benchmarking softwareI

Moebius · 01-26-2004, 05:03 AM

I just got a spiffy new AMD64 system with Mandrake 9.2 AMD64 on it and I'm curious to see how fast it actually is. What is a good, simple, graphical benchmarking program i should try. Maybe also something that will test the 3D engine? I quite liked 3DMark 2001 in Windows.

Thanks.

Bruce Hill · 01-26-2004, 05:24 AM

The only thing I know of that will test 3D is glxgears. This will give you the FPS
or your vid card. The program top gives a lot of information, though you'd have
to read man top to learn more about it. You can use either of those just by typing
the name in a terminal like so ->
$ glxgears
$ top

Moebius · 01-26-2004, 05:42 AM

Hmmm glxgears is kinda what I'm looking for, but its pretty simple. Plus i don't know what to compare it to.

top looks like a process viewer. Isn't there something that the overclockers and such use to see how far they can push their system?

Thanks for the help.

hw-tph · 01-26-2004, 07:11 AM

A quick and dirty way of getting the perceived performance of a system is doing a simple cat /proc/cpuinfo which will return a host of info on the CPU(s) in the system. The last entry - bogomips - is what's important to you. The name implies that benchmarking is a whole lot of bull and marketing anyway, sort of like IQ tests.

Code:

hw@baron:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep bogo
bogomips        : 716.80

That's my trusty 366MHz laptop. LOL

Håkan

hw-tph · 01-26-2004, 07:14 AM

More stuff on freshmeat.net:

http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=bench...jects&x=6&y=11

Håkan