” what does that mean? If that is a common thing, I have a steam account but I’ve never really used it before as I get pretty much all of my games from itch.
Sorry, what I really meant was over Proton. So, installing a game like Shadow of the Tomb Raider that have a built-in benchmark and run it via Proton.
Oh ok, but on top of the fact that I can’t run that game, I don’t really need help anymore. I’ve already determined that I’m pretty sure that my GPU is having hardware problems.
I use this, but more as a stress test instead of actually checking performance. https://www.geeks3d.com/gputest/
Ok, I tried that but is it just supposed to display a triangle? It also didn’t have a GUI, is that only in the MacOS version of the app or am I supposed to run the .py file? If I’m to run the .py file, that is something I don’t know how to do.
There’s a bunch of benchmarks you can run apart from the triangle, like Furmark which render a more complex scene. I’ve only used the shell scripts, no idea what the python script does.
Forcing Cyberpunk to abnormal resolutions with (I honestly forgot the command name – haven’t used it since a while). That’ll make your GPU cry a bit.
you can run furmark in wine if you’re trying to compare with windows performance
