LKBEN11210: Howto make a quick performance test for your graphics card under linux

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Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Symptom

You would like to know some performance data from your graphics card

Cause

Everybody wants to know this from time to time...

Solution

To quickly check some performance data from your graphics card, you can use glxgears or glmark2.

To have more extensive performance tests you can install the phoronix test suite. This is more complex to use but will give you better results.


About the Author

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.

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