Benchmarking

This article Article description::describes various methods of system benchmarking on Linux. It covers CPUs, power usage, RAM, and graphics.

Power usage
can guess the computer's current power usage in watts.

Warsow
Warsow is great game and decent openGL benchmark. Its based to Qfusion engine which supports Normal Mapping, GLSL shaders (including bump mapping and cel shading) and much more.

Configure for benchmarking
Start warsow to create directory.

Benchmark
The possible profiles are high+, high, medium, low, ultralow.

Reset default options
If you have played nexuiz you should reset to default options for canonical benchmark results.

Reset
If you have played Xonotic you should reset to default options for canonical benchmark results.

Install
Now select benchmarking profile by running glmark2 or glmark2-drm, glmark2-es2, glmark2-es2-drm. For wayland you can run glmark2-es2-wayland or glmark2-wayland.

glxgears
Obtain by emerging.

External resources

 * http://lbs.sourceforge.net/ - A SourceForge site dedicated to listing benchmark utilities for Linux.