Benchmarks

[Zema Bus]

I wanted some benchmarks that run in Linux so I could benchmark my AI machine. I came across the Unigine benchmarks, they have five of them. It turns out the Heaven one is the same one Steve of Gamers Nexus likes to use. It's pretty cool, I like the music that goes along with it. They show the three most recent ones on their site, but under the Benchmarks menu there are two more, listed as "legacy" (from 2007 / 2008). I haven't looked at all of them yet, just Heaven and ValleY.

[Grogan]

I think those are a bit old, for what graphics cards are optimized to do nowadays with modern shaders and stuff. I've used both of those, Heaven and Valley in the past. Nowadays to me, the best benchmark is "play games" and if it doesn't suck, it's good

I liked those for testing video cards/drivers when working on computers too.

[Zema Bus]

This benchmark is from 2019 I think. I only did one run. It did peg my GPU.

It ID's it as an RX 7800 XT but it's an RX 7700 XT

Superposition_benchmark_Radeon_RX7700XT.jpg

Superposition_benchmark_Nvidia3090.jpg

[Grogan]

It's 2017, still pretty old opengl. A better test of the radeon cards would be a Vulkan benchmark of some sort, since that's where a lot of the work is going. Hell, it's common to translate opengl to vulkan (Zink) nowadays, even.

I got about the same, on similar hardware (7700 card). I watched it and it was smooth graphics though, even when the FPS dropped around 60. That's what really counts.

uniginesuperpos.jpg

P.S. Look how low the GPU temps are, in both your radeon 7700 benchmark and mine. That tells me that the benchmark is not even utilizing the GPU to its full capacity.

[Grogan]

I was going to try vkmark, from Michael Phoronix (openbenchmarks) but of course, it's too onerous to compile. I'd have to add some libglm and libasschimp (libassimp) and then if I did, you wouldn't, so it's impractical.

So, Gravitymark, then

https://gravitymark.tellusim.com/

Download Linux binary, GravityMark_1.89.run, chmod 755, then ./GravityMark_1.89.run to extract it to GravityMark_1.89_linux in the CWD etc. like you'd expect.

The first thing it's going to do is pop up a browser interface (run_browser.sh) which you can use to configure the test, or just run ./run_fullscreen_vk.sh from the directory

When the test completes, click Save and it will deposit a .png in your home directory (a full screen one, I chopped it)

Normal, (./run_fullscreen_vk.sh)

gravitymarkvkfull.jpg

This utilized my GPU at 95-100%. The temps still stayed in the 50's though, I guess these cards have pretty good cooling.

I'll try the RT benchmark next.

Raytracing (./run_fullscreen_vk_rt.sh)

gravitymark_rt.jpg

This OpenGL benchmark used my GPU to 100%, and my GPU fan ramped up around 2000 RPM (but temp still stayed around 53C max)

./run_fullscreen_gl.sh

gravitymarkgl.jpg

[Zema Bus]

Thanks Grogan

[Zema Bus]

I finally got around to this. I ran them both full screen.

GravityMark_Radeon_RX7700XT.jpg

GravityMark_GeForce_RTX3090.jpg

[Grogan]

That's pretty good for higher resolution

[Zema Bus]

I decided to re-run them at 1920x1080. Then I went back to 2560x1440, once you've had a taste of higher resolution it's hard to go back to 1920x1080

GravityMark_Radeon_RX7700XT_1920x1080.jpg

GravityMark_GeForce_RTX3090_1920x1080.jpg

I forgot that you did some additional ones with OpenGL and ray tracing, I'll do that later.

[Grogan]

Nvidia probably still has better OpenGL, and the 3090 is a beefier card than the AMD 7700's so it should be significantly higher.

It would also be interesting to see how close amdgpu is to Nvidia on ray tracing these days. Of course the Nvidia 3090 is a beefier card and is going to do better than the AMD 7700, but it should at least be viable.

[Zema Bus]

The 9070 did better than I thought, I'd say mission accomplished

GravityMark_Radeon_RX9070XT_Vulkan.jpg

GravityMark_Radeon_RX9070XT_Vulkan-RT.jpg

GravityMark_Radeon_RX9070XT_OpenGL.jpg

[Grogan]

So probably about 40% better, overall, with the new card.

That's just benchmarks though, and testing one pattern. Play some games!

[Zema Bus]

That's the plan