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What is a good way to benchmark test a GPU in Linux? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you know what the browser test is called or how to run it?

I didn't run glxgears and I did run glmark2 yesterday but I stopped it half way through. If I remember correctly, the frame rates from the test ranged from 80 to over 1000 fps depending on the test but I have no idea if that's good for the GPU or bad because I don't remember the results I got on my old computer. If someone knows GPUs well enough, my old GPU was an intel HD Graphics 3000 and the GPU in this computer is an AMD Radeon R2 Graphics.

Also, I looked into Phoronix but it looks like it just benchmarks CPUs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I did find it but it is just a VSYNC test thing. Not sure how to diagnose these things. The only time I had major issues was when I installed the wrong drivers, so user error. Maybe the distro you're using has an IRC or Matrix chat room that would be willing to help out?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm using Linux Mint and I'm just using the drivers that were preinstalled by the distro. If it's possible that Mint installed the wrong drivers somwhow, I wouldn't know where to look to get help with that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It might be using the integrated GPU...

Try and install lshw and run sudo lshw -numeric -C display and give us the output.

Edit...

Or glxinfo | grep "OpenGL vendor|OpenGL renderer"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just tried glxinfo but it didn't do anything and unless it's called something else, apt can't locate the package.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think it is in the mesa-utils package but that doesn't matter...your other answer provided some more info

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It is using the integrated GPU, it's a laptop that only has an integrated GPU. Also, lshw is having the same problem it had with my old computer, where it doesn't seem to list the right clock speed and just says it's running at 33Mhz. I know this is wrong because on my old computer, other software would state the clock speed was much higher. But another thing I'm noticing that's wrong is the GPU is listed as an R3 when the GPU is actually an R2, so unless they share drivers, It's possible that Mint (I'm using Linux Mint) installed the wrong drivers.

  *-display                 
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Mullins [Radeon R3 Graphics] [1002:9850]
       vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] [1002]
       physical id: 1
       bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
       logical name: /dev/fb0
       version: 40
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb
       configuration: depth=32 driver=radeon latency=0 resolution=1366,768
       resources: irq:38 memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f07fffff ioport:4000(size=256) memory:f0d00000-f0d3ffff memory:c0000-dffff
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was kinda hoping I'd see something obvious but I am not a great troubleshooter, more of try things to see what works...

You can still use the Phoronix thing for testing the GPU:

But perhaps something else is interfering.

What does sudo apt list --installed | grep -i radeon show?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unigine-heaven was available by itself and it worked but I've never benchmark tested anything before. 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?

Also that command returns this: `WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

libdrm-radeon1/jammy-updates,now 2.4.113-2~ubuntu0.22.04.1 amd64 [installed] xserver-xorg-video-radeon/jammy-updates,now 1:19.1.0-2ubuntu1 amd64 [installed] `

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

🤷‍♂️ all I can say is the drivers are installed.

Perhaps there is a Xorg option that needs to be modified or set a kernel parameter. Sorry I can't help anymore.

Even though it is Mint, the advice on the ArchWiki might help you out.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU#Loading says that it should use the amdgpu driver so that is something to look into.

Good luck!