Nice -n -19 sh -c 'glxgears& sleep 30 kill $!' If you'd like to try this, the following commands will do it. While this will generate higher numbers, it probably doesn't reflect how your system is used in the real world. It has been suggested that running it at a higher priority will be more accurate. Note 4: The above script will run glxgears at the default priority on your system. Looks over your results and if you see some information missing that's in all the other results reported in the table below, try to look it up manually and include it. Note 3: Occasionally some distros don't report everything properly. Don't worry about it, just send us the output. Note 2: on recent versions of X.Org (7.2 and newer) xdpyinfo reports the XServer version instead of the X.Org version. Note 1: on newer versions of glxgears, it may be necessary to add -printfps to get the FPS number.
If you are using a proprietary driver your results will not be helpful to us.
Please note that we are only interested in the results produced by Free Software or Open Source Software. Otherwise, you can email them to me and I'll add them. If you're familiar with Wiki syntax, feel free to create an account and add your results directly to the table below. The goal is to keep the list sorted in descending order by performance based on the glxgears FPS rating. You can help by running this script on your hardware and reporting the results in the table below. Vblank_mode=0 glxgears & sleep 30 killall glxgears Glxinfo | egrep -A2 "direct rendering|OpenGL vendor" \ Xdpyinfo | egrep "version:|dimensions|depth of" \ Grep VGA /proc/pci || lspci | grep VGA | colrm 1 4 \ This is the current version of the script: But see the FAQ before emailing to complain that you think glxgears sucks as a benchmark. If you can propose something better that will run on as many systems without needing to download and compile special benchmarking tools, please let us know. But it is readily available on almost every computer running Xorg and provides an interesting, if non-accurate baseline for comparing hardware. It's been compared to bogomips for graphics cards. We are aware glxgears isn't intended as a benchmark. This script uses glxgears to get a frame rate for 3D rendering. To gather the results in the table below, a simple shell script was proposed Henrik Carlqvist in a comp.os.linux.hardware discussion and subsequently revised by Michael Mauch and others. We also provide performance information for cards that rely solely on software emulation for 3D support.Ĭurrently Recommended Card for Best 3D Performance It provides information about video cards with 3D acceleration support and benchmarks to give an idea of their performance. This website was created for those of us who prefer to use only Free Software or Open Source software. X.Org includes Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) support for a variety of 3D graphics hardware but often doesn't support every feature or doesn't offer performance as fast as that of the proprietary drivers.
Some users opt to install proprietary graphics card drivers because of the limited support available in current free software drivers.
It can be frustrating for Free Software users to buy a new graphics card because there is very little information available about 3D/OpenGL graphics support and performance in the Free Software community. This page grew out of a conversation on the Usenet comp.os.linux.hardware newsgroup.